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2 Chronicles 4:19
Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of God: the golden altar; the tables on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records Solomon's completion of the temple's sacred furnishings immediately after noting the unmeasurable quantity of bronze used in the preceding verse.
The words — The Hebrew verb וַ/יַּ֣עַשׂ (va/Ya'as) translates literally as "and he made," directly attributing the crafting of all the articles (כָּל־הַ/כְּלִים) to Solomon for the house of God.
The thread — This inventory links to the prescribed table for the Bread of the Presence and the altar of incense outlined in Exodus 25:23 and Exodus 30:1, while the golden altar later appears in Revelation 9:13.
Why it lands — The text documents the physical execution of sanctuary objects, requiring the reader to observe the deliberate fulfillment of architectural instructions before considering later theological applications.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set;
Cross-references
- Revelation 9:13 Then the sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God
- Exodus 25:23 You are also to make a table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
- Exodus 30:1 “You are also to make an altar of acacia wood for the burning of incense.
- Exodus 37:25 He made the altar of incense out of acacia wood. It was square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high. Its horns were of one piece.
- Leviticus 24:5 You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
- 1 Kings 7:48 Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;
- 2 Kings 24:13 As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 25:13 Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.
- 1 Chronicles 28:16 the weight of gold for each table of showbread, and of silver for the silver tables;
- 2 Chronicles 4:8 Additionally, he made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold bowls.