2 Crônicas 3

2 Crônicas 3

Henry: The dimensions of it, in which Solomon was instructed (2Chr 3:3), as he was in other things, by his father. This was the foundation (so it may be read) which Solomon laid for the building of the house. This was the rule he went by, so many cubits the length and breadth, after the first measure, that is, according to the measure first fixed, which there was no reason to make any alteration of when the work came to be done; for the dimensions were given by divine wisdom, and what God does shall be for ever; nothing can be put to it, or taken from it, Eccl. 3:14. His first measure will be the last. 2 Chronicles 3:4 The porch which was in front of the house was as long as the width of the house, twenty cubits, and the height 120; and inside he overlaid it with pure gold. the porch: Joh 10:23 Ac 3:11 5:12 an hundred and twenty (KJV): As the height of the temple was only thirty cubits, 120 seems too great a height for the porch; but the Syriac, Arabic, and the LXX. in the codex Alexandrinus, have only twenty, probably reading, instead of {maiah weesrim,} "one hundred and twenty," {ammoth esrim,} "twenty cubits;" which brings it within the proportion of the other measures. GOD'S FRONT PORCH The porch which was in front of the house was as long as the width of the house, twenty cubits, and the height 120; and inside he overlaid it with pure gold. Believer's Study Bible - This is undoubtedly a later scribal inadvertency and should read "twenty cubits" in height instead of "one hundred and twenty" (cf. 1 Ki 6:2, where the height of the entire building is given as 30 cubits). Ryrie Study Bible- Some mss. read, as here, 120 cubits, making the tower about 180-209 ft (55-64 m) high. But some think this is a copyist's error and should read "twenty cubits" (30-35 ft, or #9-10.6 m) high. (BORROW Ryrie Study Bible) Bob