--- title: "Clarke" description: "Verse 2 Chronicles 3:1. In Mount Moriah — Supposed to be the same place where Abraham was about to offer his son Isaac; so the Targum: \"Solomon began to b" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/2-chronicles/3" --- Verse [2 Chronicles 3:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/3/1). ***In Mount Moriah*** — Supposed to be the same place where Abraham was about to offer his son Isaac; so the Targum: "Solomon began to build the house of the sanctuary of the Lord at Jerusalem, in the place where Abraham had prayed and worshipped in the name of the Lord. This is the place of the earth where all generations shall worship the Lord. Here Abraham was about to offer his son Isaac for a burnt-offering; but he was snatched away by the WORD of the Lord, and a ram placed in his stead. Here Jacob prayed when he fled from the face of Esau his brother; and here the angel of the Lord appeared to David, at which time David built an altar unto the Lord in the threshing-floor which he bought from Araunah the Jebusite." Verse [2 Chronicles 3:3](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/3/3). ***The length - after the first measure was threescore**********cubits*** — It is supposed that the *first measure* means the cubit used in the time of *Moses*, contradistinguished from that used in *Babylon*, and which the Israelites used after their return from captivity; and, as the books of Chronicles were written after the captivity, it was necessary for the writer to make this remark, lest it should be thought that the measurement was by the Babylonish cubit, which was a *palm* or *one-sixth* shorter than the cubit of Moses. See the same distinction observed by Ezekiel, [Ezekiel 40:5](../../../kjv/ezekiel/40/5); [Ezekiel 43:13](../../../kjv/ezekiel/43/13). Verse [2 Chronicles 3:4](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/3/4). ***The height was a hundred and twenty*** — Some think this should be *twenty* only; but if the same building is spoken of as in [1 Kings 6:2](../../../kjv/1-kings/6/2), the height was only *thirty cubits*. *Twenty* is the reading of the *Syriac*, the *Arabic,* and the *Septuagint* in the *Codex Alexandrinus*. The MSS. give us no help. There is probably a mistake here, which, from the similarity of the letters, might easily occur. The words, as they now stand in the Hebrew text, are מאה ואשרים *meah veesrim, one hundred and* *twenty*. But probably the letters in מאה *meah, a hundred*, are transposed for אמה *ammah, a cubit*, if, therefore, the א *aleph* be placed after the מ *mem*, then the word will be מאה *meah one* *hundred*; if *before* it the word will be אמה *ammah, a cubit*; therefore אמה עשרים *ammah esrim* will be *twenty cubits*; and thus the *Syriac, Arabic*, and *Septuagint* appear to have read. This will bring it within the proportion of the other measures, but a *hundred and twenty* seems too great a height. Verse [2 Chronicles 3:6](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/3/6). ***Gold of Parvaim.*** — We know not what this place was; some think it is the same as *Sepharvaim*, a place in *Armenia* or *Media*, conquered by the king of Assyria, [2 Kings 17:24](../../../kjv/2-kings/17/24), c. Others, that it is *Taprobane*, now the island of *Ceylon*, which *Bochart* derives from *taph*, signifying the border, and *Parvan*, i.e., *the coast of* *Parvan*. The rabbins say that it was gold of a *blood-red* colour, and had its name from פרים *parim, heifers*, being like to *bullocks'* *blood*. The *Vulgate* translates the passage thus: *Stravit quoque* *pavimentum templi pretiosissimo marmore, decore multo porro aurum* *erat probatissimum*; "And he made the pavement of the temple of the most precious marble; and moreover the gold was of the best quality," &c. Verse [2 Chronicles 3:9](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/3/9). ***The weight of the nails*****was*****fifty shekels*** — *Bolts* must be here intended, as it should be preposterous to suppose *nails* of nearly *two pounds'* weight. ***The supper chambers*** — Probably the *ceiling* is meant. Verse [2 Chronicles 3:17](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/3/17). ***He reared up the pillars*** — "The name of that on the right hand was *Jachin*, because the kingdom of the house of David was *established*; and the name of the left was *Boaz*, from the name of *Boaz* the patriarch of the family of Judah, from whom all the kings of the house of Judah have descended." - *Targum*. 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