Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 28:15
Even the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the lamps thereof: and for the candlesticks of silver by weight, [both] for the candlestick, and [also] for the lamps thereof, according to the use of every candlestick.
15. even the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold ] R.V. by weight also for the candlesticks of gold, and for the lamps thereof, of gold.
of silver by weight, both for the candlestick, and also for the lamps thereof ] R.V. of silver, silver by weight for every candlestick and for the lamps thereof.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 15. For the candlesticks] There was but one chandelier in the tabernacle; there were ten in the temple. See 1Kg 7:49.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Whether they were large and fixed in one place, whereof there were ten in the holy place, 1Ki 7:49, or such as were less and loose to be carried from place to place, as need required.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
15, 16. the candlesticks ofsilverSolomon made them all of goldin this and a few minorparticulars departing from the letter of his father’s instructions,where he had the means of executing them in a more splendid style.There was only one candlestick and one table in the tabernacle, butten in the temple.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Even the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the lamps thereof,…. These candlesticks were ten, and each had seven lamps, and were placed five on one side the Mosaic candlestick, and five on the other, as say the Jews, see 1Ki 7:49, and the weight of gold for each candlestick, according to the above writer t, was one hundred pounds; and for both candlesticks and lamps, David, by the Spirit of God, was directed to give:
and for the candlesticks of silver, by weight, both for the candlestick, and also for the lamps thereof, according to the use of every candlestick; the weight of silver for them was fixed; of these nowhere else read. Kimchi thinks these were for the chambers of the priests, to give them light when they ate and lay there.
t Ibid. (Relation of Memorial Things in the Tabernacle and the Temple, ch. 4.) p. 20.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(15) Even the weight for the candlesticks of gold.Rather, and a (specified) weight for the golden lampstands, and their golden lamps, in the weight of each lampstand and its lamps; and (a weight) for the lampstands of silver by weight, for a lampstand and its lamps, according to the service of each lampstand. The meaning still is that David gave Solomon a description of the designated articles, fixing the proper weight for each. (Comp. Exo. 25:31 sqq., the great golden candelabrum of the Mosaic sanctuary.) No mention of the silver lampstands occurs anywhere else in the Old Testament. According to the Rabbis, they stood in the chambers of the priests.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
15, 16. The candlesticks of silver and the tables of silver are mentioned nowhere else. They were probably for the more private use of the priests and Levites.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
the candlesticks: Exo 25:31-39, 1Ki 7:19, 2Ch 4:7, Zec 4:2, Zec 4:3, Zec 4:11-14, Rev 1:12, Rev 1:13, Rev 1:20, Rev 2:1
Reciprocal: Exo 37:17 – the candlestick of Lev 24:4 – the pure
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ch 28:15-16. According to the use of every candlestick Whether they were to be fixed in one place, whereof there were ten in the holy place, or to be carried from place to place. Gold for the tables There were divers tables to be used about the show-bread; but one of them seems to have been of more eminence than the rest, and therefore it is commonly called the table of the show-bread, in the singular number.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
28:15 Even the weight for the {h} candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the lamps thereof: and for the candlesticks of silver by weight, [both] for the candlestick, and [also] for the lamps thereof, according to the use of every candlestick.
(h) That is, the ten candlesticks, 1Ki 7:49.