Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 4:6
He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea [was] for the priests to wash in.
6 (cp. 2Ch 4:14 and 1Ki 7:38-39). The Lavers
6. such things as they offered for the burnt offering ] R.V. such things as belonged to the burnt offering. The lavers were mounted on bases; cp. 2Ch 4:14.
for the priests ] Cp. Exo 30:18-21; Exo 38:8; Exo 40:30-32.
7 (= 1Ki 7:49). The Golden Candlesticks
ten candlesticks ] Rather, the ten lamp-stands; cp. Exo 40:4.
according to their form ] R.V. according to the ordinance concerning them; cp. Exo 25:31-37; Exo 40:4.
in the temple ] In 1Ki 7:49 more precisely, before the oracle, i.e. before the Holy of Holies.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 6. He made also ten lavers] The lavers served to wash the different parts of the victims in; and the molten sea was for the use of the priests. In this they bathed, or drew water from it for their personal purification.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Ten lavers; of which see 1Ki 7:38, &c.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
6. ten lavers(See on 1Ki7:27). The laver of the tabernacle had probably been destroyed.The ten new ones were placed between the porch and the altar, andwhile the molten sea was for the priests to cleanse their hands andfeet, these were intended for washing the sacrifices.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
[See comments on 2Ch 3:1].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
The ten lavers which, according to 1Ki 7:38, stood upon ten brazen stands, i.e., chests provided with carriage wheels. These stands, the artistic work on which is circumstantially described in 1Ki 7:27-37, are omitted in the Chronicle, because they are merely subordinate parts of the lavers. The size or capacity of the lavers is not stated, only their position on both sides of the temple porch, and the purpose for which they were designed, “to wash therein, viz., the work of the burnt-offering (the flesh of the burnt-offering which was to be burnt upon the altar) they rinsed therein,” being mentioned. For details, see in 1Ki 7:38. and the figure in my Archaol. i. plate iii. fig. 4. Occasion is here taken to mention in a supplementary way the use of the brazen sea.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
THE TEN LAVERS: THEIR USE, AND THAT OF THE SEA
(2Ch. 4:6). (Comp. 1Ki. 7:27-39.)
(6) The chronicler now returns to his abbreviating style, and omits altogether the description of the ten bases, or stands, upon which the lavers were placed, and which are described in full and curious detail in 1Ki. 7:27-39. The unusual difficulty of the passage may have determined the omission, but it seems more likely that the sacred writer thought the bases of less importance than the objects described in 2Ch. 4:7-9, the account of which he has interpolated between the first and second half of 1Ki. 7:39.
He made also ten lavers.And he made ten pans. The word kyr is used in 1Sa. 2:14 as a pan for cooking, and in Zec. 12:6 as a pan holding fire. Its meaning here and in the parallel place is a pan for washing. (Comp. Exo. 30:18; Exo. 30:28.) The LXX. renders , baths; the Syriac, laqn, flagons (lagenae, ).
To wash in them.This statement, and, indeed, the rest of the verse is peculiar to the chronicler. On the other hand, 1Ki. 7:38 specifies the size and capacity of the lavers here omitted.
Such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them.This gives the meaning. Literally, the work (comp. Exo. 29:36, to do being equivalent to to offer) of the burnt offering they used to rinse (strictly, thrust, plunge) in them.
But the sea was for the priests to wash in.The Hebrew words have been transposed apparently. The same infinitive (lrohh) occurs in Exo. 30:18; Exo. 40:30, in a similar context. Instead of all this, the Syriac and Arabic versions read: put them five on the right hand and five on the left, that the priests might wash in them their hands and their feet, which appears to be derived from Exo. 30:19; Exo. 40:31.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Observe, how all must be particular and express in pointing to gospel mercies. All must be washed, both priests, people, and sacrifices: for nothing but the blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin. 1Jn 1:7 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
2Ch 4:6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea [was] for the priests to wash in.
Ver. 6. He made also ten lavers. ] See on 1Ki 7:37 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
offered = offered up. Hebrew. ‘alah. App-43.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
ten lavers: Exo 30:18-21, 1Ki 7:38, 1Ki 7:40, Psa 51:2, 1Co 6:11, 1Jo 1:7
such things as they offered for the burnt offering: Heb. the work of burnt offering, Lev 1:9, Lev 1:13, Eze 40:38
but the sea: 2Ch 4:2, Exo 29:4, Heb 9:14, Heb 9:23, Rev 1:5, Rev 1:6, Rev 7:14
Reciprocal: 1Ki 7:26 – it contained 1Ki 7:39 – he set 2Ch 4:14 – lavers Jer 52:19 – and the candlesticks