2 Chronicles 3:16
And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
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Barnes' Notes
As in the oracle - This passage is probably corrupt. Our translators supposing that a single letter had fallen out at the beginning of the word translated “in the oracle,” supplied “as.” But we have…
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Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
he made chains, as in the oracle R.V. he made chains in the oracle. The words, in the oracle, though found in LXX., are probably a gloss introduced from 1Ki 6:21 (chains … before the oracle). The…