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2 Chronicles 4:1

2 Chronicles 4:1
Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

See Introduction to Chapter 4

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Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

The supplementary character of Chronicles is here once more apparent. The author of Kings had omitted to record the dimensions of the brass altar. It stood in the great court 2Ch 6:12-13.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

2 Chronicles 4:1-10

David often speaks with much affection both of the house of the Lord and of the courts of our God. Both without doors and within there was that which typified the grace of the gospel and shadowed out…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

2Ch 4:1. The Altar of Brass

1. twenty cubits The measurements of the altar belonging to Solomon's Temple are not given in 1 Kings; but in Exo 38:1 the altar made in the wilderness is described as…