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2 Chronicles 4:17

2 Chronicles 4:17
In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.

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Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Zeredathah - Or, Zarthan (marginal reference). The writer of Chronicles probably uses the name which the place bore in his own day.

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

In the clay ground - See on Kg1 7:46 (note). Some suppose that he did not actually cast those instruments at those places, but that he brought the clay from that quarter, as being the most proper for…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

2 Chronicles 4:11-22

We have here such a summary both of the brass-work and the gold-work of the temple as we had before (Kg1 7:13, etc.), in which we have nothing more to observe than, 1. That Huram the workman was very…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

in the clay ground G. A. Smith (Historical Geography, p. 488) speaks of traces of old brick-fields found by Sir C. Warren in the Jordan valley. Succothis perhaps Tell Deir -Alla, east of Jordan, north…

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