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2 Chronicles 4:19

Solomon made all the vessels that were in God’s house, the golden altar also, and the tables with the show bread on them;
2 Chronicles 4:19 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set;
  • BSB Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of God: the golden altar; the tables on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;
  • NKJV Thus Solomon had all the furnishings made for the house of God: the altar of gold and the tables on which was the showbread;
  • NASB Solomon also made all the things that were in the house of God: the golden altar, the tables with the bread of the Presence on them,
  • NLT Solomon also made all the furnishings for the Temple of God: the gold altar; the tables for the Bread of the Presence;

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Quick answer

Solomon completed all the gold furnishings for the temple's interior, including the golden altar and the tables for the show bread. It shows the lavish care given to every detail of God's house.

Overview

This verse summarizes the making of the sacred vessels for the temple's interior worship. The golden altar (the altar of incense) and the tables for the bread of the Presence continued the pattern given to Moses for the tabernacle. The costly materials reflected the worthiness of the God being worshiped, and these furnishings ultimately point forward to Christ, the true bread and our intercessor whose prayers rise like incense before God.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 19

  • Rev 9:13The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,
  • Dan 5:23but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
  • Ezra 1:7–11Also Cyrus the king brought out the vessels of Yahweh’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;
  • 2 Chr 36:18All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.
  • Dan 5:2–3Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.
  • 1 Chr 28:16and the gold by weight for the tables of show bread, for every table; and silver for the tables of silver;
  • Exod 30:1–10“You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.
  • 1 Kgs 7:48–50Solomon made all the vessels that were in Yahweh’s house: the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on, of gold;
  • Exod 25:23–30“You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its width, and one and a half cubits its height.
  • 2 Kgs 25:13–15The Chaldeans broke up the pillars of brass that were in Yahweh’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house, and carried the brass pieces to Babylon.
  • Lev 24:5–8“You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake.
  • Rev 8:3Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.
  • Jer 52:18–19They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered.
  • 2 Chr 36:10At the return of the year, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of Yahweh’s house, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
  • 2 Kgs 24:13He carried out from there all the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in Yahweh’s temple, as Yahweh had said.
  • Exod 37:25–29He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. It was square: its length was a cubit, and its width a cubit. Its height was two cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it.
  • 2 Chr 26:16–18But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.
  • 2 Chr 4:8He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold.
  • Jer 28:3Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon.

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Christ at the center

Temple, priesthood, and the repeated need for a faithful king who seeks the LORD all point past every imperfect reign to the King and Temple who finally and fully dwell with God's people.

How 2 Chronicles 4:19 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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