2 Crónicas 3

Construcción del templo

1 Salomón comenzó a construir el templo del SEÑOR en el monte Moria, en Jerusalén, donde el SEÑOR se le había aparecido a su padre David. Lo construyó en el lugar que David había destinado, esto es, en la parcela de Arauna,^[a] el jebuseo.

2 La construcción la comenzó el día dos del mes segundo del cuarto año de su reinado.

3 Salomón determinó que los cimientos del templo de Dios fueran de veintisiete metros de largo por nueve metros de ancho.^[b]

4 El vestíbulo de la nave medía lo mismo que el ancho del templo, es decir, también medía nueve metros de largo, y nueve metros de alto. Por dentro, Salomón lo recubrió de oro puro.

5 Recubrió la nave central con paneles de madera de ciprés, sobre los cuales colocó figuras de palmeras y cadenas de oro fino.

6 El templo lo adornó con piedras preciosas y con oro de Parvayin.

7 En el interior del templo recubrió de oro las vigas, los umbrales, las paredes y las puertas, y en las paredes esculpió querubines.

8 Salomón hizo también el Lugar Santísimo, el cual medía lo mismo que el ancho del templo, es decir, nueve metros de largo y nueve metros de ancho. Lo recubrió por dentro con veintitrés toneladas^[c] de oro fino.

9 Cada clavo de oro pesaba medio kilo.^[d] También recubrió de oro las habitaciones superiores.

10 En el Lugar Santísimo mandó tallar dos querubines, y los recubrió de oro.

11 Las alas de los querubines medían nueve metros de largo. Cada una de las alas del primer querubín medía dos metros con veinticinco centímetros; una de ellas tocaba la pared interior de la habitación, y la otra rozaba el ala del segundo querubín.

12 Cada una de las alas del segundo querubín también medía dos metros con veinticinco centímetros; una de ellas tocaba la pared interior de la habitación, y la otra rozaba el ala del primer querubín.

13 Los querubines estaban de pie, con el rostro hacia la nave, y sus alas extendidas medían en total nueve metros.

14 La cortina la hizo de púrpura, carmesí, escarlata y lino, y sobre ella mandó bordar querubines.

15 En la fachada del templo levantó dos columnas de dieciséis metros de altura, y el capitel que coronaba cada columna medía más de dos metros;

16 además, mandó hacer unas cadenas trenzadas^[e] y las colocó en lo alto de las columnas; hizo también cien granadas, y las intercaló entre las cadenas.

17 Levantó las columnas en la fachada del templo, una en el lado sur y otra en el lado norte. A la primera la nombró Jaquín, y a la segunda, Boaz.

2 Crónicas 3 Commentary

Chapter 3

The building of the temple.

- There is a more particular account of the building of the ( 1 Kings 6 ) not only which he had purchased, but which he had fixed on by Divine direction. Full instructions enable us to go about our work with certainty and to proceed therein with comfort. Blessed be God, the Scriptures are enough to render the man of God thoroughly furnished for every good work. Let us search the Scriptures daily, beseeching the Lord to enable us to understand, believe, and obey his word, that our work and our way may be made plain, and that all may be begun, continued, and ended in him. Beholding God, in Christ, his true Temple, more glorious than that of Solomon's, may we become a spiritual house, a habitation of God through the Spirit.

Footnotes

• [a]. "Arauna" . Lit. "Ornán " (variante de este nombre).
• [b]. En los capítulos 3 al 6, las medidas de longitud se han convertido al sistema métrico, sin explicación en las notas.
• [c]. "veintitrés toneladas" . Lit. "seiscientos talentos" .
• [d]. "medio kilo" . Lit. "cincuenta siclos" .
• [e]. "trenzadas" . Alt. "asociadas con el santuario" .

Chapter Summary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 3 & 4

These two chapters give an account of the building of the temple, of the materials, parts, and form of it, and of things belonging to it, and which agrees with 1Ki 6:1-7:51 see the notes there; only here, 1Ch 3:1, mention is made of the particular place where it was built, Mount Moriah; of which see the notes on Ge 22:2, 1Ch 22:1. The dimensions of the house, as the Targum rightly explains, 2Ch 3:3, are said to be after the first measure, either of that of the tabernacle by Moses, or rather of that of the pattern David gave to Solomon, 1Ch 28:11, though some understand it of the greater cubit: the holy place is called the greater house, 2Ch 3:5, being twice as long as the holy of holies; in 2Ch 3:6, we are informed what the precious stones were for, which David and his princes gave for the temple, 1Ch 29:2,8, that they were to decorate the house; and also what sort of gold was used in overlaying it, gold of Parvaim, which some interpret of Peru {h}, in America; but it is a question whether that was then known, or, if it was, must go by another name, since Peru is a late name given by the Spaniards, at their conquest of it. Bochart {i} takes it to be Taprobane, an island in the Indian sea, as if it was Taph Parvan or Provan, the shore of Parvan. Kircher {k} is of opinion it is the same with Javaim, the isles of Java in the same sea, from whence was gold, which is not very likely. Waserus {l} thinks Parvaim is the name of a town which is by Pliny {m} corruptly called Parbacia, which was in the land of Havilah, or the kingdom of the Charazenes, where was the best gold, Ge 2:11,12 though others suppose it to be the same with Ophir, by removing the first letter of the word, to which Pfeiffer {n} inclines, and is as probable as any; and much more probable than what the Jews {o} say, that this gold was so called, because it was red like the blood of "parim", oxen: in 2Ch 3:8, the quantity of gold, with which the most holy place was overlaid, is given, six hundred talents: of which \\see Gill on "1Ki 6:21"\\, In 2Ch 3:9 we read of the nails with which the plates of gold were fastened to the boards, nowhere else mentioned, except in the Vulgate Latin version of 1Ki 6:21, "he fastened the plates with golden nails"; which version perhaps is most correct; the weight of which were fifty shekels of gold; that is, according to the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, each nail weighed so much, which amounted to seventy five pounds of our money {p}. Eupolemus, an Heathen writer {q} speaks of these nails, which he makes to be silver ones; and says they were of the weight of a talent, in the form of a woman's breast, and in number four, with which the plates of gold were fastened, which were of five cubits; I suppose he means there were four of these nails in every plate of five cubits: in 2Ch 4:1 an account is given of an "altar of brass", made by Solomon, we have not elsewhere, only referred to 1Ki 8:64, 9:25 whether this was only covered with brass, as that made by Moses was, as some {r} think; or whether of massy brass, as Dr. Lightfoot {s} because not to be removed as that was, is not certain; the altar of the second temple was of stones unpolished, according to the Misnah {t}, with which agrees

``46 And laid up the stones in the mountain of the temple in a convenient place, until there should come a prophet to shew what should be done with them. 47 Then they took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar according to the former;'' (1 Maccabees 4)

and so Philo {u}: "twenty cubits was the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof"; it was four times as big in its square as that of Moses, and three times higher, and a cubit over, \\see Gill on "Ex 27:1"\\. Hecataeus {w}, an Heathen writer, speaks of this altar as four square, and made of whole and unpolished stones, each side of which was twenty cubits, but the height of it he makes to be twelve cubits, in which he mistakes. It weighed, according to Jacob Leon {x} 7000 arobas of brass, each aroba containing twenty five pounds. The rest of the chapter agrees with the account in the book of Kings.

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{h} Erasm. Schmid. de America Orat. ad Calc. Pindar. p. 261. Montani Phaleg. in Calc. Jac. Capellus in loc. {i} Phaleg. l. 2. c. 27. & Canaan, l. 1. c. 46. col. 692. Braunius de Vest. Sacred. Heb. p. 221. {k} Prodrom. Copt. c. 4. p. 119. {l} De Antiqu. Num. Heb. l. 1. c. 6. {m} Nat. Hist l. 6. c. 28. {n} Difficil. Script. Sacr. cent. 3. loc. 16. p. 247. {o} T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 45. 1. Hieros. Yoma, fol. 41. 4. Shemot Rabba, sect. 39. fol. 136. 4. {p} Brerewood de Ponder. &c. c. 5. {q} Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 34. p. 450. {r} Cunaeus de Rep. Heb. l. 2. c. 5. {s} Prospect of the Temple, ch. 34. p. 2029. So Villalpandus. {t} Middot, c. 3. sect. 4. {u} De Victimis, p. 850. {w} Apud Euseb. Evangel. Praepar. l. 9. c. 4. p. 408. {x} Relation of Memorable Things in the Temple, ch. 4. p. 20. 19189-950107-1827-2Ch3.2