Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
2 Chronicles 3:4 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 4. 4And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
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Quick Meaning
Describes the porch dimensions and interior gold overlay.
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 3:1–3:9
Describes the porch dimensions and interior gold overlay. Read 2 Chronicles 3:4 within 3:1–3:9. The complete unit records: The temple site is linked with David and Ornan, dated to Solomon's fourth year, and described through dimensions, gold, wood, stone, and carved cherubim.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The building account connects Solomon's work to David's plague-ending altar while moving readers from political planning into sacred space. In this exact position, the line beginning “And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of…” describes the porch dimensions and interior gold overlay.
Follow the Context
- The temple site is linked with David and Ornan, dated to Solomon's fourth year, and described through dimensions, gold, wood, stone, and carved cherubim.
- The building account connects Solomon's work to David's plague-ending altar while moving readers from political planning into sacred space.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of…”
In plain language: Describes the porch dimensions and interior gold overlay.
The line beginning “And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of…” describes the porch dimensions and interior gold overlay.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
The site link does not authorize modern territorial seizure, archaeological overclaim, or the idea that costly decoration guarantees divine presence.
What Remains True
Describes the porch dimensions and interior gold overlay. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Faithful memory tells the truth about worship and power together: it preserves covenant hope while naming labor, victims, institutional limits, human agency, and uncertainty.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse describes the porch dimensions and interior gold overlay, keep it inside 3:1–3:9, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 2 Chronicles 3:4 describes the porch dimensions and interior gold overlay. Use 3:1–3:9, paraphrase “And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 2 Chronicles 3:1–3:9 — The temple rises on MoriahSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
2 Chronicles 3:4 remains within this thought-unit limit: The phrase about where the LORD appeared, the relation to Genesis 22, and the extraordinary porch height have textual and interpretive alternatives that should remain visible.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Chronicles 3:1–3:9, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 3:1–3:9
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Full Notes: 2 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 3:1–3:9, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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