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2 Chronicles 4:21 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 21. 21And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence: “And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Gold vessels complete the sanctuary inventory.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 4:19–22
Read 2 Chronicles 4:21 with 4:19–22. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: The altar, bread tables, lampstands, flowers, lamps, tongs, basins, spoons, censers, and doors are completed in gold.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 4:21 depends on 4:19–22; isolating “And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Gold vessels complete the sanctuary inventory.”
Read 2 Chronicles 4:19–22 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 4:19–22 forms the complete movement “Gold vessels complete the sanctuary inventory”: The altar, bread tables, lampstands, flowers, lamps, tongs, basins, spoons, censers, and doors are completed in gold.
Verse 19. 19 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;
Verse 20. 20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
Verse 21. 21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;
Verse 22. 22 And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.
Continue in Context
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Read 2 Chronicles 4:19–22 — Gold vessels complete the sanctuary inventorySources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Chronicles 4:19–22, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
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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 4:19–22
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