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2 Crónicas 3:3

E estes foram os fundamentos que Salomo ps para edificar a casa de Deus: o comprimento em cvados, segundo a primeira medida, era de sessenta cvados, e a largura de vinte cvados.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Temple;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Weights and Measures;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Foundation;   Solomon;   Temple;   Weights and Measures;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Cubit;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Measures;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Building;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cubit;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Corner-Stone;   Weights and Measures;  

Parallel Translations

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Foram estas as medidas dos alicerces que Salomo lanou para edificar a Casa de Deus: o comprimento em cvados, segundo o primitivo padro, sessenta cvados, e a largura, vinte.
Almeida Revista e Corrigida
E estes foram os fundamentos que Salomo ps para edificar a Casa de Deus: o comprimento em cvados, segundo a medida primeira, de sessenta cvados, e a largura, de vinte cvados.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 2993-3000, bc 1011-1004

Solomon: 1 Chronicles 28:11-19

instructed: Heb. founded

The length: 1 Kings 6:2, 1 Kings 6:3

the first measure: It is supposed, with much probability, that the first measure means the cubit used in the time of Moses, contradistinguished from that used in Babylon, and which the Israelites used after their return from captivity: and, as these Books were written after the captivity, it was necessary for the writer to make this remark, lest it should be thought that the measurement was by the Babylonish cubit, which was a palm or one-sixth shorter than the cubit of Moses; which may serve to reconcile some variations in the historical books, with respect to numbers when applied to measures.

Reciprocal: Ezra 6:3 - the height Ezekiel 41:2 - the length

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The marginal “founded” gives a clue to another meaning of this passage, which may be translated: “Now this is the ground-plan of Solomon for the building, etc.”

Cubits after the first measure - i. e., cubits according to the ancient standard. The Jews, it is probable, adopted the Babylonian measures during the captivity, and carried them back into their own country. The writer notes that the cubit of which he here speaks is the old (Mosaic) cubit.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 3:3. The length - after the first measure was threescore cubits — It is supposed that the first measure means the cubit used in the time of Moses, contradistinguished from that used in Babylon, and which the Israelites used after their return from captivity; and, as the books of Chronicles were written after the captivity, it was necessary for the writer to make this remark, lest it should be thought that the measurement was by the Babylonish cubit, which was a palm or one-sixth shorter than the cubit of Moses. See the same distinction observed by Ezekiel, Ezekiel 40:5; Ezekiel 43:13.


 
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