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A Link to the Past
Commentators note that the Temple's veil was made with the exact same materials and design—including the cherubim—as the veil in Moses' Tabernacle. Scholars explain this detail, highlighted in Chronicles but absent in the book of Kings, shows a deliberate continuity in God's prescribed pattern for worship, connecting the permanent Temple to Israel's foundational experiences with God.
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2 Chronicles
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Chronicles 3:14
18th Century
Theologian
This is an important addition to the description in Kings, where the veil is not mentioned. It was made of exactly the same colors as the veil of t…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Chronicles 3:14
19th Century
Bishop
The veil. —The Pârôkheth, or curtain, which divided the holy place from the holy of holies, is not mentioned in the exist…
John Gill
On 2 Chronicles 3:14
17th Century
Pastor
(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 3:1).
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Matthew Henry
On 2 Chronicles 3:1–17
17th Century
Minister
A more detailed account of the building of the temple is found in 1 Kings 6. It was to be in the place David had prepared���not only the place he h…