B), oIJoo in Numbers, and twice in Chro- removal of these ce.ndefabra is recorded J er nicles. Another form of the same root, J~)I? Iii. 19. The expression "afterthemanner'; occurs twice in Bomuel, in the s11me sense of points to the various a~d somewhat minute "flesh-hook" (1 Som. ii. 13, 14), where olso regulation for the ligb ting trimming and its uso is mndo dramo.ticolly pin.in. Hurom keeping alight of the lamps: all or soU:e, of his father; i.e. his chief ortist. the candelabw (Exod. xxvii. 19-21; Lev. Ver. 17.-In the plain ... in the olay; xxiv. 1-3). The use of tho word for i.e. in the Ciccor (or round, equivalent to "lamp" (i.l) in some pMsages (1 Sam. iii, the New Testament "region round about") 3; 2 8am. xxi. 17; Prov. xiii. 9; xx. 27; of Jordan, e. distinctive designation of the Ps. xviii. 29) sugge~ts not the part as used Jordan volley (Conder's ' Handbook to the for the whole in speaking of the candelabrum Dible,' p. 213). The region here intended !rnt more probably that the perpetual bum: lies eost of the river, in what became the mg was not of all seven lamps, but of one division of Gad. Suoooth lay a little to the the central shaft. north of the river Jobbok, which flows al- Ver. 21.-The :fl.owers; Hebrew, n:,!:l, oc• most east to west into the Jordan. Zered- curring sixteen times, of which number it. is athah; i.q. Zarthan of 1 Kings vii. 46; and translated" flowers ".thirteen times," buds" this latter i~ in the Hebrew also the same twice, and "blossom" once. The flower was in characters and o.11 with the Zaretan of a part of the ornamentation of the branches Josh. iii. 16. Very possibly the plo.ce is the of the candelabrum (Exod. xxv. 31, 33). same aaZererath(Judg. vii. 22). The exact The tongs; Hebrew, □:l"]p.~q, occurring six sites of these places are not known, though times, of which number it is translated five the rnnge within which they all lay is clear times "tongs," but once "snuffers " (Exod. (see Grove's article in Smith's 'Bible Dic- xx.:xvii. 23). Thie latter is the correcter tionary,' iii. 1817). The ole.y ground; that translation, perhaps, The instrnment at is," the clay of the ground" (Hebrew). The any rate, was to trim the lamp-wicks (E;od. radical idea of the word here translated XXV. 38). "clay" is " thickness," which should not be Ver. 22.-The snuffers; Hebrew, niiJ?lt) rendered, as in margin, "thicknesses." The word (::i)!) occurs in all thirty-five times, and occnrring five times, and al ways translated " snuffers." A slightly different form of is rendered a large proportion of these times the word is translated" pruning-hooks" four "clouds" or'' thick clouds" (e.g. Exod. xix. times in the Prophets Isaiah, Joel, Micah. 9), clouds being presumably thickness68 in No doubt these snuj}ers were something dif- air; bnt if the subject-matter in question be ferent from the tongs of the preceding verse; in wood, or growing timber, or the ground, the use of one may have been rather to cut the word is rendered conforme.bly "thick the wicks, and the other to trim them. The planks " (I Kings vii. 6; Ezek. xii. 25, 26), spoons; Hebrew, 9?· This is the word used or" thickets" (Jer. iv. 29), or "clay" (as here), to distinguish from other lighter or so often for the "band," bnt the essential wore friable soil. idea of which is the hollow of either hand or Ver. 20.-Candlestioks . . , lamps, that foot or other thing, e.nd among other things they should burn after the manner before of a spoon shape. The word is used of the the oracle. Ten candlesticks, as we learn frankincense-cups (Numb. vii. 14, 20, 26) here and in ver. 7, supersede in Solomon's brought to the dedicotion of the tabernacle temple the one eondlestick, with its central by the several princes. The censers ; He- shaft lamp, and the three branch lamps on brew, nil'\T)t:1. These were "snuff-di.bes" eilher side of Moses and the tabernacle (Exod. xxv.-38; xxxvii. 23; Numb. iv. 9). (Exod. xxv. 31-37; xxxvii. 17-24; Lev. The entry of the house; Hebrew, n;-i!:l. Som0 xxiv. 4; Josephus, 'Ant.,' iii. 6. § 6, 7; think this word refers to the door}rames, as Maimonidee [1135-1205], ''De templo, ve.- distinct from the door-leaves or doors them- sis sanotuarii," etc.). This single candle- eel vos. But the parallel (1 Kings vii. 50) stick was restored in Zernbbabel's temple. gives us wha.t is translated us "hinges" The present ten candlesticks, or strictly can- (Hebrew, Ji!l), e. word that occurs only here delabra, of Solomon are said o.t one time to in any such sense, as presumably (Gesenius, have been placed in a row like e. re.ii before 'Lexicon') "the hollowed part of a hinge," the veil, and connected with e. chflin under and ls11,. iii. 17 for the pudenda muliebria. which the high priest went on the Do.y of Tho mistaken transcribing of I\ lcheth for a Atonement into the inner sanctuary. The tau will amply account for the difference.
HOMILETICS. Vere. 1-22.-The altar, the sea, the light, and the wead. The homiletics of this chapter, viewed in certain general aspects, have been already treated with those 46 THE SECOND BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES. [err. 1v. 1-22.