2 Chronicles 4:20
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New International Version (©2011)
the lampstands of pure gold with their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;

New Living Translation (©2007)
the lampstands and their lamps of solid gold, to burn in front of the Most Holy Place as prescribed;

English Standard Version (©2001)
the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to burn before the inner sanctuary, as prescribed;

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
the lampstands with their lamps of pure gold, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary in the way prescribed;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to burn in front of the inner sanctuary according to specifications;

International Standard Version (©2012)
the lamp stands and their lamps made of pure gold to burn in front of the inner sanctuary, as required,

NET Bible (©2006)
the pure gold lampstands and their lamps which burned as specified at the entrance to the inner sanctuary,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
lamp stands and lamps of pure gold (to burn as directed in front of the inner room),

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Moreover the lampstands with their lamps, that they should burn in the prescribed manner before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold;

American King James Version
Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;

American Standard Version
and the candlesticks with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;

Douay-Rheims Bible
The candlesticks also of most pure gold with their lamps to give light before the oracle, according to the manner.

Darby Bible Translation
and the candlesticks with their lamps to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;

English Revised Version
and the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;

Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;

World English Bible
and the lampstands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;

Young's Literal Translation
and the candlesticks, and their lamps, for their burning according to the ordinance, before the oracle, of gold refined;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:1-22 The furniture of the temple. - Here is a further account of the furniture of God's house. Both without doors and within, there was that which typified the grace of the gospel, and shadowed out good things to come, of which the substance is Christ. There was the brazen altar. The making of this was not mentioned in the book of Kings. On this all the sacrifices were offered, and it sanctified the gift. The people who worshipped in the courts might see the sacrifices burned. They might thus be led to consider the great Sacrifice, to be offered in the fulness of time, to take away sin, and put an end to death, which the blood of bulls and goats could not possibly do. And, with the smoke of the sacrifices, their hearts might ascend to heaven, in holy desires towards God and his favour. In all our devotions we must keep the eye of faith fixed upon Christ. The furniture of the temple, compared with that of the tabernacle, showed that God's church would be enlarged, and his worshippers multiplied. Blessed be God, there is enough in Christ for all.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 20. - Candlesticks... lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle. Ten candlesticks, as we learn here and in ver. 7, supersede in Solomon's temple the one candlestick, with its central shaft lamp, and the three branch lamps on either side of Moses and the tabernacle (Exodus 25:31-37; Exodus 37:17-24; Leviticus 24:4; Josephus, 'Ant.,' 3:06. § 6, 7; Maimonides [1135-1205], "De temple, vasis sanctuarii," etc.). This single candlestick was restored in Zerubbabel's temple. The present ten candlesticks, or strictly candelabra, of Solomon are said at one time to have been placed in a row like a rail before the veil, and connected with a chain under which the high priest went on the Day of Atonement into the inner sanctuary. The removal of these candelabra is recorded Jeremiah 52:19. The expression, "after the manner," points to the various and somewhat minute regulation for the lighting, trimming, and keeping alight of the lamps, all or some, of the candelabra (Exodus 27:19-21; Leviticus 24:1-3). The use of the word for "lamp" (נֵר) in some passages (1 Samuel 3:3; 2 Samuel 21:17; Proverbs 13:9; Proverbs 20:27; Psalm 18:29)suggests not the part as used for the whole in speaking of the candelabrum, but more probably that the perpetual burning was not of all seven lamps, but of one, the central shaft.

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The Instruments of Gold
19And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables where on the show bread was set; 20Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold; 21And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;

Exodus 25:31 "Make a lampstand of pure gold. Hammer out its base and shaft, and make its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms of one piece with them.
2 Chronicles 4:21 the gold floral work and lamps and tongs (they were solid gold);
2 Chronicles 5:7 The priests then brought the ark of the LORD's covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.