2 Chronicles 4:9
New International Version
He made the courtyard of the priests, and the large court and the doors for the court, and overlaid the doors with bronze.

New Living Translation
He then built a courtyard for the priests, and also the large outer courtyard. He made doors for the courtyard entrances and overlaid them with bronze.

English Standard Version
He made the court of the priests and the great court and doors for the court and overlaid their doors with bronze.

Berean Standard Bible
He made the courtyard of the priests and the large court with its doors, and he overlaid the doors with bronze.

King James Bible
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

New King James Version
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court and doors for the court; and he overlaid these doors with bronze.

New American Standard Bible
Then he made the courtyard of the priests and the great courtyard, and doors for the courtyard, and overlaid their doors with bronze.

NASB 1995
Then he made the court of the priests and the great court and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze.

NASB 1977
Then he made the court of the priests and the great court and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then he made the court of the priests and the great court and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze.

Amplified Bible
Moreover, he made the courtyard of the priests, and the great courtyard [for the people] and doors for the courtyard, and he overlaid their doors with bronze.

Christian Standard Bible
He made the courtyard of the priests and the large court, and doors for the court. He overlaid the doors with bronze.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He made the courtyard of the priests and the large court, and doors for the court. He overlaid the doors with bronze.

American Standard Version
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he made one great courtyard for the Priests and for the Levites, and he covered the doors and bars with brass.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Also he made the priests' court, and the great court, and doors to the court, and their panels were overlaid with brass.

Contemporary English Version
Solomon gave orders to build two courtyards: a smaller one that only priests could use and a larger one. The doors to these courtyards were covered with bronze.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He made also the court of the priests, and a great hall, and doors in the hall, which he covered with brass.

English Revised Version
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He also made the priests' courtyard and the large courtyard and its doors. He covered the doors with bronze.

Good News Translation
They made an inner courtyard for the priests, and also an outer courtyard. The doors in the gates between the courtyards were covered with bronze.

International Standard Version
He made the court of the priests, the great court, and doors for the court, overlaying their doors with bronze.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

Literal Standard Version
And he makes the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and he has overlaid their doors with bronze.

Majority Standard Bible
He made the courtyard of the priests and the large court with its doors, and he overlaid the doors with bronze.

New American Bible
He made the court of the priests and the great courtyard and the gates of the courtyard; the gates he covered with bronze.

NET Bible
He made the courtyard of the priests and the large enclosure and its doors; he plated their doors with bronze.

New Revised Standard Version
He made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court; he overlaid their doors with bronze.

New Heart English Bible
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze.

Webster's Bible Translation
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

World English Bible
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze.

Young's Literal Translation
And he maketh the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and their doors he hath overlaid with brass.

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Context
The Courts
9He made the courtyard of the priests and the large court with its doors, and he overlaid the doors with bronze. 10He put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.…

Cross References
1 Kings 6:36
Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.

2 Kings 21:5
In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.

2 Chronicles 33:5
In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.


Treasury of Scripture

Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

the court

1 Kings 6:36
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.

1 Kings 7:12
And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.

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(9) The court of the priests.--See 1Kings 6:36; 1Kings 7:12, "the inner court;" Jeremiah 36:10, "the higher court."

And the great court.--'Az?r?h, "court," a late word, common in the Targums for the classical h?q?r, which has just occurred. The 'az?r?h was the outer court of the temple. It is not mentioned at all in the parallel narrative. The LXX. calls it "the great court;" the Vulg., "the great basilica." The Syriac renders the whole verse: "And he made one great court for the priests and Levites, and covered the doors and bolts with bronze." (Comp. Note on 2Chronicles 4:3 for this plating of the doors with bronze.) The bronze plated doors of Shalmaneser's palace at Balawat were twenty-two feet high, and each leaf was six feet wide.

Verse 9. - The court of the priests (comp. 1 Kings 6:36, where this court is denominated the inner court, and any other court an outer one, i.e. the great court only implicated thereby). The construction of this court of the priests, withheld here, given there, leaves it ambiguous whether the "three rows of hewed stones and one row of cedar beams "intends a description of fence, as the Septuagint seems to have taken it, or of a higher floor with which the part in question was dignified. The citation Jeremiah 36:10, though probably pointing to this same court, can scarcely be adduced as any support of J. D. Michaelis' suggestion of this latter, as its עֶלְיון (translated "higher") does not really carry the idea of the comparative degree at all. For once that it is so translated (and even then probably incorrectly), there are twenty occurrences of it as the superlative excellentiae. The introduction just here of any statement of these courts at all, which seems at first inopportune, is probably accounted for by the desire to speak in this connection of their doors and the brass overlaying of them (1 Kings 7:12; 2 Kings 23:12; 2 Chronicles 20:5; Ezekiel 40:28; Condor's 'Handbook to the Bible,' p. 370). It is worthy of note that the word employed in our text, as also 2 Chronicles 6:13, is not the familiar word חַצֵר of all previous similar occasions, but עֲזרָהַ, a word of the later Hebrew, occurring also several times in Ezekiel, though not in exactly the same sense, and the elementary signification of the verb-root of which is "to gird," or "surround."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He made
וַיַּ֙עַשׂ֙ (way·ya·‘aś)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

the courtyard
חֲצַ֣ר (ḥă·ṣar)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 2691: A yard, a hamlet

of the priests
הַכֹּהֲנִ֔ים (hak·kō·hă·nîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3548: Priest

and the large
הַגְּדוֹלָ֑ה (hag·gə·ḏō·w·lāh)
Article | Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent

court
וְהָעֲזָרָ֖ה (wə·hā·‘ă·zā·rāh)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5835: An inclosure, a border

and doors
וּדְלָת֧וֹת (ū·ḏə·lā·ṯō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 1817: Something swinging, the valve of a, door

for the court,
לָעֲזָרָ֛ה (lā·‘ă·zā·rāh)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5835: An inclosure, a border

and he overlaid
צִפָּ֥ה (ṣip·pāh)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6823: To lay out, lay over

the doors
וְדַלְתוֹתֵיהֶ֖ם (wə·ḏal·ṯō·w·ṯê·hem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1817: Something swinging, the valve of a, door

with bronze.
נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃ (nə·ḥō·šeṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5178: Copper, something made of that metal, coin, a fetter, base


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