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In chapter one of 2 Chronicles, Solomon gathers the people together at the Tabernacle and ascends the copper altar to give sacrifices. The chapter specifically mentions that this was the altar that was built by Bezalel at the time of Moses. The chapter also makes the point that the Ark was already in Jerusalem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This chapter, on the other hand, opens with Solomon seemingly rebuilding the altar. \u201cHe made an altar of bronze 20 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and 10 cubits high\u201d (verse 1). This verse does not appear in 1 Kings. After emphasizing the altar built by Bezalel and the fact that the Ark was brought up to Jerusalem, why does Solomon not transport the original copper altar as well? Some commentators emphasize the fact that this chapter comes after the description of the building of the Temple itself. Solomon did bring the original altar, but when he placed it in the proper location, the building dwarfed the original altar. Not wanting to have this diminutive altar, he reinforced it with stones, building it up higher than it was. The motivation behind the commentators seems to be to salvage the altar. How could Solomon replace something that Moses helped build?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If we look at the text, though, it does not seem to indicate that Solomon reinforced the altar at all. One can imagine that Solomon specifically made a show in ch. 1 of ascending the old altar. He then builds a brand new one in the Temple as a way to show the transition from the Tabernacle to the Temple. The outer copper altar is the only visible item of the five main Temple service pieces- the Ark, the shewbread table, the menorah, the inner gold altar, and the outer copper one. Only the regular priests see the inner pieces, and only the high priest sees the Ark. It therefore makes sense that out of all of these items, Solomon rebuilds the outer altar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Earlier, we learned that King Huram of Tyre had dispatched a master craftsman, named Huram, to assist in the construction. Credited in our chapter with the completion of the \u201cwork he had undertaken for King Solomon in the House of God\u201d (11), he is identified as \u201cthe son of a Danite woman, his father a Tyrian\u201d (2:13). However, in 1 Kings, we encountered a Tyrian coppersmith named Hiram who is identified as <\/span>\u201c<\/span>the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali\u201d (7:14). Hiram and Huram are easy enough to explain, but what about Dan and Naftali?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The traditional exegetes took two positions on the identification. Radak reconciled the two sources by interpreting \u201cthe son of a widow of the tribe of Naftali\u201d to mean that the widow\u2019s late husband was from that tribe but she herself was a Danite. Malbim, however, decided that they were two different people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There [1 Kings], Solomon sent for him after the construction was completed while the one mentioned here [2 Chronicles] was of a Danite mother and Tyrian father and was dispatched by the king [of Tyre] at the start of the construction because he was capable of working with gold and silver. He worked all seven years and afterwards he died\u2026 whereupon Solomon summoned the son of the first Hiram who was born of a widow of the tribe of Naftali\u2026 He was capable only of copperwork [which was done at the end].<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A close comparison between this chapter and 1 Kings 7 reveals several additional discrepancies. First, our opening verse, \u201cHe made an altar of bronze 20 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and 10 cubits high,\u201d is absent in 1 Kings 7, although the presence of that same altar is established in 1 Kings 8:64. Next, the construction of washing stands (<\/span>m\u2019khonot<\/span><\/em>) described, in detail, in 1 Kings 7:27 ff., is absent in Chronicles although they, too, are accounted for in 2 Chr. 4:14, and the bronze lavers for washing (<\/span>kiyorim<\/span><\/em>) appearing in v. 6 are presented in greater detail in 1 Kings 7: 38-39.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Another discrepancy arises with the inclusion, in vs. 7-10, of several items whose fabrication is absent in the parallel passage in 1 Kings. They include lampstands (<\/span>m\u2019norot<\/span><\/em>), tables (<\/span>shulchanot<\/span><\/em>), the priestly courtyard (<\/span>chatzer<\/span><\/em>), and the reservoir (<\/span>yam<\/span><\/em>). The balance of the chapter differs from its parallel only in relatively insubstantial linguistic details.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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4:7 \u201cAnd he made ten golden lampstands as they should be, and he placed in the Temple five on the right and five on the left.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Whereas earlier biblical Hebrew more consistently used <\/span>bayit<\/span><\/em>, \u201chouse,\u201d to mean \u201ctemple,\u201d this later text often shows a specialized term, <\/span>heykhal<\/span><\/em>, which means \u201ctemple\u201d and, in some other contexts, \u201cpalace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 3: Writings, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. By permission of the author.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Comp lit<\/em>. 1 Kings 7 is the parallel to this chapter\u2019s text. What\u2019s different? The copper altar and the golden tables are absent from the description in Kings, but there are described <\/span>mechonot<\/span><\/i>, washing basins, that don\u2019t appear here. And there are more differences.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Humongous<\/em>. The altar is huge: it\u2019s length and width are as great as the entire Temple (20 <\/span>amot<\/span><\/em>, cubits = c. 20 meters), and its height - about a third of the height of the Temple (10 <\/span>amot<\/span><\/em> = c. 5 meters).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Ministerial responsibility<\/em>. The word <\/span>vaya\u2019as<\/span><\/em>, \u201che made.\u201d Once that refers to Huram (verse 11). Who \u201cdoes\u201d all the others? Whether stated or not - it is Solomon.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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