²⁰and the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold; =20.= _the oracle_] See note on iii. 16. ²¹and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold; =21.= _the flowers_] These were ornaments on the golden candlesticks; compare Exodus xxxvii. 19. ²²and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the firepans, of pure gold: and as for the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house, _to wit_, of the temple, were of gold. =22.= _the firepans_] in which fire was carried to and from the altar. _the doors of the house_, to wit, _of the temple_] The “[greater] house” or “temple” is here distinguished from the “most holy place” or “shrine.” Compare iii. 5, 8. _were of gold_] According to the more probable reading of 1 Kings vii. 50 the _hinges_ were of gold; the doors themselves were of olive wood overlaid with gold (1 Kings vi. 31, 32). ¹Thus all the work that Solomon wrought for the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God. =CHAPTER V. 1.= _all the vessels_] the word may be taken to include weapons, spoils of war, compare 2 Samuel viii. 7 ff.; 1 Chronicles xviii. 11. V. 2‒VIII. 10. THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE. CHAPTER V. =2‒10= (= 1 Kings viii. 1‒9). THE ARK BROUGHT INTO THE SANCTUARY. This section is taken almost verbatim from 1 Kings. ²Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ _houses_ of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. =2.= _Then Solomon assembled_] The same verb in the Hebrew as in 1 Chronicles xv. 3 (see note there) and in 1 Chronicles xxviii. 1. _the city of David_] See 1 Chronicles xi. 5, note on _the strong hold of Zion_. ³And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king at the feast, which was _in_ the seventh month. =3.= _the feast_] i.e. the Feast of Tabernacles, i.e. after the fruit harvest. in _the seventh month_] In 1 Kings the name of the month is given as _Ethanim_, but this word was perhaps obsolete when the Chronicler wrote; at any rate we know that in post-biblical times the seventh month was regularly called _Tisri_. ⁴And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.