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2 Chronicles 3:1-4:22

Upon Mount Moriah

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Upon Mount Moriah

2 Chronicles 3:1-4:22

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This song belongs to the 2 Chronicles collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

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[Verse 1] Construction begins on Mount Moriah at Ornan's threshing floor. The temple foundation follows measured length and breadth. The greater house is lined with cedar and decorated with gold, palms. Beams, posts, walls, doors, and cherubim receive gold covering. [Pre-Chorus] The people drew near, but not by careless way, Holiness ordered every word and day. [Chorus] Upon Mount Moriah, keep the covenant in view, Every word and ordered service true. From altar, ark, and house the witness rose, The holy God alone the ending knows. [Verse 2] Two carved cherubim stand within the most holy place. Their twenty-cubit wings touch the walls and one another. A veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen bears cherubim. The pillars are named Jachin and Boaz. [Bridge] The molten sea rests upon twelve oxen facing the four directions. Ten lavers, ten candlesticks, and ten tables are placed by ordered sides. Courts, doors, pots, shovels, basins, and bronze works are completed by Huram. Golden altars, tables, lampstands, flowers, lamps, tongs, bowls, spoons. [Final Chorus] Upon Mount Moriah, keep the covenant in view, Every word and ordered service true. From altar, ark, and house the witness rose, The holy God alone the witness shows. [Outro] The lamps burned low, the ordered service stayed. The covenant remembered every vow that had been made.

Named in this songMount MoriahJachin and BoazMolten sea

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2 Chronicles 3: Gold rises on ground marked by mercy

The temple takes visible form on a site already loaded with memory. Before giving dimensions, the Book of 2 Chronicles identifies Mount Moriah and Ornan's threshing floor, the place connected with David's accepted sacrifice. From there the chapter moves through measurements, gold, precious stones, carved palms and cherubim, the square most holy place, immense winged figures, a coloured veil, and the paired pillars at the entrance. The splendour is ordered rather than vague. Inner rooms, boundaries, surfaces, and approaches each receive their own treatment. At the same time, several measurements remain difficult when compared with other biblical accounts, and the chapter itself does not solve every architectural question. What is secure is enough: Solomon builds with deliberate magnificence, the most restricted space receives extraordinary attention, and even the entrance is marked by named, ornamented pillars.

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2 Chronicles 4: The temple is equipped for work

A finished sanctuary still needs equipment, and this chapter is interested in what the beautiful objects actually do. The great altar, the immense cast sea, and the ten lavers establish different places and purposes for sacrifice and washing. Lampstands and tables are arranged five on one side and five on the other, courts and doors are specified, and the sea itself is given a location rather than left as an isolated marvel. Huram's craftsmanship receives explicit credit as the inventory runs from monumental pillars and decorative pomegranates down to pots, shovels, and flesh hooks. The final gold furnishings belong to continual service: bread must be set out, lamps must burn, and those lamps require tools for tending. The chapter's abundance never floats free of function. A sanctuary prepared for worship is also a place of maintenance, placement, skilled manufacture, and repeated work.

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