2 Chronicles 4:7 - Exposition

Ten candlesticks of gold . The only allusion to these in the parallel is found later on in part of the forty-ninth verse of 1 Kings 7:1-51 . According to their form. This expression, though so vague, might point to the fact that the form of the old candlestick of the tabernacle was adhered to ( Exodus 25:31 ). But considering the recurrence of the same words ( 1 Kings 7:20 ), there can be no doubt that the phrase is identical in its meaning with the use found in such passages as Le 1 Kings 5:10 ; 1 Kings 9:16 , and means "according to the prescribed ordinance,"