1Ki 6:1-14 | TSK | STEP | The building of Solomon's temple. The chambers thereof. God's promise unto it. The ceiling and adorning of it. The cherubims. The doors. The court. The time of building it. A.M. 2993. B.C. 1011. An. Ex. Is. 480. And it came. in the month Zif. began. Heb. built. build.

the length.According to Bp. Cumberland's estimation of the cubit, its length was 36 yds. 1 ft. 5/28 inch; its breadth 12 yds. 5/76 inch; and its height, 18 yds. 8/64 inch. This constituted what is properly called the temple; but, besides this, there were the courts and colonnades, where the people might assemble to perform their devotions, without being exposed to the open air.

threescore.

Ezr 6:3,4; Eze 41:1-15; Re 21:16,17

1Ch 28:11; 2Ch 3:3,4; Eze 41:15; Mt 4:5; Joh 10:23; Ac 3:10,11

windows of narrow lights. or, windows broad within, andnarrow without; or, skewed and closed.

4; So 2:9; Eze 40:16; 41:26

against. or, upon, or joining to. built.

1Ch 9:26; 23:28; 28:11; 2Ch 31:11; Ne 10:37; 12:44; 13:5-9; So 1:4

Jer 35:4; Eze 40:44; 41:5-11; 42:3-12

chambers. Heb. floors.These appear to have been what we should now call corridors or galleries; in which were apartments for the use of the priests. They consisted of three stories, and increased one cubit in breadth in every story, the wall of the temple being two cubits thicker at the bottom than at the top; and where the wall diminished, a rest was thus formed for the beams of the chambers to lodge upon.

oracle.

16,19-21,31; Ex 25:22; Le 16:2; Nu 7:89; 2Ch 4:20; 5:7,9; Ps 28:2

chambers. Heb. ribs.

narrowed rests. or, narrowings, or rebatements.

built of stone.

5:17,18; De 27:5,6; Pr 24:27; Ro 9:23; 2Co 5:5; Col 1:12; 1Pe 2:5

neither hammer.

Isa 42:2; Ac 9:31; Jas 1:20; 3:17,18

side. Heb. shoulder. went up.

Eze 41:6,7

he built.

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