1Ki 6:16-20, 2Ch 3:5-10, Eze 41:13-17, Heb 9:2-8 | TSK | STEP | built them. the oracle.The oracle was the sanctuary, or holy of holies, in which there was nothing but the ark of the covenant, including the tables of the law, and into which the high priest alone was to enter but once a year.

1 Kings 6:16-20

built them.

5,19,20; 8:6; Ex 25:21,22; 26:23; Le 16:2; 2Ch 3:8; Eze 45:3

the oracle.The oracle was the sanctuary, or holy of holies, in which there was nothing but the ark of the covenant, including the tables of the law, and into which the high priest alone was to enter but once a year.

knops. or, gourds.{Pekaïm,} "artificial knops," in the shape of {colocynths,} or wild gourds, as the word denotes. (See note on 2 Ki 4:39;) the full-blown flowers of which must have been very ornamental.

open flowers. or, openings of flowers.

the oracle.

5,16; 2Ch 4:20; Ps 28:2

to set.

8:6-10; Ex 40:20,21; 2Ch 5:7; Heb 9:3,4

twenty cubits.

2,3

pure. Heb. shut up. the altar.

22; 7:48; Ex 30:1-3

2 Chronicles 3:5-10

the greater.

1Ki 6:15-17,21,22

garnished. Heb. covered. precious.

1Ch 29:2,8; Isa 54:11,12; Re 21:18-21

Parvaim.Parvaim is supposed by Calmet to be the same as Sepharvaim in Armenia or Media; Bochart is of opinion that it is Taprobanes, now the island of Ceylon, which he drives from {taph,} a border, and Parvan, i.e., "the coast of Parvan;" but the late Editor of Calmet thinks it the same as the Parvatoi mountains of Ptolemy, at the head of the Indus.

overlaid.

Ex 26:29; 1Ki 6:20-22,30; Eze 7:20

graved cherubims.

Ex 26:1; 1Ki 6:35

the most holy.

Ex 26:33; 1Ki 6:19,20; Heb 9:3,9; 10:19

two cherubims.

1Ki 6:23-28

image work. or, as some think, of movable work.

Ezekiel 41:13-17

he measured.These verses (13-15) seem to intimate, that all the buildings of the temple occupied an area of 100 square cubits.

galleries. or, several walks, or walks with pillars.

42:3; So 1:17; 7:5; Zec 3:7

with the.

17; 42:15

narrow.

26; 40:16,25; 1Ki 6:4; 1Co 13:12

ceiled with wood. Heb. ceiling of wood.

1Ki 6:15; 2Ch 3:5; Hag 1:4

from the ground up to the windows. or, the ground unto thewindows. covered. Probably either by jutting out of the main wall of the temple; or by lattice work, or curtains, or by both.

To that.That is, the windows were placed above the height of the door, at the east end of the temple, and thus continued, at the same height, and at measured distances, along both sides of the holy place, to the wall of the inner sanctuary, in which there were no windows.

measure. Heb. measures.

42:15