1 Chronicles 28:11

_THEN DAVID GAVE TO SOLOMON HIS SON THE PATTERN OF THE PORCH, AND OF THE HOUSES THEREOF, AND OF THE TREASURIES THEREOF, AND OF THE UPPER CHAMBERS THEREOF, AND OF THE INNER PARLOURS THEREOF, AND OF THE PLACE OF THE MERCY SEAT,_ Then David gave to Solomon ... the pattern. He now put into the hands of his son and successor the plan or model of the temple, with the elevations, measurements, apartments, and chief articles of furniture....

11-21 The temple must be a sacred thing, and a type of Christ; it must be framed by Divine teaching. Christ is the true temple, the church is the gospel temple, and heaven the everlasting temple; all are framed according to the Divine counsels, and the plan laid in the Divine wisdom, ordained before the world, for God's glory and our good. David gave this pattern to Solomon, that he might go by rule. Materials were provided for the most costly utensils of the temple. Directions were given which way to look for help in this great undertaking. Be not dismayed; God will help thee, and thou must look up to him in the first place. We may be sure that God, who owned our fathers, and carried them through the services of their day, will, in like manner, never leave us, while he has any work to do in us, or by us. Good work is likely to go on, when all concerned are hearty in furthering it. Let u...

Verse 1 Chronicles 28:11. _DAVID GAVE TO SOLOMON - THE PATTERN_] He gave him an ichnograph of the building, with elevations, sections, and specifications of every part; and all this he received by inspiration from God himself, (see 1 Chronicles 28:12; 1 Chronicles 28:19,) just as Moses had received the plan of the tabernacle. _THE TREASURIES THEREOF_] גנזכיו _ganzaccaiv_. The word גנזך _ganzach_ is not Hebrew, but is supposed to be _Persian_, the same word being found in Esther 3:9. In this tongue we have the word [Persian] _ganj_, a granary, a hidden tre

Compare 1 Chronicles 28:19. As God had revealed to Moses the pattern of the tabernacle Exodus 26; Exodus 27, so He had made known by revelation to David the pattern of the temple and its furniture. This pattern, which consisted of a set of directions in writing, David now handed over to Solomon. THE HOUSES - The “holy place” and the “holy of holies “ - called respectively “the house” and the “inner house” 1 Kings 6:17, 1 Kings 6:27, and...

EXPOSITION The contents of this chapter may be said to form one scene with those of the next up to verse 25. They represent David in the presence of a magnificent company of witnesses, the flower of the Church, the military and the civil elements of his kingdom, devolving upon his son both the building of the temple and the throne itself. 1 CHRONICLES 28:1 One Hebrew word (שׂרֵי) stands for the PRINCES (twice), CAPTAINS (three times), and STEWARDS (once) of this verse. The classification of the verso speaks for itself. There are the princes of Israel; _i.q. _the princes of the tribes (1 Chronicles 27:16,...

THEN DAVID GAVE TO SOLOMON HIS SON THE PATTERN OF THE PORCH,.... The breadth, and length, and height of it, which was to be placed at the east end of the temple, and was the entrance into it: AND, OF THE HOUSES THEREOF; the holy place, and the most holy, which latter is called the greater house, 2 Chronicles 3:5, AND OF THE TREASURES; where things belonging to the temple were laid up, the priests' vestments, and other things: AND OF THE UPPER CHAMBERS; where the priests lay or met for conversation, Jeremiah 35:2. AND OF THE INNER PARLOURS THEREOF; where the priests ate of the holy things; all these seem to he buildings against the wall of the temple round about,...

1 Chronicles 28:1. _And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards ever all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem._ David, in his old age, and soon to die, summoned a great representative assembly of the notables of his kingdom. 1 Chronicles 28:2. _Then David the king stood up upon his feet,_ He was ill, and obliged to keep his bed; but; he left his couch for this solemn occasion. He did not even remain seated, although extremely weak; but he stood up upon h

7. THE LAST ACTS OF DAVID AND HIS DEATH CHAPTER 28 The Great Assembly _ 1. The Address of David to the assembly (1 Chronicles 28:1)_ 2. The patterns, the gold and the silver delivered to Solomon (1 Chronicles 28:11) 3. His encouraging words to Solomon (1 Chronicles 28:20) The events in this chapter connect with 1 Chronicles 23:1. There we find the brief statement that David was old and full of years and that Solomon his son was made king over Israel. Then follow the Chapter s which acquaint us with the preparations David had made for the building of th

DAVID'S ADDRESS TO THE GREAT ONES OF THE LAND: HE GIVES SOLOMON THE PLANS OF THE TEMPLE. In this chapter the thread of the narrative is taken up from where it was left at the end of _ch._ 22. 1 Chronicles 28:2. my brethren and my people: see Deuteronomy 17:15, where it is said that one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee. As so often elsewhere, the ideas of the Chronicler are dominated by the Law; an oriental king does not place himself on a level with his subjects in this way. 2 Samuel 19:12 f. does not contradict this, for there David is speaking in reference to the elders of the land, some of whom were his kinsmen; it was, moreover, a time of grievous stress for

THE PATTERN. Same word as of Tabernacle to Moses (Exodus 25:9; Exodus 25:40. See Hebrews 9:5). THEREOF: i.e. of the sanctuary. MERCY SEAT. the propitiatory. See note on Exodus 25:17....