1 Kings 6:15

_AND HE BUILT THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE WITHIN WITH BOARDS OF CEDAR, BOTH THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE, AND THE WALLS OF THE CIELING: AND HE COVERED THEM ON THE INSIDE WITH WOOD, AND COVERED THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE WITH PLANKS OF FIR._ He built the walls of the house within. It is probable that the walls were only wainscoted with cedar wood, the floor paved with cypress planks (see 'Nineveh and its Remains,' 2:, p. 264, note; also Wikinson's 'Ancient Egyptians,' 2:, p. 125); the interior was divided by a partition, consisting of folding doors, which were opened and shut with golden chains, into two apartments: the back, or inner room, i:e., the most holy place, was 20 cubits long and broad; the front, or outer room, i:e., the holy place, was forty cubits. The cedar wood was beautifully embellished with figures in relievo, representing clusters of foliage and open flowers, cherubim, and palm trees...

15-38 See what was typified by this temple. 1. Christ is the true Temple. In him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead; in him meet all God's spiritual Israel; through him we have access with confidence to God. 2. Every believer is a living temple, in whom the Spirit of God dwells, 1 Corinthians 3:16. This living temple is built upon Christ as its Foundation, and will be perfect in due time. 3. The gospel church is the mystical temple. It grows to a holy temple in the Lord, enriched and beautified with the gifts and graces of the Spirit. This temple is built firm, upon a Rock. 4. Heaven is the everlasting temple. There the church will be fixed. All that shall be stones in that building, must, in the present state of preparation, be fitted and made ready for it. Let sinners come to Jesus as the living Foundation, that they may be built on him, a part of this spiritual house, consecrated...

Verse 1 Kings 6:15. _THE WALLS OF THE CEILING_] 1 Kings 6:9....

The description of this verse applies to the main chamber of the temple, the holy place, only. The writer in 1 Kings 6:16 describes the holy of holies. The marginal rendering of this verse is right, and not the rendering in the text. FIR - Rather, “juniper.” See 1 Kings 5:6 note....

EXPOSITION SOLOMON'S TEMPLE.—The preparations for the building of the Temple having been related in the preceding chapter, the historian now proceeds to describe the edifice. He begins his narrative with a precise statement of the date of its erection (1 Kings 6:1); then follows (1) a description of the shape, size, and arrangement of the exterior (1 Kings 6:2), and (2) a detailed account of its internal fittings and adornments (1 Kings 6:15-11). The promise made to Solomon during its erection finds a place in 1 Kings 6:11; while the vessels,

AND HE BUILT THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE WITHIN WITH BOARDS OF CEDAR,.... For as yet he had only built the stone walls of it without, but now he wainscotted it with cedar boards: and not only them, but BOTH THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE, AND THE WALLS OF THE CEILING; or from "the floor of the house unto the walls of the ceiling"; that is, from the floor, including that, to the walls on each side, reaching up to the ceiling, HE COVERED [THEM] ON THE INSIDE WITH WOOD: of one sort or another, cedar or fir, or both: particularly he COVERED THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE WITH PLANKS OF FIR: which Hiram sent him, 1 Kings 5:8; which is differently interpreted; by Josephus cypress; by others, as the Tigurine version, pine tree wood; it is very probable it was of the cedar kind, and not the floor only, but the ceiling also,...

CHAPTER 6THE DESCRIPTION OF THE TEMPLE _ 1. The date of the beginning of the building (1 Kings 6:1)_ 2. The house, the porches and side chambers (1 Kings 6:2) 3. The divine charge (1 Kings 6:11) 4. The internal arrangements (1 Kings 6:15) 5. The cherubim (1 Kings 6:23) 6. The doors (1 Kings 6:31) 7. The inner court and the temple finished ...

DESCRIPTION OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE. The Temple area is on the eastern hill of Jerusalem, which overlooks the valley of the Kidron, with the Mount of Olives on the opposite side. It was probably not the Zion captured by David (2 Samuel 5), but the site was purchased by him from Ornan, or Araunah, the Jebusite (2 Samuel 24:18). It is marked by an outcrop of rock, now called the _Sakrah._ The Temple hill is divided from the Upper City on the western hill by a valley called the Tyropœ an (cheese-makers). The Temple was part of a great scheme of building which has been restored by Stade, whose reconstruction is now generally adopted in descriptions of early Jerusalem. To understand aright the difficult account of Solomon's buildings in these Chapter s, Ezekiel's restored Temple (Ezekiel 40-48) and Josephus'sketch of Herod's Temple (_Wars,_...

COVERED. Note that all the stonework was covered with cedar wood; and the cedar wood covered with gold. Even so the saved sinner is covered with Christ's human and Divine righteousness imputed to him. Compare Luke 15:22.Philippians 1:3; Philippians 1:9....

_And he built_ The Hebrew uses the same word for the erection of the stone structure and for the work described in this verse, which was to fit the house with a wainscot of cedar. _both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling_ More literally, and better, with R.V., - FROM the floor of the house UNTO the walls of the cieling." The expression means from top to bottom, but -the walls of the cieling" is a singular description of that portion of the wall which touches the cieling. The difference between the Hebrew word for -walls" קירות and for -beams" קורות is so slight that we can hardly help accepting the reading of the LXX. in the next verse, and apparently here too, of -beams." and _he covered_them] It is better to omit the conjunction for which, as A.V. indicates, there is no Hebrew, and join with the previous clause, -from the floor of the house to the walls (beams?) of...