What does 1 Kings 6:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And against the walla of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:"
CHAMBERS - (Margin, floors). Rather, a lean-to, which completely surrounded three sides of the building, the north, the west, and the south....
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...
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 Z...
ORACLE. See note on 2 Samuel 16:23....
_And against the wall of the house he built chambers_ The A. V. points out by its margin that the word here translated -chambers" is not the same as that so rendered in the latter part of the verse. F...
B. THE EXTERIOR OF THE HOUSE 6:2-10 TRANSLATION (2) As for the house which King Solomon built for the LORD: sixty cubits was its length and twenty cubits its breadth and thirty cubits its height. (3)...
_AND AGAINST THE WALL OF THE HOUSE HE BUILT CHAMBERS ROUND ABOUT, AGAINST THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE ROUND ABOUT, BOTH OF THE TEMPLE AND OF THE ORACLE: AND HE MADE CHAMBERS ROUND ABOUT:_ Against the wall...
6:5 floors (d-10) 'Floors' or 'flats' in three stories....
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE In shape the Temple was a rectangular hall 60 x 20 x 30 cubits (a cubit being about 18 inches). On its E. face it had a porch (forming an entrance) which extended across...
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 6 THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE *TEMPLE Solomon acted as the *temple’s architect. But the plans were not his own. He used the plans that David...
(5-10) The general meaning of these verses is clear, though some of the words are doubtful. Round three sides of the Temple was built a kind of aisle, opening, however, outwards and not into the Templ...
וַ יִּבֶן֩ עַל ־קִ֨יר הַ בַּ֤יִת _יָצִ֨יעַ֙_† סָבִ֔יב אֶת ־קִירֹ֤ות הַ בַּ֨יִת֙ סָבִ֔יב לַֽ...
1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1 THE TEMPLE 1 Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1 "And his next son, for wealth and wisdom famed, The clouded Ark of God, till then in tents Wandering, shall in a glorious...
THE PLAN OF THE LORD'S HOUSE 1 Kings 6:1 The Temple was twice the size of the Tabernacle-ninety feet long by thirty feet broad, and forty-five feet high. The plan had been given to David by revelati...
This chapter is full of interest, as it gives a somewhat detailed description of the structure of the Temple. In all essentials its actual central building was on the pattern of the Tabernacle. It was...
And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, [against] the walls of the house round about, [both] of the temple and of (d) the oracle: and he made chambers round about: (d) When G...
_Upon the wall. That is, joining to the wall. --- He built floors round about. Chambers or cells adjoining to the temple, for the use of the temple and of the priests, so contrived as to be between th...
(3) And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house. (4) And for the...
The books of First and Second Samuel show us the failure of the priesthood, and, in consequence, when a state of evident shame and dishonour overspread the face of Israel, the heart of the people desi...
The house may be looked at in two ways-as a type of the Father's house, and as in fact the habitation of God on the earth when Jesus reigns. In the latter aspect I only look for the grand thoughts and...
AND AGAINST THE WALL OF THE HOUSE HE BUILT CHAMBERS ROUND ABOUT,.... Or near it, as Jarchi interprets it, for the beams of them were not fastened in in it, 1 Kings 6:6; or rather "upon" it p; and when...
_And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, [against] the walls of the house round about, [both] of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:_ Ver. 5. _He...
_Against the wall of the house he built chambers_ For the accommodation of the priests, when they were upon duty at the temple. Here they kept their clothes, the sacred vessels not in immediate use, a...
1 The building of Solomons Temple. 5 The chambers thereof. 11 Gods promise vnto it. 15 The sieling and adorning of it: 23 The Cherubims. 31 The doores. 36 The court. 37 The time of building it....
THE BUILDING ITSELF...
THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE (vs.1-38) The date of the beginning of the temple is given specifically in verse 1 as the 480th year after Israel had left Egypt, which was the 4th year of Solomon's reign...
AGAINST: Or, upon, or joining to CHAMBERS: _ Heb._ floors CHAMBERS: _ Heb._ ribs NARROWED: _ Heb._ narrowings, or, rebatements...
1-10 The temple is called the house of the Lord, because it was directed and modelled by him, and was to be employed in his service. This gave it the beauty of holiness, that it was the house of the L...
AGAINST THE WALL; or, _upon it_; or, _joining to it_; for the beams of the chambers were not fastened into the wall, but leaned upon the buttresses of the wall. _He built chambers_, for the laying the...
1 Kings 6:5 wall H7023 temple H1004 built H1129 (H8799) chambers H3326 (H8675) H3326 around H5439 walls H7023 temple H1004 around H5439 sanctuary H1964 sanctuary H1687 made H6213 (H8799) chambers H676...
CONTENTS: Work on the temple begun. Dimensions and materials. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: We should not mistake noise and notoriety for spiritual progress (1 Kings 6:7). Quietness and orde...
1 Kings 6:1. _In the four hundred and eightieth year._ The Hebrew, the Chaldaic, and most of the Greek versions read as the English; yet some difficulties occur. _Vide Poli in locum._ The following su...
_He began to build the house of the Lord._ THE TEMPLE BUILT Solomon’s temple is the most wonderful and interesting building in the world’s history. It was “the mysterious centre of Israel.” It was fa...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 6:1 With preparation for the temple complete, the text describes the building and its furnishings. This is interrupted in 1 Kings 7:1 by a description of the building of Solomo...
THE BUILDING OF SOLOMON’S TEMPLE CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 6:1. BEGAN TO BUILD THE HOUSE OF THE LORD—The chronological year is carefully noted, and no criticism supplies reason for ch...
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...
So in chapter six he began to build the temple. In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, and in the fourth year of Solomon's reign, in t...
1 Chronicles 23:28; 1 Chronicles 28:11; 1 Chronicles 9:26; 1 Kings 6:16; 1 Kings 6:19; 1 Kings 6:31; 2 Chronicles 31:11; 2 Chronicles 4:20; 2 Chronicles 5:7;...
Against the wall — The beams of the chambers were not fastened into the wall, but leaned upon the buttresses of the wall. Chambers — For the laying the priests garments, and other utensils belonging t...