Commentary Critical and Explanatory
1 Kings 6:8
The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
No JFB commentary on this verse.
The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
No JFB commentary on this verse.
THE DOOR FOR THE MIDDLE CHAMBER - i. e., the door which gave access to the mid-most “set of chambers.” The chambers on the ground-floor were possibly reached each by their own door in the outer wall o...
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...
_The door for the middle chamber_ R.V. MIDDLE SIDE-CHAMBERS. The LXX. and Targum here give -lowest" instead of -middle;" doubtless because otherwise there is no mode of access to the lower side-chambe...
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)...
THE MIDDLE CHAMBER] LXX has 'the lowest chamber,' which the sense requires. THE RIGHT SIDE] the S....
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...
פֶּ֗תַח הַ צֵּלָע֙ הַ תִּ֣יכֹנָ֔ה אֶל ־כֶּ֥תֶ
1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1 THE TEMPLE 1 Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 6:1;...
BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
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 revelatio...
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...
Middle side. Septuagint, "lower story." (Calmet) --- "The door of the lower story (rib or side, Greek: pleuras; Chaldean, the lower appendage) was under the right wing of the house, and a winding stai...
(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...
THE DOOR OF THE MIDDLE CHAMBER [WAS] IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HOUSE,.... The south side of it: AND THEY WENT UP WITH WINDING STAIRS INTO THE MIDDLE [CHAMBER]; which were outside the chambers, and whi...
The door for the middle chamber [was] in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle [chamber], and out of the middle into the third. Ver. 8. _And they went up w...
_The door for the middle chamber_ That is, by which they entered to go up into the middle row of chambers; _was in the right side_ That is, in the south side, called _the right side_, because, when 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 door for the middle chamber, the side-structure, or wings, WAS IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HOUSE, on the south side; AND THEY WENT UP WITH WINDING STAIRS INTO THE MIDDLE CHAMBER, inside the side-stru...
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,...
SIDE: _ Heb._ shoulder...
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...
THE DOOR FOR THE MIDDLE CHAMBER, i.e. by which they entered to go up to the middle chamber or chambers, to wit, such as were in the middle story. IN THE RIGHT SIDE, i.e. in the south side, called _the...
1 Kings 6:8 doorway H6607 middle H8484 story H6763 right H3233 side H3802 temple H1004 up H5927 (H8799) stairs...
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 cha...
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...
Ezekiel 41:6; Ezekiel 41:7...
The door — That is, by which they entered to go up to the middle chamber or chambers; such as were in the middle story. Right side — That is, in the south — side, called the right side; because when a...