Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
1 Kings 6:36
And he built the inner court, that reserved for the priests, with three rows of hewed stone and a row of cedar-beams, the wall of stones being topped off by the coping of cedar-wood.
And he built the inner court, that reserved for the priests, with three rows of hewed stone and a row of cedar-beams, the wall of stones being topped off by the coping of cedar-wood.
Verse 1 Kings 6:36. _THREE ROWS OF HEWED STONE, AND A ROW OF CEDAR BEAMS._] Does not this intimate that there were three courses of stone, and then one course of timber all through this wall? Three s...
THE INNER COURT - An outer court is mentioned in 2 Chronicles 4:9. The inner court is probably identical with the “higher court” of Jeremiah Jeremiah 36:10, being raised above the outer, as were somet...
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...
_And he built the inner court_ This inner court is that which in Jeremiah 36:10 is called -the higher court" and must be that intended (2 Chronicles 4:9) by the -court of the priests" in contradistinc...
E. OTHER DETAILS OF THE TEMPLE CONSTRUCTION 6:36-38 TRANSLATION (36) And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams. (37) In the fourth year the foundation of th...
_AND HE BUILT THE INNER COURT WITH THREE ROWS OF HEWED STONE, AND A ROW OF CEDAR BEAMS._ The inner court - was for the priests; and its wall, which had a coping of cedar, is said to have been so low...
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...
THE INNER COURT] This was the court before the house (1 Kings 8:64), open to the air, and was surrounded by a fence of stone surmounted by a row, or paling, of cedar beams. It was on a higher level th...
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...
THE INNER COURT (probably the “higher court” of Jeremiah 35:10) is described as built round the Temple proper, evidently corresponding to the outer court of the Tabernacle. As this was (see Exodus 27:...
וַ יִּ֨בֶן֙ אֶת ־הֶ חָצֵ֣ר הַ פְּנִימִ֔ית
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;...
CARVED; OVERLAID; FINISHED 1 Kings 6:29 The meaning of 1 Kings 6:31 is uncertain. We gather that the door of the inner shrine was made of wild-olive wood and in two parts, and that it occupied a fift...
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 he built the inner (o) court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams. (o) Where the priests were, and was thus called in respect to the great court, which is called the porch of...
Court of the priests. --- Cedar. Some think that the court was surrounded with galleries, supported on three rows of pillars; or one gallery was above another, on pillars of stone, with a third suppor...
(15) В¶ 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 o...
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 HE BUILT THE INNER COURT,.... The court of the priests, 2 Chronicles 4:9; so called to distinguish it from the outer court, where the people assembled: this was built WITH THREE ROWS OF HEWED STO...
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams. Ver. 36. _And he built the inner court._] Called the court of the priests, 2Ch 4:9 and had without it an outer c...
_The inner court_ That wherein the priests officiated, (2 Chronicles 4:9,) so called because it was next to the temple, which it encompassed. _With three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams...
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 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,...
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 confide...
THE INNER COURT, i.e. the priests court, 2 CHRONICLES 4:9; so called, because it was next to the temple, which it did encompass. WITH THREE ROWS OF HEWED STONE, AND A ROW OF CEDAR BEAMS; which is unde...
1 Kings 6:36 built H1129 (H8799) inner H6442 court H2691 three H7969 rows H2905 stone H1496 row H2905 cedar...
THE INNER COURT (1 KINGS 6:36). 1 Kings 6:36 ‘ And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.' The Temple clearly had an Inner court, and therefore pres...
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...
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...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 6:36 This verse moves back outside the temple, to the INNER COURT. ⇐...
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...
2 Chronicles 4:9; 2 Chronicles 7:7; Exodus 27:9; Exodus 38:9;...
Inner court — The priests court, 2 Chronicles 4:9, so called, because it was next to the temple which it compassed. Cedar beams — Which is understood, of so many galleries, one on each side of the tem...