Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. Ver. 1. _Then Solomon began to build._] _See Trapp on "_ 1Ki 6:1 _"_ &c _ At Jerusalem... [ Continue Reading ]
And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. Ver. 2. _In the fourth year of his reign._] Temple work meets with many problems, and goes not on too hastily.... [ Continue Reading ]
Now these [are the things wherein] Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. Ver. 3. _Wherein Solomon was instructed._] Heb., Founded. To be well instructed, is to be well grounde... [ Continue Reading ]
And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house], the length [of it was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height [was] an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold. Ver. 4. _And the porch._] See on 1 Kings 6:3 . _ And he overlaid it within with p... [ Continue Reading ]
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains. Ver. 5. _Which he overlaid with fine gold._] As the parts of this temple were not seen naked, so neither must our souls be seen without faith, love, and other golden graces.... [ Continue Reading ]
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold [was] gold of Parvaim. Ver. 6. _And he garnished the house with precious stones._] Every one of which had some egregious virtue: so, much more hath effectual faith, laborious love, reverent fear, patient hope, right repentance... [ Continue Reading ]
He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls. Ver. 7. _He overlaid also the house._] All the inside of it. Let us spare for no cost, _ut aureos et argenteos animos, hoc est, variis virtutibus excultos ha... [ Continue Reading ]
And he made the most holy house, the length whereof [was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, [amounting] to six hundred talents. Ver. 8. _Six hundred talents._] Which is, as we count it, two millions and tw... [ Continue Reading ]
And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. Ver. 9. _And he overlaid the upper chambers._] These were, saith Diodate, certain principal rooms of the building of the porticoes, appointed for the holy ministers to make their meals in, like un... [ Continue Reading ]
And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold. Ver. 10. _Two cherubims of image work._] _Opere exemtili,_ so Tremellius; of work that might be taken asunder. Or of moving work, so others; that is to say, made as if they were in the act of flying or goin... [ Continue Reading ]
And the wings of the cherubims [were] twenty cubits long: one wing [of the one cherub was] five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing [was likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. 2Ch 3:12 And [one] wing of the other cherub [was] five cubits, reaching... [ Continue Reading ]
The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces [were] inward. Ver. 13. _And their faces were inward._] Heb., Toward the house; i.e., toward the holy place, called the greater house. 2Ch 3:5... [ Continue Reading ]
And he made the vail [of] blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon. Ver. 14. _And he made the veil._] See on 1 Kings 6:21 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that [was] on the top of each of them [was] five cubits. Ver. 15. _Also he made before the house two pillars._] These were cast by Hiram, as great ordnance are now-a-days, round and hollow. See on 1 Kings 7:1... [ Continue Reading ]
And he made chains, [as] in the oracle, and put [them] on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put [them] on the chains. 2Ch 3:17 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand... [ Continue Reading ]