Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Kings 6:18
Cedar — Cedar is here named, not to exclude all other wood, but stone only; as the following words shew.
Cedar — Cedar is here named, not to exclude all other wood, but stone only; as the following words shew.
KNOPS AND OPEN FLOWERS - Rather, “gourds and opening flower-buds.” Imitations of the vegetable world are among the earliest of architectural ornaments. They abound in the architecture of Egypt and Per...
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...
NO STONE SEEN. Figure of speech _Pleonasm._ App-6. Words not necessary for grammar, or sense; but used to emphasize the completeness of our covering by Christ's merits. Compare Ephesians 1:6; Colossia...
_And the cedar of the house within_ Better more literally, with R.V. -And THERE WAS CEDAR UPON the house within." He is now describing the wainscot of the holy place. _carved with knops_ There is a fe...
D. THE INTERIOR OF THE HOUSE 6:15-35 1 Kings 6:15 resumes the description of the building of the Temple which was interrupted in 1 Kings 6:11-14 by the account of the divine communication which came t...
_AND THE CEDAR OF THE HOUSE WITHIN WAS CARVED WITH KNOPS AND OPEN FLOWERS: ALL WAS CEDAR; THERE WAS NO STONE SEEN._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
6:18 colocynths (h-11) A kind of gourd....
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...
KNOPS] i.e. knobs, and so in 1 Kings 7:24. RM has 'gourds,' implying that the ornaments intended, which were carved in relief, were globular in shape, resembling pumpkins....
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...
וְ אֶ֤רֶז אֶל ־הַ בַּ֨יִת֙ פְּנִ֔ימָה מִקְלַ֣
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 ORACLE IN THE MIDST 1 Kings 6:14 In the Temple the general design of the Tabernacle was perpetuated by the division between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place, but there were several addition...
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...
CHAPTER VI. _ Out. Hebrew, "and the cedar boards of the house within, were carved with knops (fruits) and open flowers," (Haydock) alternately. (Calmet) --- At all. So the bones in the human body, th...
(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 THE CEDAR OF THE HOUSE WITHIN,.... With which the inside of the place was lined: [WAS] CARVED WITH KNOPS; of an oval form; so the Targum says, they had the appearance of eggs; and Ben Gersom like...
And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knops and open flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen. Ver. 18. _Carved with knops and open flowers._] To show the multifarious flourish...
_The temple before it_ The part of the house which was before the most holy place. In the Hebrew the words are, _before my face_, that is, before the place where the divine glory appeared. _Was forty...
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 Ornamentation of the Temple...
And the cedar of the house within, in the walls and ceilings, WAS CARVED WITH KNOPS AND OPEN FLOWERS, raised work in flowers and festooning; ALL WAS CEDAR; THERE WAS NO STONE SEEN....
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,...
KNOPS: Or, gourds OPEN FLOWERS: _ Heb._ openings of flowers...
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...
ALL WAS CEDAR, i.e. all the house was covered with cedar. QUEST. How was this true, when it was covered with fir, 2 CHRONICLES 3:5 ? ANSW. 1. It was done with cedar and fir; of which SEE POOLE ON "1...
1 Kings 6:18 inside H6441 temple H1004 cedar H730 carved H4734 buds H6497 open H6362 (H8803) flowers H6731 cedar...
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...
_No stone seen._ THE TEMPLE OF GOD FLAWLESS “All was cedar; there was no stone seen.” Take stone in the type for that which was really so, and in the antitype for that which is so mystically, and the...
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 6:14 SOLOMON BUILT THE HOUSE AND FINISHED IT. The repetition of v. 1 Kings 6:9 in v....
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...
1 Kings 6:18...