Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Kings 7:4
Against light — One directly opposite to the other, as is usual in well — contrived buildings. In ranks — One exactly under another.
Against light — One directly opposite to the other, as is usual in well — contrived buildings. In ranks — One exactly under another.
Either three ranges of windows, one above the other, on either side of the house; or perhaps the three ranges were one in either side wall, and the third in a wall down the middle of the hall, along t...
CHAPTER 7 THE HOUSE OF SOLOMON AND PHARAOH'S DAUGHTERTHE FURNISHINGS OF THE TEMPLE _ 1. The house of the forest of Lebanon (1 Kings 7:1)_ 2. The royal palace and the house of Pharaoh's daughter (1 K...
1 KINGS 7. SOLOMON'S PALACE (1 KINGS 1-12). THE TEMPLE IMPLEMENTS (1KINGS 13- 51). Twenty years (_cf._ 1 Kings 9:10 with 1 Kings 7:1) was Solomon engaged in building. After completing the Temple he bu...
_And_there were _windows_in _three rows_ This is not the usual word for -windows," but is that which in 1 Kings 6:4 describes the sloping woodwork, or lattice, used in the windows of the Temple. From...
I. THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PALACE COMPLEX 7:1-12 TRANSLATION (1) Now his own house, Solomon was thirteen years in the process of building; and he finished all his house. (2) And he built the house of...
_AND IT WAS COVERED WITH CEDAR ABOVE UPON THE BEAMS, THAT LAY ON FORTY FIVE PILLARS, FIFTEEN IN A ROW._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
SOLOMON'S PALACE This c, besides giving a description of Solomon's palace, contains an account of the principal utensils belonging to the Temple....
LIGHT.. RANKS] The external walls were pierced with three rows of windows, so arranged that those in each side corresponded in position to those in the opposite side. 5. _were_ SQUARE, WITH THE WINDO...
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 7 SOLOMON’S PALACES V1 Solomon took 13 years to build his palace. V2 The first great hall that he made was called the ‘Hall of the Fores...
וּ שְׁקֻפִ֖ים שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה טוּרִ֑ים וּ מֶחֱזָ֥ה...
1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1 THE TEMPLE 1 Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 6:1;...
OTHER SPLENDID STRUCTURES 1 Kings 7:1 Solomon's house took nearly twice as long to build as did the Temple, because there was not the same urgency for it. His house and that for the queen were proba...
BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
Taking advantage of the treaty with Hiram, Solomon also built a house for himself, the house of the forest of Lebanon, a description of which is given in the commencement of this chapter. It is surely...
And [there were] windows [in] three rows, and light [was] (c) against light [in] three ranks. (c) There were as many and like proportion on the one side as the other, and at every end even three in a...
_Set, &c. Hebrew, "and windows in three rows, over-against one another; (5) and all the doors and posts square with the windows: and light was against light, in three rows." (Haydock) --- The palace h...
(2) He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pill...
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...
It is rather, to my mind, the house of Solomon that prefigures the church, as such, in connection with Christ; the temple, the Father's house on high, where we are brought to dwell. "We are his house...
AND THERE WERE WINDOWS IN THREE ROWS,.... Both in the second and third stories, east, north, and south, there being none in the west, where the porch stood: AND LIGHT WAS AGAINST LIGHT IN THREE RANKS...
And [there were] windows [in] three rows, and light [was] against light [in] three ranks. Ver. 4. _In three rows,_] _i.e., _ In three stories, called also ranks here. _ And light was against light._...
_Fifteen in a row_ So in this second story there were only three rows of pillars, which were sufficient for the ornament of the second and for the support of the third story; and we may conjecture fro...
1 The building of Solomons house. 2 Of the house of Lebanon. 6 Of the porch of pillars. 7 Of the porch of Iudgement. 8 Of the house for Pharaohs daughter. 13 Hirams worke of the two pillars. 23...
And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks, literally, "And layers of joists there were three rows, and prospect over against prospect three times," that is, the...
Solomon's Palace...
THREE MORE HOUSES (vs.1-12) Only one verse speaks of Solomon's own house, which took 13 years to build. However, the order of that house is seen in chapter 10:4-5. This is typical of the Church of Go...
LIGHT WAS AGAINST LIGHT: _ Heb._ sight against sight...
1-12 All Solomon's buildings, though beautiful, were intended for use. Solomon began with the temple; he built for God first, and then his other buildings. The surest foundations of lasting prosperity...
LIGHT WAS AGAINST LIGHT; one directly opposite or answering to the other, as is usual in well-contrived buildings. In three ranks; one exactly under another....
1 Kings 7:4 windows H8261 three H7969 rows H2905 window H4237 window H4237 three H7969 tiers H6471 windows -...
THE BUILDING OF SOLOMON'S OWN PALACE (1 KINGS 7:1). The building of Solomon's palace complex comes between the description of the building of the Temple and the further details of the completion of th...
CONTENTS: Work on the temple and Solomon's house. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, Hiram. CONCLUSION: God who is best should be served and honored with our best. KEY WORD: Work ended, 1 Kings 7:51. STRON...
1 Kings 7:1. _Solomon was thirteen years_ in building his own palace in Jerusalem, because fewer workmen were employed, many of whom were still engaged on the exterior parts of the temple. 1 Kings 7:2...
_Solomon was building his own house thirteen years._ BUILDING GOD’S HOUSE AND ONE’S OWN A very curious thing this, that whilst Solomon was building the temple of God he was also building his own hous...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 7:2 THE HOUSE OF THE FOREST OF LEBANON, just the first of several buildings in the palace complex, was much bigger than the temple (see 1 Kings 6:2
THE SPLENDOUR OF SOLOMON’S BUILDINGS CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 7:1. SOLOMON WAS BUILDING HIS OWN HOUSE THIRTEEN YEARS—Because no previous building preparations had been made for the pa...
EXPOSITION SOLOMON'S PALACES AND THE PREPARATION OF THE TEMPLE VESSELS.—The first twelve verses of this chapter constitute a break in the long account of the Temple, its furniture and its consecration...
But Solomon was building his own house for thirteen years, and he finished all of his house (1 Kings 7:1). So it shows where his priorities began to turn. Seven years building the house of God, then t...
1 Kings 6:4; 1 Kings 7:5; Isaiah 41:26; Isaiah 54:12...