Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
1 Kings 6:38
throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it:
Or, with all the appurtenances thereof, and with all the ordinances thereof
throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it:
Or, with all the appurtenances thereof, and with all the ordinances thereof
Verse 1 Kings 6:38. _IN THE ELEVENTH YEAR - WAS THE HOUSE FINISHED_] It is rather strange that this house required _seven_ years and about six months to put all the stones and the timbers in their pl...
SEVEN YEARS - More exactly, “seven years and six months,” since Zif was the second, and Bul the eighth month. 1 Kings 6:1....
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...
EIGHTH MONTH. See note on 1 Kings 6:1, and compare Dedication later, in "seventh month" (1 Kings 8:2); so that more than one, and probably three, years in completing the appointments. PARTS. appointm...
_in the month Bul_ This month is only mentioned here. The name is derived from the same root as _mabbul_= the deluge, and intimates that the character of the month was rainy. The later name of the mon...
SO WAS HE SEVEN YEARS IN BUILDING IT— That is, speaking in a round number; for he was, in fact, seven years and six months; nor is this mode of speaking unusual in Scripture. The _temple_ itself, inde...
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...
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 MONTH BUL] Corresponding to October-November. As this was the eighth month and the Temple was begun in the second, the time actually occupied in its construction was, in strictness, 7 1/2 years....
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...
BUL (the month of “rain”) to about November. The whole time occupied was, therefore, seven years and a half....
וּ בַ † שָּׁנָה֩ הָ אַחַ֨ת עֶשְׂרֵ֜ה...
1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1 THE TEMPLE 1 Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 6:1;...
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...
BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
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 in the eleventh year, in the month (p) Bul, which [is] the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in b...
Bul, afterwards styled Marchesvan. Pagnin thinks that the former name alludes to "the inundation" of rain, at that season, corresponding with our October and November. Chaldean, "the month of collecte...
REFLECTIONS PAUSE, Reader, over this chapter, and while beholding the vast design of Solomon's temple and the greatness of the work in the accomplishment of the building, behold that a greater than So...
(37) In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif: (38) And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughou...
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...
IN THE ELEVENTH YEAR,.... That is, of the reign of Solomon: IN THE MONTH BUL, [WHICH IS] THE EIGHTH MONTH; from the month Abib or Nisan; this month answers to part of our October, and part of Novembe...
And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which [is] the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in build...
_In the fourth year_, &c. This was mentioned 1 Kings 6:1, and is here repeated to subjoin, in the next words, how long the house was in building. _In the eleventh year, in the month Bul_ As the second...
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....
and in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof and according to all the fashion of it, as it had been planned. SO WAS HE...
The Ornamentation of the Temple...
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...
SEVEN YEARS COMPLETE, and six months, as appears by computation. But smaller sums are usually neglected, and swallowed up in the greater, both in Scripture, as JUDGES 20:46 2 SAMUEL 5:4 1 KINGS 2:11,...
1 Kings 6:38 eleventh H259 H6240 year H8141 month H3391 Bul H945 eighth H8066 month H2320 house H1004 finished...
BUL Eighth monththat is, November....
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...
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 6:1; 1 Kings 6:9; 1 Kings 7:1; Ezra 3:8; Ezra 6:14;...
Seven years — It is not strange that this work took up so much time: for, The temple properly so called, was for quantity the least part of it, there being very many and great buildings both above gro...