1 Kings 6:29 carved H7049 (H8804) walls H7023 temple H1004 around H4524 inner H6441 outer H2435 carved H6603 figures H4734 cherubim H3742 trees H8561 open H6362 (H8803) flowers H6731
carved figures - Exodus 36:8; 2 Chronicles 3:14, 2 Chronicles 4:2-5; Psalms 103:20, Psalms 148:2; Luke 2:13-14; Ephesians 3:10; Revelation 5:11-14
palm trees - Psalms 92:12-15; Revelation 7:9
open flowers - Heb. openings of flowers, 1 Kings 6:18, 1 Kings 6:32
Palms, cherubs, and flowers - the main decorations of Solomon’s temple - bear considerable resemblance to the ornamentation of the Assyrians, a circumstance which can scarcely be accidental. WITHIN A...
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...
_within and without_ Both here and in the next verse these words can only refer to the inner and outer rooms, the most holy place and the holy place....
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 FIVE CUBITS WAS THE ONE WING OF THE CHERUB, AND FIVE CUBITS THE OTHER WING OF THE CHERUB: FROM THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE ONE WING UNTO THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE OTHER WERE TEN CUBITS._ No JFB co...
6:29 palm-trees, (a-18) Or 'palms.' and so always....
PALM TREES] Figures of these are frequent on the Assyrian monuments. WITHIN AND WITHOUT] i.e. within and without the dividing partition between the Holy and Most Holy Place, so that both chambers are...
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...
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...
AND HE CARVED. — If we take this literally, we must suppose that this carving of the cherubim and the palm-trees, in addition to the general decoration of the “gourds and open flowers,” was spread ove...
וְ אֵת֩ כָּל ־קִירֹ֨ות הַ בַּ֜יִת מֵסַ֣ב
1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1 THE TEMPLE 1 Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 6:1;...
THE ARK AND THE CHERUBIM 1 Kings 6:23; 1 Kings 8:6. "Jehovah, thundering out of Zion, throned Between the cherubim." - MILTON THE inculcation of truths so deep as the unity, the presence, and the m...
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 divers, &c. Hebrew, "and open (full-blown) flowers within and without" the sanctuary. We read also of chains of gold connected together, 2 Paralipomenon iii. 5. The palm-trees might resemble pill...
(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 CARVED ALL THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE ABOUT WITH CARVED FIGURES OF CHERUBIM, AND PALM TREES, AND OPEN FLOWERS,.... That is, of palm trees, those in full blow: if the cherubim are an emblem of angel...
And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without. Ver. 29. _And he carved all the walls._] See on 1 Kings 6:25...
_He overlaid the cherubims with gold_ It must be observed, there were four cherubim in the most holy place of Solomon's temple; two lesser made by Moses of massy gold, and two larger made by Solomon,...
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 he carved all the walls of the house, the edges being raised and the figures sunken, ROUND ABOUT WITH CARVED FIGURES OF CHERUBIM AND PALM-TREES AND OPEN FLOWERS, buds or flower-work, probably in t...
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,...
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...
CARVED FIGURES OF CHERUBIMS, as signs of the presence and protection of the angels vouchsafed by God to that place. PALM TREES; emblems of that peace and victory over their enemies which the Israelite...
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...
_Carved figures of cherubim and palm trees, and open flowers._ CHERUBIM, PALM TREES, AND OPEN FLOWERS The question cannot but occur, Why this peculiar carving exclusively? Everywhere they looked they...
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; 1 Kings 6:32; 2 Chronicles 3:14; 2 Chronicles 4:2;...
Cherubim — As signs of the presence and protection of the angels vouch — safed by God to that place. Palm — trees — Emblems of that peace and victory over their enemies, which the Israelites duly serv...