_DAVID, HAVING ASSEMBLED THE PRINCES, DECLARES TO THEM THAT THE TEMPLE WAS TO BE BUILT BY SOLOMON: HE EXHORTS THEM TO OBEY THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. HE DELIVERS TO SOLOMON THE PATTERNS OF THE FUTURE TEMPLE._ _Before Christ 1015._... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE FOOTSTOOL OF OUR GOD— Rather _even for the footstool of our God._ See Lamentations 2:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
KEEP, &C.— _I conjure you to keep,_ &c. Houbigant and Le Clerc.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN DAVID GAVE TO SOLOMON HIS SON THE PATTERN— It appears evidently from the remainder of this chapter, that the Lord did by David, as by Moses heretofore; giving him an exact pattern or model, not only of the temple which was to be built, but of all the furniture and utensils hereof. See Exodus 25... [ Continue Reading ]
GOLD FOR THE PATTERN OF THE CHARIOT OF THE CHERUBIMS— _Lastly, a pattern of the situation of the cherubim, how they should spread their wings, and cover the ark,_ &c. For the meaning of the word רכב _rakab_ is, _to sit, to be placed upon._ "We should say in French," says Houbigant, _"la position et... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THIS, SAID DAVID, THE LORD MADE ME UNDERSTAND, &C.— _All these were delineated, as the Lord gave him understanding, of all the work which the pattern set forth._ Houbigant. That the architecture of the temple was of divine original, I, for my part, am fully satisfied from this passage; and I am... [ Continue Reading ]