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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Kings 6:16

He built.. on the sides, etc.] RV 'he built.. on the hinder part,' etc. This, as appears from a comparison of the measurements given in 1 Kings 6:2 and 1 Kings 6:17, does not mean that the Most Holy Place (or Oracle) was an additional structure built on the rear of the house, but that it was an apartment formed within the house (cp. 1 Kings 6:19) at its W. end by the erection of a partition made with boards of cedar. As its length, breadth and height were each 20 cubits (1 Kings 6:20), its form internally was a perfect cube, though externally it was perhaps of the same elevation as the rest of the buildings.

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See also 1 Kings 6:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The meaning is, that at the distance of 20 cubits, measured along the side walls of the house from the end wall, Solomon constructed a partition, which reached from the floor to the ceiling and had a...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house_ This rendering does not make very clear what is intended. The word translated -sides" is often used for the innermost part of anything, as of a c...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND HE BUILT TWENTY CUBITS ON THE SIDES OF THE HOUSE, BOTH THE FLOOR AND THE WALLS WITH BOARDS OF CEDAR: HE EVEN BUILT THEM FOR IT WITHIN, EVEN FOR THE ORACLE, EVEN FOR THE MOST HOLY PLACE._ No JFB...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    6:16 walls, (f-16) Or 'from the floor to the top of the walls.' place. (g-35) Lit. 'holy of holies.' so elsewhere....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּבֶן֩ אֶת ־עֶשְׂרִ֨ים אַמָּ֜ה _מִֽ_†_יַּרְכְּתֵ֤י_†...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1 THE TEMPLE 1 Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 6:1;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _The inner house of the oracle. That is, the sanctuary, which he separated from the other part of the temple, with this partition of cedar, instead of the veil, which in the tabernacle of Moses hung b...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HE BUILT TWENTY CUBITS ON THE SIDES OF THE HOUSE,.... At the end or extremity of it, as the Targum; that is, he built the most holy place, which was twenty two cubits long, at the end of the holy...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built [them] for it within, [even] for the oracle, [even] for the most holy [place]. V...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _He built twenty cubits on the sides of the house_ He speaks here of the _most holy place_, which contained in length _twenty cubits_, and might be said to be _on the sides of the house_, because it t...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, the rear or western end of the entire Sanctuary, BOTH THE FLOOR AND THE WALLS WITH BOARDS OF CEDAR, from the floor to the beams of the ceiling; HE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Ornamentation of the Temple...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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,...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TWENTY CUBITS ON THE SIDES OF THE HOUSE, i.e. the most holy place, which contained in the length of the house twenty cubits, by comparing this with 1 KINGS 6:2,17, which may be said to be _on the side...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 6:16 built H1129 (H8799) -cubit H520 rear H3411 temple H1004 H4480 floor H7172 ceiling H7023 cedar...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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 Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 6:19; 1 Kings 6:20; 1 Kings 6:5; 1 Kings 8:6; 2 Chronicles 3:8;

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    House — That is, the most holy place, which contained in length twenty cubits, which may be said to be on the sides Of the house, because this part took off twenty cubits in length from each side of t...

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