_THEN SOLOMON BEGAN TO BUILD THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AT JERUSALEM IN MOUNT MORIAH, WHERE THE LORD APPEARED UNTO DAVID HIS FATHER, IN THE PLACE THAT DAVID HAD PREPARED IN THE THRESHINGFLOOR OF ORNAN THE JEBUSITE._ MOUNT MORIAH, WHERE THE LORD APPEARED UNTO DAVID. These words seem to intimate that the r... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE BEGAN TO BUILD IN THE SECOND DAY OF THE SECOND MONTH, IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN._ _ AND HE BEGAN TO BUILD IN THE SECOND DAY OF THE SECOND MONTH, IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THESE ARE THE THINGS WHEREIN SOLOMON WAS INSTRUCTED FOR THE BUILDING OF THE HOUSE OF GOD. THE LENGTH BY CUBITS AFTER THE FIRST MEASURE WAS THREESCORE CUBITS, AND THE BREADTH TWENTY CUBITS._ These are the things wherein Solomon was instructed - by the written plan and specifications given him b... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PORCH THAT WAS IN THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE, THE LENGTH OF IT WAS ACCORDING TO THE BREADTH OF THE HOUSE, TWENTY CUBITS, AND THE HEIGHT WAS AN HUNDRED AND TWENTY: AND HE OVERLAID IT WITHIN WITH PURE GOLD._ The porch. The breadth of the house, whose length ran from east to west, is here given a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE GREATER HOUSE HE CIELED WITH FIR TREE, WHICH HE OVERLAID WITH FINE GOLD, AND SET THEREON PALM TREES AND CHAINS._ THE GREATER HOUSE - i:e., the holy places, the front or outer chamber (see the note at 1 Kings 6:17).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE GARNISHED THE HOUSE WITH PRECIOUS STONES FOR BEAUTY: AND THE GOLD WAS GOLD OF PARVAIM._ He garnished the house with precious stones for beauty -better, he paved the house with precious and beautiful marble (Kitto). It may be, after all, that these were stones with veins of different colours... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE OVERLAID ALSO THE HOUSE, THE BEAMS, THE POSTS, AND THE WALLS THEREOF, AND THE DOORS THEREOF, WITH GOLD; AND GRAVED CHERUBIMS ON THE WALLS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE MADE THE MOST HOLY HOUSE, THE LENGTH WHEREOF WAS ACCORDING TO THE BREADTH OF THE HOUSE, TWENTY CUBITS, AND THE BREADTH THEREOF TWENTY CUBITS: AND HE OVERLAID IT WITH FINE GOLD, AMOUNTING TO SIX HUNDRED TALENTS._ The most holy house. It was a perfect cube (cf. 1 Kings 6:20). OVERLAID IT WI... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WEIGHT OF THE NAILS WAS FIFTY SHEKELS OF GOLD. AND HE OVERLAID THE UPPER CHAMBERS WITH GOLD._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IN THE MOST HOLY HOUSE HE MADE TWO CHERUBIMS OF IMAGE WORK, AND OVERLAID THEM WITH GOLD._ Two cherubim. These figures in the tabernacle were of pure gold (Exodus 25:1), and over-shadowed the mercy-seat. The two placed in the temple were made of olive wood, overlaid with gold. They were of colo... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WINGS OF THE CHERUBIMS WERE TWENTY CUBITS LONG: ONE WING OF THE ONE CHERUB WAS FIVE CUBITS, REACHING TO THE WALL OF THE HOUSE: AND THE OTHER WING WAS LIKEWISE FIVE CUBITS, REACHING TO THE WING OF THE OTHER CHERUB._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE MADE THE VAIL OF BLUE, AND PURPLE, AND CRIMSON, AND FINE LINEN, AND WROUGHT CHERUBIMS THEREON._ And he made the veil, х_ HAPAAROKET_ (H6532)] - the divider, the separater, between the Holy and the most Holy Place. [Septuagint, katapetasma, a thing spread over, a curtain or veil.] The united... [ Continue Reading ]