George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
1 Kings 6:9
Roofs. Protestants, "beams and boards of cedar." None of the stones appeared within, ver. 18. (Haydock)
Roofs. Protestants, "beams and boards of cedar." None of the stones appeared within, ver. 18. (Haydock)
Verse 1 Kings 6:9. _COVERED THE HOUSE WITH BEAMS AND BOARDS OF CEDAR._] The Eastern custom is very different from ours: we _ceil_ with _plaster_, and make our _floors_ of _wood_; they make their _flo...
HE BUILT THE HOUSE, AND FINISHED IT - i. e., the external shell of the house. The internal fittings were added afterward. See 1 Kings 6:15. COVERED THE HOUSE - Roofed it with a wooden roof, sloped li...
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...
_So he built the house_ i.e. The Temple building. The next verse speaks of the enclosing framework of chambers. What was now finished was the portion for divine service. _and covered the house_ i.e. M...
B. THE EXTERIOR OF THE HOUSE 6:2-10 TRANSLATION (2) As for the house which King Solomon built for the LORD: sixty cubits was its length and twenty cubits its breadth and thirty cubits its height. (3)...
_SO HE BUILT THE HOUSE, AND FINISHED IT; AND COVERED THE HOUSE WITH BEAMS AND BOARDS OF CEDAR._ BUILT THE HOUSE. The temple is here distinguished from the wings or chambers attached to it, and its roo...
6:9 covered (a-10) Or 'ceiled,' see Jeremiah 22:14 ....
COVERED THE HOUSE] Roofed or cieled it. Whether the roof was flat or gable-shaped is uncertain, though, as houses were generally flat-topped, this was probably no exception....
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...
(5-10) The general meaning of these verses is clear, though some of the words are doubtful. Round three sides of the Temple was built a kind of aisle, opening, however, outwards and not into the Templ...
וַ יִּ֥בֶן אֶת ־הַ בַּ֖יִת וַ יְכַלֵּ֑הוּ
1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1 THE TEMPLE 1 Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 6:1;...
BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
THE PLAN OF THE LORD'S HOUSE 1 Kings 6:1 The Temple was twice the size of the Tabernacle-ninety feet long by thirty feet broad, and forty-five feet high. The plan had been given to David by revelatio...
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...
So he built the (f) house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar. (f) In Exodus it is called the tabernacle, and the temple is here called the sanctuary and the oracle...
(3) And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house. (4) And for the...
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...
SO HE BUILT THE HOUSE, AND FINISHED IT,.... The body of it, the walls of the holy and most holy place, with the chambers on the sides of them, and the porch at the end that led into them: AND COVERED...
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar. Ver. 9. _So he built the house._] _Epilogus est praecedentium._ _a_ And boards of cedar.] Which boards w...
_So he built the house, and finished it_ That is, the walls of the house. _And then he built chambers_ There is nothing in the Hebrew for the word _then_, which being omitted, the sense is, that he he...
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....
So he built the house and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar. This was the roof-construction, a flat roof, whose cedar-beams were covered with cedar-boards, as the roof...
THE BUILDING ITSELF...
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,...
WITH BEAMS AND BOARDS OF CEDAR: Or, the vault beams and the ceilings with Cedar...
1-10 The temple is called the house of the Lord, because it was directed and modelled by him, and was to be employed in his service. This gave it the beauty of holiness, that it was the house of the...
HE BUILT THE HOUSE, AND FINISHED IT, to wit, the bulk and the body of the house. COVERED THE HOUSE, or, _the house_ i.e. the top of the house, for the like is said of the sides and bottom, 1 KINGS 6:1...
1 Kings 6:9 built H1129 (H8799) temple H1004 finished H3615 (H8762) paneled H5603 (H8799) temple H1004 beams...
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...
_He began to build the house of the Lord._ THE TEMPLE BUILT Solomon’s temple is the most wonderful and interesting building in the world’s history. It was “the mysterious centre of Israel.” It was fa...
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 6:14; 1 Kings 6:38...