2 Chronicles 3:1-2 (1 Kings 6:1). The Temple Begun 1. _in mount Moriah_ Genesis 22:2. _in the place that David had prepared_ R.V. WHICH HE MADE READY IN THE PLACE THAT DAVID HAD APPOINTED (following the Hebrew, whereas A.V. leaves the Hebrew and agrees with LXX.). _Ornan the Jebusite_ See 1 Chron... [ Continue Reading ]
_in the second_day] The words are absent from 1 Kings and should probably be omitted here. The year according to 1 Kings was the four hundred and eightieth after the Exodus.... [ Continue Reading ]
3 (1 Kings 6:2). The Measurements of the Temple 3. _these_are the things wherein _Solomon was instructed_ R.V. THESE ARE THE FOUNDATIONS WHICH SOLOMON LAID. _cubits after the first measure_ There were apparently two cubits in use, the ordinary earlier cubit of about 17½ inches (Deuteronomy 3:11 "t... [ Continue Reading ]
4 (1 Kings 6:3). The Porch 4. _And the porch that_was _in the front_of the house] The Hebrew text is faulty, but the sense is probably correctly given in A.V. _the length_of it was _according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits_ R.V. THE LENGTH OF IT, ACCORDING TO THE BREADTH OF THE HOUSE,... [ Continue Reading ]
5 7 (cp. 1Ki 6:15; 1 Kings 6:21; 1 Kings 6:29-30). The Temple 5. _the greater house_ It was _forty_cubits long (1 Kings 6:17), whereas the shrine was _twenty_(1 Kings 6:16; 1 Kings 6:20). _he cieled_ i.e. _lined_or _boarded_. The same Hebrew word is translated _overlaid_in this same verse. _set t... [ Continue Reading ]
_precious stones_ Not mentioned in the parallel account, but according to 1 Kings 5:17 _costly stones_(the same expression in Hebrew) were used for the foundations of the house. Probably here also _costly_rather than _precious_stones are meant. _Parvaim_ Apparently the name of a place, but nothing... [ Continue Reading ]
_the posts_ R.V. THE THRESHOLDS. _cherubims_ Under what form these mysterious beings were represented in the Temple is not known. It has been said that the winged bull of the Assyrian sculptures was sometimes called _kirubu_in Assyrian. If this be true, then _cherub_is perhaps a word borrowed from... [ Continue Reading ]
The Holy of Holies 8. _the most holy house_ Called _the oracle_in 1 Kings 6:16; 1 Kings 6:19 etc., Hebrew _děbîr_, which means rather the _hinder part_. The Lord "dwells" in the inmost recess of the house. amounting _to six hundred talents_ This detail is not found elsewhere. But cp. 1 Chronicles... [ Continue Reading ]
The Cherubim 10. _of image work_ Both the meaning of the phrase and the reading are doubtful; LXX. ἔργον ἐκ ξύλων; 1 Kings 6:23, _of olive wood_(R.V.). _and overlaid_ R.V. AND THEY OVERLAID; but the singular is probably right; LXX. ἐχρύσωσεν : 1 Kings 6:28, _and he overlaid_.... [ Continue Reading ]
one _wing_ R.V. THE WING.... [ Continue Reading ]
_And_one _wing_ R.V. AND THE WING.... [ Continue Reading ]
_twenty cubits_ Extending across the width of the whole house. _on their feet_ Not "couchant" nor "rampant" but standing as the winged bulls of Assyria stand. _inward_ R.V. TOWARDS THE HOUSE, as though to protect the Holiest Place from violation from anyone advancing through the house.... [ Continue Reading ]
(cp. Exodus 26:31-32). The Vail No _vail_for Solomon's Temple is mentioned in 1 Kings, but (1 Kings 6:31-32) _doors_of olive wood with cherubim carved upon them stood at the entrance of the Holy of Holies. The vail here described seems to have been borrowed by the Chronicler from the account of the... [ Continue Reading ]
(1 Kings 7:15-22). The Pillars Jachin and Boaz 15. _before the house two pillars_ Cp. 1 Kings 7:21, _he set up the pillars at the porch of the temple_, and Jeremiah 52:17 (translate, _the pillars … that belonged to the house_). These pillars were immediately in front of the porch, but (it seems) det... [ Continue Reading ]
_he made chains_, as _in the oracle_ R.V. HE MADE CHAINS IN THE ORACLE. The words, _in the oracle_, though found in LXX., are probably a gloss introduced from 1 Kings 6:21 (_chains … before the oracle_). The Chronicler is here speaking of the _outside_of the Temple, having already described the "ora... [ Continue Reading ]
_he reared up_ R.V. HE SET UP (as in 1 Kings 7:21). _Jachin … Boaz_ R.V. mg. translates the two words; _Jachin_"he shall establish," _Boaz_perhaps "In it is strength." LXX. gives Κατόρθωσις ("setting up") and Ἰσχύς ("strength"). The meaning of _Boaz_is quite uncertain.... [ Continue Reading ]