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Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

1 Kings 6:1

1 Kin. 6. It appears that the temple was a type of Christ, inasmuch as Christ is said to be the temple of the new Jerusalem, in the Revelation, and because he calls himself this temple. So the tabernacle before. Hence the reason why they were commanded to sacrifice no where else; why they were commanded to look to it in their prayers, etc.

1 Kin. 6:7

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

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER VI _In the four hundred and eightieth year from the exodus, in the_ _fourth year of Solomon's reign, and in the second month, he_ _laid the foundations of the temple; the length_ sixty _cub...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IN THE FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTIETH YEAR - It is upon this statement that all the earlier portion of what is called the “received chronology” depends. Amid Minor differences there is a general agreement...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTIETH YEAR. Note max the number is Greek _inal_ (not Cardinal). the 480th year of some longer and larger period, viz. the 490 years from the Exodus to the Dedication of the Temple...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    1 Kings 6:1-10. Commencement and dimensions of Solomon's Temple (2 Chronicles 3:1-2) 1. _in the four hundred and eightieth year_, &c. It is impossible to discover how this date is arrived at, or to ma...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF SOLOMON'S REIGN— If it be asked, why Solomon did not begin the building of the temple sooner, and even in the first year of his reign, since his father had left him a plan, and a...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    II. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE TEMPLE 6:1-38 Chapter six is designed to present a word picture of Solomon's Temple. The material presented here is sufficient to allow one to get a general idea of what tha...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTIETH YEAR AFTER THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE COME OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF SOLOMON'S REIGN OVER ISRAEL, IN THE MONTH ZIF, WHICH...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTIETH YEAR] The sum of the periods mentioned or implied in the previous books since the exodus much exceeds this figure. The real length of the interval is uncertain, and the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IN THE FOURTH YEAR. — This date, given with marked precision, forms a most important epoch in the history of Israel, on which, indeed, much of the received chronology is based. In the LXX., 440 is rea...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִ֣י בִ שְׁמֹונִ֣ים שָׁנָ֣ה וְ אַרְבַּ֣ע

  • 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

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month (a) Zif, whi...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Eightieth year. This chronology meets with the approbation of most people. See Usher. (Chap. xii.) Some, however, find a difficulty in reconciling it with Acts xiii. 20., which seems to attribute 450...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS This chapter furnisheth a number of interesting particulars concerning the building of Solomon's temple. The time it took in building until it was finished. In the earlier part of this servi...

  • 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 IT CAME TO PASS IN THE FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTIETH YEAR AFTER THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE COME OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT,.... The Tyrian writers k make it five hundred sixty years from hence; but th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which ...

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

    _In the four hundred and eightieth year_ Allowing forty years to Moses, seventeen to Joshua, two hundred and ninety-nine to the Judges, forty to Eli, forty to Samuel and Saul, forty to David, and four...

  • 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 it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, this exact chronological statement serving as a guide and norm for the solut...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE BUILDING ITSELF...

  • 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

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    1 KINGS CHAPTER 6 The building of the temple, and the time thereof; the form and largeness, windows, chambers, and materials, 1 KINGS 6:1. God's promise unto it, 1 KINGS 6:11. The ceiling and adorning...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 6:1 four H702 hundred H3967 H8141 eightieth H8084 year H8141 children H1121 Israel H3478 out H3318 ...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    THE HOUSE OF THE LORD The typology of the temple, if indeed it has any typical significance, is most obscure and difficult. The New Testament invariably expounds the typology of the tabernacle, not o...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • 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 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 Chronicles 29:19; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Kings 6:37; 1 Peter 2:5;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Four hundred and four score, &c. — Allowing forty years to Moses, seventeen to Joshua, two hundred ninety — nine to the Judges, forty to Eli, forty to Samuel and Saul, forty to David, and four to Solo...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    How can this be an accurate calculation if Ramses the Great was the Pharaoh of the Exodus? PROBLEM: The predominant view of modern scholarship is that the Pharaoh of the Exodus was Ramses II. If this...

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