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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

1 Kings 6:22

The lavish use of the precious metals in ornamentation was a special feature if early Oriental architecture. Recent researches have given reason to believe that two stages of the great temple at Borsippa - now known as the Bits Nimrud - had respectively a gold and a silver coating.

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See also 1 Kings 6:22 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Kings 6:22. _THE WHOLE HOUSE HE OVERLAID WITH GOLD_] It is impossible to calculate this expense, or the quantity of gold employed in this sacred building....

  • 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

    WHOLE HOUSE. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Whole). App-6. Put for every part of it....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the whole altar that_was _by the oracle_ The preposition is not significant of position, but of possession. Read -the whole altar that BELONGED TO the oracle." The priest who offered incense continua...

  • 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 THE WHOLE HOUSE HE OVERLAID WITH GOLD, UNTIL HE HAD FINISHED ALL THE HOUSE: ALSO THE WHOLE ALTAR THAT WAS BY THE ORACLE HE OVERLAID WITH GOLD._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    BY THE ORACLE] The altar was not actually within the oracle but near it....

  • 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

    וְ אֶת ־כָּל ־הַ בַּ֛יִת צִפָּ֥ה זָהָ֖ב

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the (l) whole altar that [was] by the oracle he overlaid with gold. (l) Meaning, the altar of incense, (Exodus 30:...

  • 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 THE WHOLE HOUSE HE OVERLAID WITH GOLD,.... Both the holy place, and the most holy place: UNTIL HE HAD FINISHED ALL THE HOUSE; in this splendid and glorious manner: ALSO THE WHOLE ALTAR THAT [WAS...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that [was] by the oracle he overlaid with gold. Ver. 22. _And the whole house he overlaid with gol...

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

    _And the whole house he overlaid with gold_ Not only the oracle, but all the holy place; and, as some think, even the chambers belonging to it. _Also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid...

  • 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 the whole house, both rooms of the Sanctuary, HE OVERLAID WITH GOLD, UNTIL HE HAD FINISHED ALL THE HOUSE; ALSO THE WHOLE ALTAR THAT WAS BY THE ORACLE, the altar of incense, HE OVERLAID WITH GOLD....

  • 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

    THE WHOLE HOUSE; not only the oracle, but all the holy place; and, as some add, even the chambers belonging to it. THE WHOLE ALTAR THAT WAS BY THE ORACLE, i.e. the altar of incense, which was set in t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 6:22 temple H1004 overlaid H6823 (H8765) gold H2091 finished H8552 (H8800) temple H1004 overlaid H6823 ...

  • 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 6:20; 2 Chronicles 3:7; Exodus 30:1; Exodus 30:3; Exodus 30:5;

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Whole house — Not only the oracle, but all the holy place. The altar — the altar of incense, which was set in the holy place close by the doors of the oracle. With gold — As before he overlaid it with...

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