Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
1 Kings 6:7
The spirit of the command (marginal references), was followed. Thus the fabric rose without noise.
The spirit of the command (marginal references), was followed. Thus the fabric rose without noise.
Verse 1 Kings 6:7. _THE HOUSE - WAS BUILT OF STONE_] It appears that every _stone_ was hewn and squared, and its place in the building _ascertained_, before it came to Jerusalem: the _timbers_ were f...
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...
MADE READY. made perfect. BEFORE: i.e. in the quarries afar off, or beneath the city. HEARD. So in the spiritual house. Ephesians 2:20....
_stone made ready_before it was _brought_thither] The R.V. renders MADE READY AT THE QUARRY with a margin on the last three words -when it was brought away." The final Hebrew word מַסָּע on which the...
DISCOURSE: 331 THE STILLNESS WITH WHICH THE TEMPLE WAS BUILT 1 Kings 6:7. _And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neith...
SO THAT THERE WAS NEITHER HAMMER NOR AXE, &C.— The true reason why no noise was heard in the building of the temple was, that the stones and all other materials were hewn and squared and fitted at a d...
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)...
_AND THE HOUSE, WHEN IT WAS IN BUILDING, WAS BUILT OF STONE MADE READY BEFORE IT WAS BROUGHT THITHER: SO THAT THERE WAS NEITHER HAMMER NOR AXE NOR ANY TOOL OF IRON HEARD IN THE HOUSE, WHILE IT WAS IN...
6:7 thither; (f-20) Or 'built of stones whole from the quarry.'...
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...
וְ הַ בַּ֨יִת֙ בְּ הִבָּ֣נֹתֹ֔ו אֶֽבֶן ־שְׁלֵ
1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1 THE TEMPLE 1 Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 6:1;...
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...
BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
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...
Made ready, &c. So the stones for the building of God's eternal temple, in the heavenly Jerusalem, (who are the faithful) must first be hewn and polished here by many trials and sufferings, before the...
(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...
_‘LIKE SOME TALL PALM THE SILENT FABRIC SPRUNG’_ ‘The house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor ax nor any tool...
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...
AND THE HOUSE, WHEN IT WAS IN BUILDING,.... And all the while it was building: WAS BUILT OF STONE MADE READY BEFORE IT WAS BROUGHT THITHER; being hewn or squared by the builders and stonesquarers of...
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe [nor] any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in...
1 Kin. 6:7. "And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither; so that there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron, heard in the house wh...
_The house was built of stone made ready_ Hewed and squared, and so fitted for their several uses and places, according to the direction of the architect, that they might be joined together without an...
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....
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither, hewn and prepared according to careful measurements at the quarries, SO THAT THERE WAS NEITHER HAMM...
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,...
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...
MADE READY; hewed, and squared, and fitted exactly according to the direction of the architect. No TOOL HEARD IN THE HOUSE, WHILE IT WAS IN BUILDING: so it was ordered, partly, for the case and conven...
1 Kings 6:7 temple H1004 built H1129 (H8736) built H1129 (H8738) stone H68 quarry H8003 H4551 hammer...
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...
_And the house _. .. _ was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither._ LIVING STONES MADE READY FOR THE HEAVENLY TEMPLE In the New Testament the Church is termed “God’s building”--“the...
_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 5:17; 1 Kings 5:18; 1 Peter 2:5; 2 Corinthians 5:5; Acts 9:31;...
Made ready — Hewed, and squared, and fitted exactly according to the direction of the architect. Neither hammer, &c. — So it was ordered, partly for the ease and conveniency of carriage: partly, for t...