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Palms, cherubs, and flowers - the main decorations of Solomon’s
temple - bear considerable resemblance to the ornamentation of the
Assyrians, a circumstance which can scarcely be accidental.
WITHIN A...
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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...
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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...
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_within and without_ Both here and in the next verse these words can
only refer to the inner and outer rooms, the most holy place and the
holy place....
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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...
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_AND FIVE CUBITS WAS THE ONE WING OF THE CHERUB, AND FIVE CUBITS THE
OTHER WING OF THE CHERUB: FROM THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE ONE WING UNTO
THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE OTHER WERE TEN CUBITS._
No JFB co...
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6:29 palm-trees, (a-18) Or 'palms.' and so always....
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PALM TREES] Figures of these are frequent on the Assyrian monuments.
WITHIN AND WITHOUT] i.e. within and without the dividing partition
between the Holy and Most Holy Place, so that both chambers are...
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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...
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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...
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AND HE CARVED. — If we take this literally, we must suppose that
this carving of the cherubim and the palm-trees, in addition to the
general decoration of the “gourds and open flowers,” was spread
ove...
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וְ אֵת֩ כָּל ־קִירֹ֨ות הַ בַּ֜יִת
מֵסַ֣ב
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1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1
THE TEMPLE
1 Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 6:1;...
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THE ARK AND THE CHERUBIM
1 Kings 6:23; 1 Kings 8:6.
"Jehovah, thundering out of Zion, throned Between the cherubim."
- MILTON
THE inculcation of truths so deep as the unity, the presence, and the
m...
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BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS
1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
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CARVED; OVERLAID; FINISHED
1 Kings 6:29
The meaning of 1 Kings 6:31 is uncertain. We gather that the door of
the inner shrine was made of wild-olive wood and in two parts, and
that it occupied a fift...
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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...
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_And divers, &c. Hebrew, "and open (full-blown) flowers within and
without" the sanctuary. We read also of chains of gold connected
together, 2 Paralipomenon iii. 5. The palm-trees might resemble
pill...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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AND HE CARVED ALL THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE ABOUT WITH CARVED FIGURES OF
CHERUBIM, AND PALM TREES, AND OPEN FLOWERS,.... That is, of palm
trees, those in full blow: if the cherubim are an emblem of angel...
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And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved
figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and
without.
Ver. 29. _And he carved all the walls._] See on 1 Kings 6:25...
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_He overlaid the cherubims with gold_ It must be observed, there were
four cherubim in the most holy place of Solomon's temple; two lesser
made by Moses of massy gold, and two larger made by Solomon,...
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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....
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And he carved all the walls of the house, the edges being raised and
the figures sunken, ROUND ABOUT WITH CARVED FIGURES OF CHERUBIM AND
PALM-TREES AND OPEN FLOWERS, buds or flower-work, probably in t...
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The Ornamentation of the Temple...
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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,...
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OPEN FLOWERS:
_ Heb._ openings of flowers...
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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...
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CARVED FIGURES OF CHERUBIMS, as signs of the presence and protection
of the angels vouchsafed by God to that place. PALM TREES; emblems of
that peace and victory over their enemies which the Israelite...
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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...
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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...
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_Carved figures of cherubim and palm trees, and open flowers._
CHERUBIM, PALM TREES, AND OPEN FLOWERS
The question cannot but occur, Why this peculiar carving exclusively?
Everywhere they looked they...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 6:18; 1 Kings 6:32; 2 Chronicles 3:14; 2 Chronicles 4:2;...
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Cherubim — As signs of the presence and protection of the angels
vouch — safed by God to that place. Palm — trees — Emblems of
that peace and victory over their enemies, which the Israelites duly
serv...