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; the difference of ten years being made up of seven years in building (1 Kings 6:38) and three year... [ Continue Reading ]
CUBITS. See App-51.... [ Continue Reading ]
ACCORDING TO. Or, in the front of,... [ Continue Reading ]
ORACLE. See note on 2 Samuel 16:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH. SPAKE UNTO DAVID. Compare 2 Samuel 7:13; 1 Chronicles 22:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
AMONG. in the midst of.... [ Continue Reading ]
COVERED. Note that all the stonework was covered with cedar wood; and the cedar wood covered with gold. Even so the saved sinner is covered with Christ's human and Divine righteousness imputed to him. Compare Luke 15:22.Philippians 1:3; Philippians 1:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
NO STONE SEEN. Figure of speech _Pleonasm._ App-6. Words not necessary for grammar, or sense; but used to emphasize the completeness of our covering by Christ's merits. Compare Ephesians 1:6; Colossians 1:28; Colossians 2:10; Colossians 4:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
OVERLAID. See note on covered, 1 Kings 6:15 and 1 Kings 6:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOLE HOUSE. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Whole). App-6. Put for every part of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
TWO CHERUBIMS. See App-41 OLIVE TREE. oil tree, as in Isaiah 41:19, rendered pine (Nehemiah 8:15); but, _Oleaster_ according to Tristram.... [ Continue Reading ]
TWO doors. two-leaved (or double) doors.... [ Continue Reading ]
DOOR. entrance.... [ Continue Reading ]
ZIF. The second month.... [ Continue Reading ]
EIGHTH MONTH. See note on 1 Kings 6:1, and compare Dedication later, in "seventh month" (1 Kings 8:2); so that more than one, and probably three, years in completing the appointments. PARTS. appointments. SEVEN YEARS. See note on 1 Kings 6:1. Seven years for the building itself, and probably three... [ Continue Reading ]