1 Kings 7:5
DOORS. entrances.... [ Continue Reading ]
DOORS. entrances.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAWED WITH SAWS. Figure of speech _Ployptoton_. App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
A WIDOW'S. One of nine widows specially mentioned. See note on Genesis 38:19. NAPHTALI: by marriage. By birth, of Dan (2 Chronicles 2:14). Dan furnished Aholiab, one of the builders of the Tabernacle (Exodus 31:6). CUNNING. knowing, or skilful. Compare 1 Samuel 16:18; 1 Chronicles 22:15. WORKS IN... [ Continue Reading ]
CAST. Hebrew fashioned. TWO PILLARS. the two pillars: i.e. the two notable pillars, for ornament, not for support, and hollow (Jeremiah 52:21). EIGHTEEN CUBITS HIGH APIECE. So 2 Kings 25:17 and Jeremiah 52:21. But 2 Chronicles 3:15 (margin) says thirty-five cubits long: i.e. together, the top of ... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPITERS. Old French _chapiteau,_ from Latin. _capitu-lum_. capitals, or crowns. FIVE CUBITS. So 2 Chronicles 3:15. But 2 Kings 25:17 says three cubits, not including the "wreathen" or lattice work, which is described separately, and must have been two cubits.... [ Continue Reading ]
NETS. frames, or net- or lattice-work. These are _included_ in the five cubits here and in 2 Chronicles 3:15, but not in 2 Kings 25:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
BELLY. swell, or protuberance.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE PORCH. for the porch. JACHIN. He (God) will establish. Referring to His BOAZ. In Him (God) is strength, People Israel.... [ Continue Reading ]
MOLTEN SEA. brazen laver. "Sea" put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct) for what contained it. A LINE OF THIRTY CUBITS. Here the proportion of the diameter to the circumference (1 Kings 1:3) was revealed, while human wisdom was still searching it out.... [ Continue Reading ]
TWO THOUSAND. 2 Chronicles 4:5 says three thousand. But 1 Kings 7:26 speaks of what it _did_ (usually) contain; while 2 Chronicles 4:5 speaks of what it _could_ " receive and hold". No bath in use is filled to its full capacity. BATHS. See App-51.... [ Continue Reading ]
BORDERS. panels, or enclosures.... [ Continue Reading ]
ADDITIONS. connections. Probably wreaths. Occurs only here and 1 Kings 7:29 1 Kings 7:30, 1 Kings 7:36.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEELS: showing that these lavers were movable; and indicating that when "that which is perfect should come (viz. the washing with spirit, Acts 1:5), the type (water) was to be wheeled away". PLATES. axletrees. UNDERSETTERS. projections, or supports. AT THE SIDE OF. opposite.... [ Continue Reading ]
BORDERS. panels. Removed by Ahaz (2 Kings 16:17). Replaced by Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 29:19). Existed at taking of Temple (Jeremiah 52:17; Jeremiah 52:20).... [ Continue Reading ]
NAVES. felloes. FELLOES. spokes. SPOKES. naves.... [ Continue Reading ]
PROPORTION: i.e. on. reduced scale, as the plates required.... [ Continue Reading ]
LAVERS. cauldrons (for boiling the peace offerings). Some codices, with three early printed editions, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "pans". Compare 1 Kings 7:45 and 2 Chronicles 4:11. MADE. made for.... [ Continue Reading ]
NETWORKS. lattices.... [ Continue Reading ]
UPON. upon the face of. Figure of speech _Pleonasm._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOUND OUT. sought out. 4... [ Continue Reading ]
VESSELS. furniture. ALTAR: i.e. the altar of incense. Compare 1 Kings 6:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
CANDLESTICKS. Compare 2 Chronicles 4:20. Solomon exceeded the pattern in number but followed the design in shape. Size not stated. PURE GOLD. In Palestine, gold has the least possible alloy, and is exceedingly malleable.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MOST HOLY PLACE. the holy of holies.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE THINGS WHICH DAVID HIS FATHER HAD DEDICATED. the holy things of David. Hebrew. _kodesh_. See note on Exodus 3:5... [ Continue Reading ]