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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Kings 6:2

The house] The Temple was built on the N. of the hill upon which Zion, 'the city of David,' stood, there being an ascent from the latter to the former (see 1 Kings 8:1). Its site had originally been occupied by Araunah's threshing-floor (2 Chronicles 3:1). For its position relative to the rest of Solomon's buildings see on 1 Kings 7:9.

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See also 1 Kings 6:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Kings 6:2. _THE LENGTH THEREOF_ WAS _THREESCORE CUBITS_] A cubit, according to Bishop Cumberland, is 21 inches, and 888 decimals, or 1 foot, 9 inches, and 888 decimals....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The size of Solomon’s temple depends upon the true length of the ancient cubit, which is doubtful. It has been estimated as somewhat less than a foot, and again as between 19 and 20 inches, a differen...

  • 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

    CUBITS. See App-51....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the length thereof was threescore cubits_ In dimension the Temple was twice the size of the Tabernacle. The latter was 30 cubits long, 10 cubits wide and 15 cubits high in the holy place. See Ferguss...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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)...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE HOUSE WHICH KING SOLOMON BUILT FOR THE LORD, THE LENGTH THEREOF WAS THREESCORE CUBITS, AND THE BREADTH THEREOF TWENTY CUBITS, AND THE HEIGHT THEREOF THIRTY CUBITS._ The house which king Solo...

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE LENGTH. — By comparison with Exodus 26:16, we find that the Temple itself was in all its proportions an exact copy of the Tabernacle, each dimension being doubled, and the whole, therefore, in cub...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הַ בַּ֗יִת אֲשֶׁ֨ר בָּנָ֜ה הַ מֶּ֤לֶךְ

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    House. Hebrew Habayith, "the palace" of the God of Israel, where the priests alone had access. It was surrounded by various courts and apartments, as the ancient temples were very different from ours....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (2) And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits. It appears that the pat...

  • 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 HOUSE WHICH KING SOLOMON BUILT FOR THE LORD,.... For his worship, honour, and glory: THE LENGTH THEREOF [WAS] THREESCORE CUBITS; sixty cubits from east to west, including the holy place and t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty [cubits], and the height thereof thirty cubits._ Ver. 2. _And the hous...

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

    _The house_ Properly so called, as distinct from all the walls and buildings adjoining to it; namely, the holy and most holy place. _Which King Solomon built for the Lord_ For his worship and service;...

  • 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 house which King Solomon built for the Lord, the length thereof, of the main building, of the Sanctuary proper, WAS THREESCORE CUBITS, inside measure, the cubit used in this case being either...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE BUILDING ITSELF...

  • 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

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE HOUSE; properly so called, as distinct from all the walls and buildings which were adjoining to it, to wit, the holy and most holy place. THE LENGTH THEREOF; from east and to west. And this and th...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 6:2 house H1004 King H4428 Solomon H8010 built H1129 (H8804) LORD H3068 length H753 sixty H8346 cubits...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • 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 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

    Ezekiel 41:1; Ezekiel 41:26; Ezra 6:3; Ezra 6:4; Revelation 21:16;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The house — Properly so called, as distinct from all the walls and buildings which were adjoining to it; namely, the holy, and most holy place. Length — From east, to west. And this and the other meas...

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