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Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 6:1-38

Chapter 6So 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 the second month, they began the building of the temple. Now the temple was to be ninety feet long and thirty feet wide, and forty-five feet tall ( 1 Kings 6:1-2 ).So if you can picture now in your mind, ninety feet is just about from the edge of the platform here to the back door. So that's... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 6:1-38

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 summary seems to contain the chronology. Moses in the desert 40 Numbers 14:33 Joshua in war and peace 17 Not named The Judges 299 Usher’s chronology Eli’s presidency 40 1 Samuel 4:18 Samuel and Saul 40 David 40 1 Kings 2:11 Solomon 4 Solomon’s 4th year 480 years. 1 Kings 6:26 . One cherub was... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Kings 6:18

1 Kings 6:18No stone seen.The temple of God flawless“All was cedar; there was no stone seen.” Take stone in the type for that which was really so, and in the antitype for that which is so mystically, and then it may import to us, that in heaven, the antitype of this holiest, there will never be anything of hardness of heart in them that possess it for ever. All imperfection ariseth from the badness of the heart, but there will be no bad hearts in glory. No shortness in knowledge, no crossness... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 6:18

1Ki 6:18 And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knops and open flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen. Ver. 18. Carved with knops and open flowers. ] To show the multifarious flourishing graces that are in Christ and Christians. For in this piece of Scripture, by a specialty, we may say with Possevine, Tot esse sacramenta quot literas, tot mysteria quot puncta, tot arcana quot apices; a there are so many words, so many mysteries. a Biblioth. Select. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Kings 6:18

knops: or, gourds, Pekaim, "artificial knops," in the shape of colocynths, or wild gourds, as the word denotes (see note on 2 Kings 4:39), the full-blown flowers of which must have been very ornamental. open flowers: or, openings of flowers, 1 Kings 6:18 Reciprocal: Exodus 25:31 - his knops 1 Kings 6:29 - open flowers 1 Kings 6:32 - open flowers 1 Kings 7:19 - lily work 1 Kings 7:24 - knops 1 Kings 7:26 - with flowers 2 Chronicles 4:3 - oxen 2 Chronicles 4:21 - the flowers Psalms 74:6 - ... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 1 Kings 6:18

And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.Cedar — Cedar is here named, not to exclude all other wood, but stone only; as the following words shew. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 6:18

18. Carved with knops Or, gourds, as in margin, and as the kindred word is rendered in 2 Kings 4:39. The carving was an artificial imitation of wild gourds or cucumbers. Open flowers Flowers in full bloom. Hence probably a carved imitation of festoons or garlands. read more