1 Chronicles 28:11 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Chronicles 28:11-21

As for the general charge that David gave his son to seek God and serve him, the book of the law was, in that, his only rule, and there needed no other; but, in building the temple, David was now to give him three things:?1. A model of the building, because it was to be such a building as neither he nor his architects ever saw. Moses had a pattern of the tabernacle shown him in the mount (Heb. 8:5), so had David of the temple, by the immediate hand of God upon him, 1 Chron. 28:19. It was given... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 28:11

Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch ,.... The breadth, and length, and height of it, which was to be placed at the east end of the temple, and was the entrance into it: and, of the houses thereof ; the holy place, and the most holy, which latter is called the greater house, 2 Chronicles 3:5 , and of the treasures ; where things belonging to the temple were laid up, the priests' vestments, and other things: and of the upper chambers ; where the priests... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 28:11

David gave to Solomon - the pattern - He gave him an ichnograph of the building, with elevations, sections, and specifications of every part; and all this he received by inspiration from God himself, (see 1 Chronicles 28:12 , 1 Chronicles 28:19 ;), just as Moses had received the plan of the tabernacle. The treasuries thereof - גנזכיו ganzaccaiv . The word גנזך ganzach is not Hebrew, but is supposed to be Persian, the same word being found in Ezra 3:1-13 ; :19.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 28:11

The patterns of six parts of the future building are here delivered over to Solomon. 1 . The porch ; הָאוּלָם ( 1 Kings 6:3 ; 1 Kings 7:6 ; Ezekiel 40:7 ; Ezekiel 8:16 ; Joel 2:17 ; 2 Chronicles 3:4 , where we read that the length was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred and twenty cubits; 2 Chronicles 8:12 ; 2 Chronicles 15:8 ; 2 Chronicles 29:7 , 2 Chronicles 29:17 ); Septuagint, τὸ αἰλὰμ τοῦ rang generally, but in this verse τοῦ ναοῦ is all... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Chronicles 28:11-19

These hints respecting the parts of the building that was to be, and respecting the furniture of it, will come in for fuller consideration in the fuller treatment of them, found in the narration of the actual construction of the building in 2 Chronicles compared with 2 Kings 6:1-33 ; etc. It is evident that David desired to make a solemn and set business of handing over even the patterns and plans. Nor is this under any circumstances wonderful, but least of all considering their Divine... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Chronicles 28:11

Compare 1 Chronicles 28:19. As God had revealed to Moses the pattern of the tabernacle Exodus 26:0; Exodus 27:0, so He had made known by revelation to David the pattern of the temple and its furniture. This pattern, which consisted of a set of directions in writing, David now handed over to Solomon.The houses - The “holy place” and the “holy of holies “ - called respectively “the house” and the “inner house” 1 Kings 6:17, 1 Kings 6:27, and 2 Chronicles 3:5, 2 Chronicles 3:8 “the greater house”... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Chronicles 28:11

1 Chronicles 28:11 . David gave Solomon the pattern of the porch To wit, of the temple, which is necessarily to be understood. And of the houses thereof The houses of the temple, namely, of the holy place, and the holy of holies. And of the inner parlours thereof Those rooms which were made against the walls of the house round about, 1 Kings 6:5. And of the place of the mercy-seat In what particular part of the holy of holies it was to be placed. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 28:1-21

Solomon presented to the people (28:1-29:30)David had been forced to appoint Solomon as king hastily when he learnt that another son, Adonijah, was plotting to seize the throne for himself (see notes on 1 Kings 1:5-53). That very unceremonious anointing of Solomon was followed soon after by a second anointing, this time with full religious and regal ceremony (see 29:22). This second occasion is the one that the Chronicler refers to here. David presented Solomon to the people as the one who, by... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Chronicles 28:11

the pattern. Same word as of Tabernacle to Moses (Exodus 25:9 , Exodus 25:40 . See Hebrews 9:5 ). thereof: i.e. of the sanctuary. mercy seat = the propitiatory. See note on Exodus 25:17 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Chronicles 28:11

GOD'S OVERRULING PROVIDENCE IN THE TEMPLE'S CONSTRUCTION"Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch of the temple, of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper rooms thereof, and of the place of the mercy-seat."David himself did not invent this pattern, but God gave it to him, having first given it to Moses; and David learned all about it from Exodus 25:10,17-22; 31:7; 40:20; and in Numbers 7:89. The statement in the next verse that David had this... read more