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
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