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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 6:1-10

Here, I. The temple is called the house of the Lord (1 Kgs. 6:1), because it was, 1. Directed and modelled by him. Infinite Wisdom was the architect, and gave David the plan or pattern by the Spirit, not by word of mouth only, but, for the greater certainty and exactness, in writing (1 Chron. 28:11, 12), as he had given to Moses in the mouth a draught of the tabernacle. 2. Dedicated and devoted to him and to his honour, to be employed in his service, so his as never any other house was, for he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 6:4

And for the house he made windows of narrow lights. Or "open, shut" F15 אטמים שקפים "apertas clausas", Vatablus; "perspectui accommodas, clausas", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. , which could be both, having shutters to them, to open or shut at pleasure; windows which they could open, and look through at them, or shut when they pleased; the Targum is, "open within, and shut without;' or, as others understand it, they were wide within, and narrow without; by being narrow... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 6:5

And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about ,.... Or near it, as Jarchi interprets it, for the beams of them were not fastened in in it, 1 Kings 6:6 ; or rather "upon" it F16 על קיר "super parietem", V. L. Montanus. ; and when they are said to be round about the house, it must be understood of the two sides, north and south, and of the west end only, for at the east end, where the porch was, there were none: against the walls of the house round about, ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 6:6

And the nethermost chamber was five cubits broad ,.... The nethermost row of them, which were upon the first floor: and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad ; so that the middlemost was a cubit larger than the lowest, and the highest a cubit larger than that: the reason of which was, for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about ; or rebatements; the thickness of the wall, as it was raised, became narrower at the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 6:7

And the house, when it was in building ,.... And all the while it was building: was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither ; being hewn or squared by the builders and stonesquarers of Solomon and Hiram, 1 Kings 5:18 ; wherefore the builders had nothing more to do than to lay them in their proper places in the building; it was built with these stones quite up to the ceiling, as Josephus says F20 Antiqu. l. 8. c. 3. sect. 2. ; and these so admirably polished, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 6:8

The door of the middle chamber was in the right side of the house ,.... The south side of it: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber ; which were outside the chambers, and which winded about for the sake of taking up less room, and which led up to the door of the middle chamber, on the south of which they went into it; according to the Vulgate Latin and Tigurine versions, they went up in the forth of a cockle, or the shell of a snail; in like manner as was the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 6:9

So he built the house, and finished it ,.... The body of it, the walls of the holy and most holy place, with the chambers on the sides of them, and the porch at the end that led into them: and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar ; with hollow boards, as the Targum, which formed an arch ceiling to it, and made it look very grand and beautiful; and then over them were laid beams and planks of cedar, not properly as a flat roof to it, but rather as a flooring for other... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 6:10

And then he built chambers against all the house five cubits high ,.... Which some understand of the same chambers in 1 Kings 6:5 ; here made mention of again for the sake of giving the height of them, not before given; but they were built against, or upon the wall of the house, these against, or rather upon the whole house itself; and are the chambers referred to; see Gill on 1 Kings 6:2 ; which consisting of three stories of ninety cubits, raised the whole house to an equal height... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 6:4

Windows of narrow lights - The Vulgate says, fenestras obliquas , oblique windows; but what sort of windows could such be? The Hebrew is אטמים שקפים חלוני challoney shekuphim atumim , windows to look through, which shut. Probably latticed windows: windows through which a person within could see well; but a person without, nothing. Windows, says the Targum, which were open within and shut without. Does he mean windows with shutters; or, are we to understand, with the Arabic,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 6:7

The house - was built of stone - It appears that every stone was hewn and squared, and its place in the building ascertained, before it came to Jerusalem: the timbers were fitted in like manner. This greatly lessened the trouble and expense of carriage. On this account, that all was prepared at Mount Lebanon, there was neither hammer, axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the building; nothing except mallets to drive the tenons into the mortises, and drive in the pins to fasten them,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 6:1-10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 6:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 6:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 6:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 6:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 6:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 6:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 6:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 6:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 6:7

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