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 origin. The Divine original of the tabernacle and all its belongings ( Exodus 25:1-40 .-30.; Hebrews 8:5 ) was not to be a neglected precedent as regards the greater temple. It is said that "David gave" these "patterns to Solomon his son" ( 2 Kings 6:11 ), and the form in which he gave them is explained in 2 Kings 6:19 . There we read, "The whole in writing from the hand of Jehovah upon me, he made me to .understand—all the works of this pattern." Whatever we generally accept respecting the writing of the tables of the Law by the finger of God ( Exodus 24:12 ; Exodus 31:18 ; Exodus 32:15 , Exodus 32:16 ; Deuteronomy 4:13 ; Deuteronomy 5:5 , Deuteronomy 5:22 ; Deuteronomy 9:10 ), is at all events open for acceptance here. At the same time, the phraseology of our nineteenth verse is certainly not so uncompromising-as that of the references just instanced from the Books of Exodus and Deuteronomy. The words of verse 19 may be satisfied by the meaning that David was in such manner and degree "in the Spirit" ( Revelation 1:10 ), that in the writing and the drawing of patterns his hand was entirely under the guidance of that Spirit. In either alternative, to hand over such documents and such "patterns" must have been felt by David and all present an act of which much should be made.