Verse 31
31. The entering of the oracle The doorway, or place of entrance. It appears that the oracle had no other opening than this. There was no other door, and there were no windows, for Jehovah would dwell in the thick darkness, (1 Kings 8:12,) and thereby indicate to his human worshippers that his ways and his being are past finding out. He makes darkness his pavilion to teach his worshippers the folly of thinking to find out the Almighty to perfection.
The lintel איל , pilaster. “The projection which always springing, pillar-like, out of adjacent recesses on both sides, fronts toward the space where is the entrance and through passage.” Furst. It would be better, then, to render either the pilaster of the side-posts, or, with Keil, to attach side-posts to pilaster as an explanatory apposition the pilaster, namely, the projecting side-posts.
A fifth part Of the doorway or entrance; not of the wall, as our translators have supplied. The meaning is, that the pilasters on each side of the doorway projected outward in bold relief, and took up one fifth of the passage between the side-posts.
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