Verse 11
11. The pattern Jehovah had somehow revealed to David the pattern of the temple, as he revealed to Moses that of the tabernacle. Exodus 26:30.
The porch See on 1 Kings 6:3.
The houses thereof The two main rooms, the holy place and the holy of holies, called in 1Ki 6:17 ; 1 Kings 6:27, respectively “the house” and “the inner house.”
The treasuries These were probably located in some of the side chambers.
The upper chambers These are mentioned again in 2 Chronicles 3:9, and are probably to be understood of the upper tier or story of the side chambers, mentioned in 1 Kings 6:5. Bertheau thinks they were over the most holy place, which, being twenty cubits every way, left a vacant space above of twenty cubits square and ten cubits high. But the place above the oracle would have been most likely left in darkness, and the plan of the temple as given in 1 Kings 6:0, shows no way of access to it.
The inner parlours thereof These were probably the more private apartments of the middle and lower stories of the side chambers.
The place of the mercy seat Hebrew, house of the capporeth; that is, the oracle, or holy of holies. See on 1 Kings 6:20.
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