And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
A.M.
Judges 11:26 While Israel dwelled in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her …
2 Chronicles 3:1,2 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in …
in the month Zif
1 Kings 6:37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, …
Numbers 1:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle …
began [heb] built
Acts 7:47 But Solomon built him an house.
build
1 Chronicles 29:19 And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, …
Zechariah 6:12,13,15 And speak to him, saying, Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, …
John 2:19-21 Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three …
1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost …
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are …
Ephesians 2:20-22 And are built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus …
Colossians 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you …
Hebrews 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a …
Hebrews 11:10 For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
1 Peter 2:5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy …
And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.
And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
against. or, upon, or joining to.
built
1 Chronicles 9:26 For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, …
1 Chronicles 23:28 Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service …
1 Chronicles 28:11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and …
2 Chronicles 31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; …
Nehemiah 10:37 And that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our offerings, …
Nehemiah 12:44 And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, …
Nehemiah 13:5-9 And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they …
Songs 1:4 Draw me, we will run after you: the king has brought me into his …
Jeremiah 35:4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of …
Ezekiel 40:44 And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the …
Ezekiel 41:5-11 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth …
Ezekiel 42:3-12 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and …
chambers [heb] floors These appear to have been what we should now call corridors or galleries; in which were apartments for the use of the priests. They consisted of three stories, and increased one cubit in breadth in every story, the wall of the temple being two cubits thicker at the bottom than at the top; and where the wall diminished, a rest was thus formed for the beams of the chambers to lodge upon.
oracle
1 Kings 6:16,19-21,31 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor …
Exodus 25:22 And there I will meet with you, and I will commune with you from …
Leviticus 16:2 And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to Aaron your brother…
Numbers 7:89 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to …
2 Chronicles 4:20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn …
2 Chronicles 5:7,9 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to …
Psalm 28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, when I lift …
chambers [heb] ribs
The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
narrowed rests. or, narrowings, or rebatements
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
built of stone
1 Kings 5:17,18 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, …
Deuteronomy 27:5,6 And there shall you build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar …
Proverbs 24:27 Prepare your work without, and make it fit for yourself in the field; …
Romans 9:23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels …
2 Corinthians 5:5 Now he that has worked us for the selfsame thing is God, who also …
Colossians 1:12 Giving thanks to the Father, which has made us meet to be partakers …
1 Peter 2:5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy …
neither hammer
Isaiah 42:2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
Acts 9:31 Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and …
James 1:20 For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.
James 3:17,18 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, …
The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:
if thou wilt
1 Kings 2:3,4 And keep the charge of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, to …
1 Kings 3:14 And if you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, …
1 Kings 8:25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with your servant David my …
1 Kings 9:3-6 And the LORD said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, …
1 Samuel 12:14,15 If you will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and …
1 Chronicles 28:9 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve …
2 Chronicles 7:17,18 And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father …
Psalm 132:12 If your children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall …
Zechariah 3:7 Thus said the LORD of hosts; If you will walk in my ways, and if …
Colossians 1:23 If you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved …
then will I perform
2 Samuel 7:13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will establish the throne …
1 Chronicles 22:10 He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and …
And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
I will dwell
1 Kings 8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven …
Exodus 25:8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
Leviticus 26:11 And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
Psalm 68:18 You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have …
Psalm 132:12,13 If your children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall …
Isaiah 57:15 For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose …
Ezekiel 37:26-28 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an …
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are …
Revelation 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle …
will not forsake
Deuteronomy 31:6,8 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: …
1 Samuel 12:22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: …
1 Chronicles 28:9,20 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve …
Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with …
So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
he built That is, he lined or wainscotted the walls with cedar, the floor being covered with planks of fir: the marginal reading in this verse is preferable, as it removes every difficulty and obscurity.
both the floor of the house, and the walls. or, from the floor of the house, unto the walls, etc.
And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
built them
1 Kings 6:5,19,20 And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, …
1 Kings 8:6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to …
Exodus 25:21,22 And you shall put the mercy seat above on the ark; and in the ark …
Exodus 26:23 And two boards shall you make for the corners of the tabernacle in …
Leviticus 16:2 And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to Aaron your brother…
2 Chronicles 3:8 And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according …
Ezekiel 45:3 And of this measure shall you measure the length of five and twenty …
Hebrews 9:3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
the oracle The oracle was the sanctuary, or holy of holies, in which there was nothing but the ark of the covenant, including the tables of the law, and into which the high priest alone was to enter but once a year.
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.
So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
overlaid
Exodus 26:29,32 And you shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings …
Exodus 36:34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold …
2 Chronicles 3:7-9 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, …
by the chains
1 Kings 6:5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, …
Exodus 26:32,33 And you shall hang it on four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with …
2 Chronicles 3:14-16 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, …
And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.
the whole house It is impossible to calculate this expense, or the quantity of gold employed in this sacred building; but both must have been immense.
also
1 Kings 6:20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty …
Exodus 30:1,3,5,6 And you shall make an altar to burn incense on: of shittim wood shall …
2 Chronicles 3:7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, …
the whole altar This was the altar of incense without the vail, in the {holy place}, which was twice the length of the {most holy place}.
And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.
two cherubims These were distinct from, and much larger than those which covered the mercy-seat.
Genesis 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden …
Exodus 25:18-22 And you shall make two cherubim of gold, of beaten work shall you …
Exodus 37:7-9 And he made two cherubim of gold, beaten out of one piece made he …
2 Chronicles 3:10-13 And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work, and …
Psalm 18:10 And he rode on a cherub, and did fly: yes, he did fly on the wings of the wind.
Psalm 80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; …
Isaiah 37:16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwell between the cherubim, …
Ezekiel 10:2 And he spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between …
Hebrews 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for …
1 Peter 1:12 To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they did …
olive tree. or, oily trees. [heb] trees of oil
And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and one size.
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
carved figure
Exodus 26:8 The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth …
2 Chronicles 3:14 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, …
2 Chronicles 4:2-5 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round …
Psalm 103:20 Bless the LORD, you his angels, that excel in strength, that do his …
Psalm 148:2 Praise you him, all his angels: praise you him, all his hosts.
Luke 2:13,14 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly …
Ephesians 3:10 To the intent that now to the principalities and powers in heavenly …
Revelation 5:11-14 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the …
palm trees Tamar, in Ethiopic, tamart, the palm tree is so called, says Parkhurst, from its straight, upright growth, for which it seems more remarkable than any other tree; and it is crowned at the top with a large tuft of spiring?? leaves, about four feet long, which never fall off, but always continue in the same flourishing verdure. The stalks are generally full of rugged knots, which are vestiges of decayed leaves: for the trunk of the tree is not solid, but its centre is filled with pith, round which is a tough bark full of strong fibres when young, which, as the tree becomes old, hardens and becomes ligneous. To this bark the leaves are closely joined, which, as the tree becomes old, hardens and becomes ligneous. To this bark the leaves are closely joined, which in the centre rise erect, but after they are advance above the vagina which surrounds them, they expand very wide on every side of the stem, and as the older leaves decay, the stalk advances in height. The leaves, when the tree has grown to a size for bearing fruit, are six or eight feet long, and very broad when expanded. The fruit, called the date, grows below the leaves in clusters.
Psalm 92:12-15 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like …
Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, see, a great multitude, which no man could …
open flowers [heb] openings of flowers
1 Kings 6:18,32 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open …
And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
doors
John 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and …
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man …
Ephesians 3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and …
Hebrews 10:19,20 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holiest by …
a fifth part. or, five square
The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
a fourth part. or, four square
And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
finished
Ezra 6:14,15 And the elders of the Jews built, and they prospered through the …
Zechariah 4:9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his …
Zechariah 6:13-15 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the …
throughout, etc. or, with all the appurtenances thereof, and with all the ordinances thereof.
seven years
1 Kings 6:1,9 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after …
1 Kings 7:1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished …
Ezra 3:8-13 Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, …
Ezra 6:15 And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which …
John 2:20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, …
