1And Solomon took thirteen years to build his own house; and he finished all his house. 2He also built the house of the Forest of Lebanon; its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, with four rows of cedar pillars, and cedar beams on the pillars. 3And it was paneled with cedar above the beams that were on forty-five pillars, fifteen to a row. 4There were windows with beveled frames in three rows, and window was opposite window in three tiers. 4And he made a porch for the throne, the Porch of Judgment, where he judged; and it was paneled with cedar from floor to floor. 5And all the doorways and doorposts were squared; and window was opposite window in three tiers. 6He also made the porch of pillars: its length was fifty cubits, and its width thirty cubits; and in front of them was a porch with pillars, and a threshold in front of them. 8And the house where he dwelt had another court inside the porch, of similar workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this porch for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken as wife. 9All these were of costly stones cut to size, sawn with saws, inside and out, from the foundation to the coping, and also on the outside to the great court. 10The foundation was of costly stones, large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. 11And above were costly stones, hewn to size, and cedar. 12The great court was of three rows of hewn stones and a row of cedar beams. So were the inner court of the house of Jehovah and the porch of the house. 13Now King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. 14He was the son of a widow woman from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, engraving in bronze; he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill to work in all workmanship in bronze. So he came to King Solomon and did all his work. 15And he cast two pillars of bronze, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a line of twelve cubits circled all the way around. 16And he made two capitals of cast bronze, to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits. 17He made a lattice network, with braids of chainwork, for the capitals on top of the pillars: seven for one capital and seven for the other capital. 18And he made the pillars, and two rows of pomegranates above the network all around to cover the capitals on top; and thus he did for the other capital. 19The capitals which were on top of the pillars in the hall were made like lilies, four cubits. 20The capitals on the two pillars also had pomegranates above, by the belly which was next to the network; and there were two hundred such pomegranates in rows on the other capital all around. 21And he set up the pillars by the porch of the temple; he set up the pillar on the right and called its name Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the left and called its name Boaz. 22The tops of the pillars were made like lilies. Thus the work of the pillars was finished. 23And he made the cast sea of ten cubits from brim to brim; it was round all around. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits made a circuit all the way around. 24Below its brim round about were gourds all around, ten to a cubit, all the way around the sea. The gourds were cast in two rows when it was cast. 25It stood on twelve oxen: three turned toward the north, three turned toward the west, three turned toward the south, and three turned toward the east; the sea was set on top of them, and all their back parts were inward. 26Its thickness was a handbreadth; and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom; and it could hold two thousand baths. 27And he made ten carts of bronze; four cubits the length of the one cart, and four cubits the breadth, and three cubits the height. 28And this was the work of the cart: they had borders, and there were borders between the stays. 29And on the borders that were between the stays were lions, oxen, and cherubim. And a pedestal was on the stays above. And below the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. 30And each cart had four wheels of bronze, and axles of bronze. And its four feet were supports to them; under the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side. 31And its opening within and above the capital was a cubit; and its opening was round like the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half. And also on its opening were carvings; and their borders were square, not round. 32And the four wheels were under the borders. And the axles of the wheels were attached to the cart; and the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half. 33The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel; their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast. 34And there were four supports at the four corners of each cart; its supports were part of the cart itself. 35On the top of the cart was a round compass a half cubit in height. And on the top of the cart, its stays and its supports were of the same casting. 36On the plates of its stays and on its borders he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, wherever there was a clear space on each, with wreaths all around. 37Thus he made the ten carts. All of them were of the same cast, one measure, and one shape. 38And he made ten basins of bronze; each basin could hold forty baths, and each basin was four cubits. On each of the ten carts was a basin. 39And he put five carts on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house. He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward toward the south. 40Hiram made the basins, the shovels and the bowls. Thus Hiram finished doing all the work that he did for King Solomon for the house of Jehovah: 41the two pillars, the two bowls of the capitals that were on top of the two pillars; the two networks covering the two bowls of the capitals which were on top of the pillars; 42four hundred pomegranates for the two networks (two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on top of the pillars); 43the ten carts, and ten basins on the carts; 44the one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea; 45the pots, the shovels, and the bowls. All these articles which Hiram made for King Solomon for the house of Jehovah were of burnished bronze. 46In the plain of Jordan the king had them cast in the clay ground between Succoth and Zaretan. 47And Solomon did not weigh all the articles, because there were so very many; the weight of the bronze was not determined. 48Thus Solomon had all the articles made for the house of Jehovah: the altar of gold, and the table of gold on which was the Bread of the Presence; 49the lampstands of pure gold, five on the right side and five on the left in front of the inner sanctuary, with the flowers and the lamps and the tongs of gold; 50the basins, the snuffers, the bowls, the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house (the Holy of Holies) and for the doors of the house of the temple. 51Thus all the work that King Solomon had done for the house of Jehovah was finished; and Solomon brought in the things which his father David had consecrated: the silver and the gold and the articles, and He put them in the treasuries of the house of Jehovah.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 1 1Kgs 7:1 The building of Solomon's house.
1Kgs 7:2 Of the house of Lebanon.
1Kgs 7:6 Of the porch of pillars.
1Kgs 7:7 Of the porch of judgment.
1Kgs 7:8 Of the house for Pharaoh's daughter.
1Kgs 7:13 Hiram's work of the two pillars.
1Kgs 7:23 Of the molten sea.
1Kgs 7:27 Of the ten bases.
1Kgs 7:38 Of the ten lavers,
1Kgs 7:40 and all the vessels.
thirteen years.
1Kgs 9:10 2Chr 8:1 Eccl 2:4 Eccl 2:5 Matt 6:33 2 1Kgs 9:19 1Kgs 10:17 2Chr 9:16 Song 7:4 3 beams. Heb. ribs.
1Kgs 6:5*marg:
1Kgs 7:3 4 windows.
1Kgs 7:5 1Kgs 6:4 Isa 54:12 Ezek 40:16 Ezek 40:22 Ezek 40:25 Ezek 40:29 Ezek 40:33 Ezek 40:36 Ezek 41:26light was against light. Heb. sight against sight.
5 doors and posts were square, with the windows. or, spacesand pillars were square in prospect.
1Kgs 7:5 6 before them. or, according to them. before them. or,according to them.
1Kgs 7:6 7 a porch.
1Kgs 6:3for the throne.
1Kgs 10:18 -
1Kgs 10:20 Ps 122:5 Isa 9:7of judgment.
1Kgs 3:9 1Kgs 3:28 Pro 20:8from one side of the floor to the other. Heb. from floor tofloor.
8 another court.
2Kgs 20:4an house.
1Kgs 3:1 1Kgs 9:24 2Chr 8:11 9 costly stones.
1Kgs 7:10 1Kgs 7:11 1Kgs 5:17 10 the foundation.
Isa 28:16 Isa 54:11 1Cor 3:10 1Cor 3:11 Rev 21:19 Rev 21:20stones of ten cubits. Reckoning the cubit at 21 inches, the ten cubits are 17 feet and a half, and the eight cubits are 14 feet. The magnitude of these stones was certainly extraordinary; but let us hear M. Volney, and our surprise will no longer be fixed on these stones, but transferred from Solomon's house to the ruins of Balbec: "What is still more astonishing is the enormous stones which compose the sloping wall. To the west, the second layer is formed of stones which are from 28 to 35 feet long, by about 9 in height. Over this layer, at the north-west angle, there are three stones, which alone occupy a space of 175 feet and a half; viz. the first, 58 feet 7 inches; the second, 58 feet 11 inches; and the third, exactly 58 feet; and each of these is 12 feet thick. These stones are of white granite, with large shining flakes, like gypsum: there is a quarry of this kind of stone under the whole city, and another in the adjacent mountains, which is open in several places. On the right, as we approach the city, there is still lying there a stone hewn on three sides, which is 69 feet 2 inches long, 12 feet 10 inches broad, and 13 feet 3 inches in thickness.
11 Eph 2:20 -
Eph 2:22 1Pet 2:5 12 three rows.
1Kgs 6:36the porch.
John 10:23 Acts 3:11 Acts 5:12 13 Hiram.
1Kgs 7:40 2Chr 2:13 2Chr 4:11Huram.
14 a widow's son. Heb. the son of a widow woman. tribe. The mother of Hiram (not the Tyrian king mentioned before, but an intelligent coppersmith, of Jewish extraction by his mother's side) in Chronicles, is said to have been of "the daughters of Dan;" and she might have been of Naphtali by her father, and of Dan by her mother; or she might originally be of the tribe of Dan, and have been first married to a man of the tribe of Naphtali; and, in either case, she might be indifferently called "of the tribe of Naphtali," or of "the daughters of Dan."
Naphtali.
2Chr 2:14his father.
2Chr 4:16he was filled.
Exod 31:2 -
Exod 31:6 Exod 35:30 -
Exod 35:35 Exod 36:1 Exod 36:2 Exod 36:8 Isa 28:26 15 cast. Heb. fashioned. two pillars.
1Kgs 7:21 2Kgs 25:16 2Kgs 25:17 2Chr 3:15 -
2Chr 3:17 2Chr 4:12 -
2Chr 4:22 Jer 52:21 -
Jer 52:23eighteen cubits. That is, nearly thirty feet, English measure. But in the parallel place in Chronicles, these pillars are said to thirty-five cubits high. Tremellius reconciles this difference by observing, that the common cubit was but one-half of the cubit of the sanctuary; so that eighteen of the one would make thirty-six of the other; from which, if we deduct one cubit for the base, there will remain thirty-five. Notwithstanding the names of these pillars, they seem to have supported no part of the building, and appear to have been formed for ornament; and were no doubt also emblematical. The right pillar was called
Jachin, which signifies, "He will establish;" while that on the left was named
Boaz, "In it is strength." Some think they were intended for memorials of the pillars and cloud of fire, which led Israel through the wilderness; but Henry supposes them designed for memorandums to the priests and others that came to worship at God's door. 1st. To depend upon God only, and not upon any sufficiency of their own, for strength and establishment in all their religious exercises. 2nd. It was a memorandum to them of the strength and establishment of the temple of God among them. When the temple was destroyed, particular notice is taken of the breaking up and carrying away of these brazen pillars,
2Kgs 25:13,
2Kgs 25:17, which had been the tokens of its establishment, and would have been still so, if they had not forsaken God.
16 Exod 36:38 Exod 38:17 Exod 38:19 Exod 38:28 2Chr 4:12 2Chr 4:13 17 Exod 28:14 Exod 28:22 Exod 28:24 Exod 28:25 Exod 39:15 -
Exod 39:18 2Kgs 25:17 19 lily work.
1Kgs 7:22 1Kgs 6:18 1Kgs 6:32 -
1Kgs 6:35 20 and the pomegranates.
2Kgs 25:17 2Chr 3:16 2Chr 4:13 Jer 52:22 Jer 52:23 21 And he set.
2Chr 3:17 Gal 2:9 Rev 3:12the porch.
1Kgs 7:12 1Kgs 6:3 Ezek 40:48 Ezek 40:49Jachin.
2Sam 7:12 Isa 9:7Boaz.
Ruth 4:21 Isa 45:24 Matt 16:18 22 1Kgs 7:22 23 he made.
Exod 30:18 -
Exod 30:21 Exod 38:8a molten sea.
2Kgs 25:13 2Chr 4:2 Jer 52:17 Jer 52:20the one brim to the other. Heb. his brim to his brim.
24 knops.
1Kgs 6:18 Exod 25:31 -
Exod 25:36 Exod 37:17 -
Exod 37:22compassing the sea.
2Chr 4:3 25 2Chr 4:4 2Chr 4:5 Jer 52:20 Ezek 1:10 Matt 28:19 Mark 16:15 Mark 16:16 Luke 24:47 1Cor 9:9 Rev 4:6 Rev 4:7 26 an hand breadth.
Jer 52:21with flowers.
1Kgs 7:19 1Kgs 6:18 1Kgs 6:32 1Kgs 6:35it contained. This immense laver, called a sea from it magnitude, held, at a moderate computation, 16,000 gallons. Besides this great brazen laver, there were in the temple ten lavers of brass of a less size, which moved on wheels, and were ornamented with the figures of various animals, having, probably, always some relation to the cherubim. These lavers were to hold water for the use of the priests in their sacred office, particularly to wash the victims that were to be offered as a burnt offering, as we learn from
2Chr 4:6; but the brazen sea was for the priests to wash in. The knops are supposed to have been in the form of an ox's head, (
2Chr 4:3;) and some think the water flowed out at their mouths.
two thousand.
1Kgs 7:38 2Chr 4:5 Ezek 45:14 27 ten bases. These highly ornamental bases appear to have been square stands, or immense pedestals, for the purpose of supporting the lavers.
2Kgs 25:13 2Kgs 25:16 2Chr 4:14 Jer 52:17 Jer 52:20 28 bases was on. It seems evident that these bases or pedestals rose with steps, and that the ornaments mentioned in the next verse appeared in front, forming so many entablatures. But the description of these bases is very difficult to comprehend: many of the original words are seldom, if at all, used elsewhere; and it would be impossible to give an explanation of each particular, without a labour and prolixity disproportioned to its importance to us.
1Kgs 7:28 29 lions.
1Kgs 7:25 1Kgs 6:27 Ezek 1:10 Ezek 10:14 Ezek 41:18 Ezek 41:19 Hos 5:14 Rev 4:6 Rev 4:7 Rev 5:5cherubims.
Gen 3:24 Exod 25:18 Exod 37:7 Heb 9:5certain additions.
1Pet 2:5 30 wheels.
Ezek 1:15 -
Ezek 1:21 Ezek 3:13 Ezek 10:10 -
Ezek 10:13had undersetters. It is probable that these undersetters were so many strong legs, somewhat shorter than the wheels, and were intended to prevent the laver from tilting, or falling, in case of any accident.
31 1Kgs 7:31 32 joined to the base. Heb. in the base.
1Kgs 7:32 33 Ezek 1:16 Ezek 1:18 34 1Kgs 7:34 35 1Kgs 7:35 36 graved cherubims.
1Kgs 7:29 1Kgs 6:29 1Kgs 6:32 1Kgs 6:35 Ezek 40:31 Ezek 40:37 Ezek 41:18 -
Ezek 41:20 Ezek 41:25 Ezek 41:26proportion. Heb. nakedness.
37 1Kgs 7:37 38 ten lavers.
Exod 30:17 -
Exod 30:21 Exod 30:28 Exod 38:8 Exod 40:11 Exod 40:12 2Chr 4:6 -
2Chr 4:22 Zech 13:1 Heb 9:10 Heb 10:22 1John 1:7 Rev 7:14 39 side. Heb. shoulder. he set.
2Chr 4:6 2Chr 4:10 40 Hiram. Heb. Hirom.
1Kgs 7:13the lavers.
1Kgs 7:28 2Kgs 25:14 2Kgs 25:15 2Chr 4:8 2Chr 4:11 -
2Chr 4:16 Jer 52:18 Jer 52:19the shovels.
1Kgs 7:45the basons.
Exod 24:6So Hiram.
Exod 39:32 -
Exod 39:43 41 two pillars.
1Kgs 7:15 -
1Kgs 7:22 2Chr 4:12two networks.
1Kgs 7:17 1Kgs 7:18 42 the pillars. Heb. the face of the pillars.
1Kgs 7:42 43 ten bases.
1Kgs 7:27 -
1Kgs 7:39 44 one sea.
1Kgs 7:23 -
1Kgs 7:26 45 the pots.
Exod 27:3 Exod 38:3 Lev 8:31 1Sam 2:13 1Sam 2:14 2Chr 4:16 Ezek 46:20 -
Ezek 46:24 Zech 14:21bright brass. Heb. brass made bright, or scoured.
46 the clay ground. Heb. the thickness of the ground. Succoth.
Gen 33:17Zarthan. Zarthan is supposed to have been situated in the tribe of Manasseh, west of Jordan, near Jezreel and Bethshan or Scythopolis, and not far from the Jordan. Succoth we know was situated east of Jordan, in the tribe of Gad, and according to Jerome, in the district of Scythopolis: hence the "plain of Jordan," where Hiram cast the brazen vessels, must be the plain in which that river runs, Zarthan and Succoth being probably nearly opposite each other; but whether the precise spot of his operations was on this side or the other side, is uncertain. In this place he found that particular clay that was proper for his purpose; and it being a considerable distance from Jerusalem, that city would not be annoyed by the smoke and noxious vapours necessarily occasioned by the process.
1Kgs 4:12Zartanah.
Josh 3:16Zaretan.
2Chr 4:17Zeredathah.
47 because they were exceeding many. Heb. for the exceedingmultitude.
2Chr 4:18found out. Heb. searched.
1Chr 22:14 1Chr 22:16 48 the altar.
Exod 30:1 -
Exod 30:5 Exod 37:25 -
Exod 37:28 Exod 39:38 Exod 40:26 2Chr 4:19the table.
Exod 25:23 -
Exod 25:30 Exod 37:10 -
Exod 37:16 Exod 39:36 Exod 40:22 Exod 40:23 Lev 24:5 -
Lev 24:9 2Chr 4:8 Ezek 40:39 Ezek 40:42 Ezek 41:22 Ezek 44:16 Mal 1:12 1Cor 10:21 49 the candlesticks.
Exod 25:31 -
Exod 25:40 Exod 37:17 -
Exod 37:24 Exod 39:37 Exod 40:24 Exod 40:25 2Chr 4:7 Zech 4:1 -
Zech 4:3 Zech 4:11 -
Zech 4:14 Matt 5:14 -
Matt 5:16 Rev 1:20 Rev 2:1before the oracle.
2Chr 4:20the tongs.
Exod 25:38 Num 4:9 50 spoons.
Exod 25:29 Num 7:86censers. Heb. ash pans.
Lev 16:12 2Chr 4:21 2Chr 4:22 51 was ended.
Exod 40:33 Ezra 6:15 Zech 4:9Solomon brought. It appears, therefore, that Solomon did not use any of the gold and silver in the structure of the temple which his father had provided.
things which David his father had dedicated. Heb. holythings of David.
2Sam 8:7 -
2Sam 8:11 1Chr 18:7 1Chr 18:8 1Chr 18:10 1Chr 18:11 1Chr 26:26 -
1Chr 26:28 1Chr 28:11 -
1Chr 28:18 1Chr 29:2 -
1Chr 29:8 2Chr 5:1