But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.
And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
doors and posts were square, with the windows. or, spaces and pillars were square in prospect
And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
before them. or, according to them.
before them. or, according to them.
Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.
All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
the foundation
Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation …
Isaiah 54:11 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, …
1 Corinthians 3:10,11 According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master …
Revelation 21:19,20 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all …
stones of ten cubits Reckoning the cubit at
1 Kings 7:28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and …
And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.
And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
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
2 Chronicles 2:14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a …
his father
2 Chronicles 4:16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the meat hooks, and all their instruments…
he was filled
Exodus 31:2-6 See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, …
Exodus 35:30-35 And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, the LORD has called …
Exodus 36:1,2,8 Then worked Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man…
Isaiah 28:26 For his God does instruct him to discretion, and does teach him.
For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
cast [heb] fashioned
two pillars
1 Kings 7:21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set …
2 Kings 25:16,17 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for …
2 Chronicles 3:15-17 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high…
2 Chronicles 4:12 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the capitals which …
Jeremiah 52:21-13 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen …
eighteen 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 not 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 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.
2 Kings 25:13,17 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and …
And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:
And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.
And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
And he set
2 Chronicles 3:17 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right …
Galatians 2:9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived …
Revelation 3:12 Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, …
the porch
1 Kings 7:12 And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, …
1 Kings 6:3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the …
Ezekiel 40:48,49 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post …
Jachin
2 Samuel 7:12 And when your days be fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, …
Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, …
Boaz
Ruth 4:21 And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,
Isaiah 45:24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: …
Matthew 16:18 And I say also to you, That you are Peter, and on this rock I will …
And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
2 Chronicles 4:4,5 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three …
Jeremiah 52:20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen bulls that were under …
Ezekiel 1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, …
Matthew 28:19 Go you therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name …
Mark 16:15,16 And he said to them, Go you into all the world, and preach the gospel …
Luke 24:47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his …
1 Corinthians 9:9 For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the mouth …
Revelation 4:6,7 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like to crystal: and …
And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
an hand breadth
Jeremiah 52:21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen …
with flowers
1 Kings 7:19 And the capitals that were on the top of the pillars were of lily …
1 Kings 6:18,32,35 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open …
it contained This immense laver, called a {sea} from it magnitude, held, at a moderate computation,
2 Chronicles 4:6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five …
2 Chronicles 4:3 And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round …
two thousand
1 Kings 7:38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: …
2 Chronicles 4:5 And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like …
Ezekiel 45:14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, you shall offer …
And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:
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.
And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
lions
1 Kings 7:25 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three …
1 Kings 6:27 And he set the cherubim within the inner house: and they stretched …
Ezekiel 1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, …
Ezekiel 10:14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, …
Ezekiel 41:18,19 And it was made with cherubim and palm trees, so that a palm tree …
Hosea 5:14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house …
Revelation 4:6,7 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like to crystal: and …
Revelation 5:5 And one of the elders said to me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the …
cherubims
Genesis 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden …
Exodus 25:18 And you shall make two cherubim of gold, of beaten work shall you …
Exodus 37:7 And he made two cherubim of gold, beaten out of one piece made he …
Hebrews 9:5 And over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy seat; of which …
certain additions
1 Peter 2:5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy …
And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
joined to the base [heb] in the base
And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.
For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
ten lavers
Exodus 30:17-21,28 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying…
Exodus 38:8 And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the …
Exodus 40:11,12 And you shall anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it…
2 Chronicles 4:6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five …
Zechariah 13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David …
Hebrews 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal …
Hebrews 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having …
John 1:7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all …
Revelation 7:14 And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they …
And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.
And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
Hiram [heb] Hirom
1 Kings 7:13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
the lavers
1 Kings 7:28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and …
2 Kings 25:14,15 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, …
2 Chronicles 4:8,11-16 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the …
Jeremiah 52:18,19 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, …
the shovels
1 Kings 7:45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: and all these vessels, …
the basons
Exodus 24:6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half …
So Hiram
Exodus 39:32-43 Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation …
The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;
And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;
the pillars [heb] the face of the pillars
And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.
the pots
Exodus 27:3 And you shall make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, …
Exodus 38:3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, …
Leviticus 8:31 And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door …
1 Samuel 2:13,14 And the priest's custom with the people was, that, when any man offered …
2 Chronicles 4:16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the meat hooks, and all their instruments…
Ezekiel 46:20-24 Then said he to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil …
Zechariah 14:21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness to the …
bright brass [heb] brass made bright, or scoured
In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
the clay ground [heb] the thickness of the ground
Succoth
Genesis 33:17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made …
Zarthan Zarthan is supposed to have been situated in the tribe of Manasseh, west of Jordan, near Jezreel and Bethshan of 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 Hiran 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.
1 Kings 4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and …
Zartanah
Joshua 2:16 And she said to them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers …
Zaretan
2 Chronicles 4:17 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground …
Zeredathah
And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,
the altar
Exodus 30:1-5 And you shall make an altar to burn incense on: of shittim wood shall …
Exodus 37:25-28 And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was …
Exodus 39:38 And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, …
Exodus 40:26 And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the veil:
2 Chronicles 4:19 And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, …
the table
Exodus 25:23-30 You shall also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be …
Exodus 37:10-16 And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length …
Exodus 39:36 The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the show bread,
Exodus 40:22,23 And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, on the side …
Leviticus 24:5-9 And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two …
2 Chronicles 4:8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the …
Ezekiel 40:39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two …
Ezekiel 40:42 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of …
Ezekiel 41:22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two …
Ezekiel 44:16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my …
Malachi 1:12 But you have profaned it, in that you say, The table of the LORD …
1 Corinthians 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: you …
And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
the candlesticks
Exodus 25:31 And you shall make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall …
Exodus 37:17 And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he …
Exodus 39:37 The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps …
Exodus 40:24,25 And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over …
2 Chronicles 4:7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and …
Zechariah 4:1-3,11-14 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a …
Matthew 5:14-16 You are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid…
Revelation 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and …
Revelation 2:1 To the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things said he …
before the oracle
2 Chronicles 4:20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn …
the tongs
Exodus 25:38 And the tongs thereof, and the firepans thereof, shall be of pure gold.
Numbers 4:9 And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of …
And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.
was ended
Exodus 40:33 And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, …
Ezra 6:15 And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which …
Zechariah 4:9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his …
Solomon 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] holy things of David.
2 Samuel 8:7-11 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, …
1 Chronicles 18:7,8,10,11 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, …
1 Chronicles 26:26-28 Which Shelomith and his brothers were over all the treasures of the …
1 Chronicles 28:11-18 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and …
1 Chronicles 29:2-8 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the …
2 Chronicles 5:1 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished…
