1 Kings 6:1-38 WEB

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:1

This chronological difficulty is too vast and comprehensive to be fully discussed here, or to be determined by unlearned readers; and for the learned, I refer them to what is largely digested in my Latin Synopsis upon this place. It may suffice at present to suggest these particulars: 1. That Israel’s coming out of Egypt is variously understood in Scripture, and with some latitude, so as not only to note the time when first they came out of Egypt, but the time of their being in or coming out of... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:2

The house; properly so called, as distinct from all the walls and buildings which were adjoining to it, to wit, the holy and most holy place. The length thereof; from east and to west. And this and the other measures may seem to belong to the inside from wall to wall. Threescore cubits; cubits of the sanctuary; of which See Poole "Genesis 6:15". The height thereof, to wit, of the house; for the porch was 120 cubits high, 2 Chronicles 3:4. So that all the measures compared each with other were... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:3

Before the temple of the house; in the front of or entrance into the house, 2 Chronicles 3:4; being a peristilium or portico, a walk or gallery, at one end of the building (from side to side). And the measures of this were harmonious also. For 20 to 10 (the length of the portico to the breadth of it) is double, or as 2 to 1. And if the height within be the same with that of the house, that is, 30; it will be to the length of it as 3 to 2, and to its breadth as 3 to 1. Or if we take in the whole... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:4

Narrow outward, to prevent the inconveniences of the weather; widening by degrees inward, that so the house might better receive and more disperse the light. Or, for prospect, i.e. to give light; yet shut, i.e. so far closed as to keep out weather, and let in light. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:5

Against the wall; or, upon it; or, joining to it; for the beams of the chambers were not fastened into the wall, but leaned upon the buttresses of the wall. He built chambers, for the laying the priests’ garments and other utensils belonging to the temple, or to the worship of God, therein: see 2 Kings 11:2; 1 Chronicles 28:12; Ezekiel 42:13,Ezekiel 42:14. Round about; not simply, for there were none on the, east side; and it may seem that there were some spaces left for the windows, which... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:6

Five cubits broad, to wit, on the inside, and besides the galleries mentioned above. Narrowed rests, or, narrowings; as in our buildings the walls of a house are thicker or broader at the bottom, and narrower towards the top; only these narrowings were in the outside of the wall, which at each of the three stories was a cubit narrower than that beneath it. And this is mentioned as the reason of the differing breadth of the chambers, because the wall being narrower, allowed more space for the... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:7

Made ready; hewed, and squared, and fitted exactly according to the direction of the architect. No tool heard in the house, while it was in building: so it was ordered, partly, for the case and conveniency of carriage; partly, for the magnificence of the work, and commendation of the workmen’s skill and diligence; and partly, for mystical signification. And as this temple was a manifest type, both of Christ’s church upon earth, and of the heavenly Jerusalem; so this circumstance signified as to... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:8

The door for the middle chamber, i.e. by which they entered to go up to the middle chamber or chambers, to wit, such as were in the middle story. In the right side, i.e. in the south side, called the right side here, and in the Hebrew text, Psalms 89:12, and in other authors; because when a man looks towards the east, or sun-rising, which is esteemed the most glorious part of the heavens, and to which men most frequently look for divers reasons, the south is on his right hand; whereby it is... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:9

He built the house, and finished it, to wit, the bulk and the body of the house. Covered the house, or, the house i.e. the top of the house, for the like is said of the sides and bottom, 1 Kings 6:15, even the beams and boards, ( or, the vault-beams and the ceilings; the arched beams and boards wherewith the top of the house was covered, which was made of other wood, which was more pliable than cedar, and would better endure bowing and bending,) with cedars. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:10

Against all the house; which interpreters understand of those chambers described 1 Kings 6:5,1 Kings 6:6. But why should that be repeated again, and that so darkly and confusedly, after he had particularly and exactly treated of them (unless to give an account of the height of each chamber, or story, which before was not done)? And the Hebrew words may be truly and properly rendered thus, He built a roof (to wit, a flat and plain roof, called yatziah, because of the exact resemblance it hath... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:1

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:3

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:4

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:5

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:6

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:7

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:8

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:9

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 6:10

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