He made a porch; another porch or distinct room without the house. For the throne, described 1 Kings 10:18. Where he might judge the people that brought their causes before him. From one side of the floor to the other, i.e. the whole floor; or, from floor to floor, i.e. from the lower floor on the ground, to the upper floor which covered it. read more
Within the porch, i.e. between the porch and the house, called therefore the middle court, 2 Kings 20:4. A house for Pharaoh’s daughter; of which see 1 Kings 3:1; 2 Chronicles 8:11. Like unto this porch; not for form or quantity, but for the materials and workmanship, the rooms being covered with cedar, and furnished with like ornaments. read more
All these buildings described here and in the former chapter. According to the measures of hewed stones; either first, which were hewed in such measure and proportion, as exact workmen used to hew ordinary stones; or, secondly, as large as common hewed stones, which are oft very great. Within and without; both on the inside of the buildings which were covered with cedar, and on the outside also. From the foundation unto the coping; from the bottom to the top of the building. On the outside... read more
Stones of ten cubits; not square, which would have been both unnecessary, and unportable, and unmanageable; but of solid measure, by which stones and timber are usually measured; and so they were only two cubits square, but there were twenty solid cubits contained in them. And so also the following eight cubits are to be understood. read more
Above, i.e. in the roof or upper part; for this is opposed to the foundation. Costly stones and cedars, intermixed here the one, and there the other. read more
The great court, to wit, of Solomon’s dwelling-house, mentioned 1 Kings 7:8. A row of cedar beams; of which See Poole "1 Kings 6:36". Both for the inner court of the house of the Lord, or, as (Heb. and, which is oft used in that sense for a particle of comparison or similitude, as Proverbs 11:25; Proverbs 17:3; Proverbs 25:23) for the inner court, &c., i.e. as it was in that inner court, of which the very same thing is said 1 Kings 6:36. Otherwise it might seem very improper and impertinent... read more
A widow’s son of the tribe of Naphtali. Object. She was one of the daughters of Dan, 2 Chronicles 2:14. Answ. So indeed Hiram king of Tyre there affirms; but he might easily mistake or be misinformed, especially being no Israelite, nor a careful observer of the distinction of tribes. Or she might be of Dan by her father, and of Naphtali by her mother, or by her husband, who was of that tribe, and therefore she was truly a widow of Naphtali. His father was a man of Tyre; either by his descent,... read more
He cast two pillars of brass; of which see 2 Kings 25:16,2 Kings 25:17; Jeremiah 52:21. Of eighteen cubits high apiece. Object. They are said to be thirty-five cubits high, 2 Chronicles 3:15. Answ. That place manifestly speaks of both the pillars; and this of each, or one pillar, as it is in the Hebrew. Object. But then it should have been thirty-six cubits. Answ. Either the odd half cubit is swallowed up either in the top of the chapiter, or in the bottom of the basis of each pillar; or it is... read more
The height of the one chapiter was five cubits. Object. It is but three cubits in 2 Kings 25:17. Answ. The word chapiter is taken diversely, as hundreds of other words are; either more largely for the whole, so it is five cubits; or more strictly, either for the pommels, as they are called, 2 Chronicles 4:12, or for the cornice or crown; and so it was but three cubits, to which the pomegranates being added make it four cubits, as it is below, 1 Kings 7:19; and the other work upon it took up one... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 7:6
A porch of pillars, i.e. supported by divers pillars, for the more magnificent entrance into the house; upon which also it is thought there were other rooms built, as in the house. The porch, now mentioned, which is said to be before them, i.e. before the pillars on which the house of Lebanon stood, or before the doors and posts mentioned 1 Kings 7:5; or, a porch, i.e. another and a lesser porch, which was before them, i.e. before the pillars of the greater porch now mentioned. And the other... read more