1 Kings 6:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar. ”

1 Kings 6:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Description of Solomon's Temple. The Temple area is on the eastern hill of Jerusalem, which overlooks the valley of the Kidron, with the Mount of Olives on the opposite side. It was probably not th...
1 Kings 6:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
1 Kings 6:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar. Chambers ... five cubits high. That was the height of the whole three st...
1 Kings 6:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Construction of the Temple In shape the Temple was a rectangular hall 60 x 20 x 30 cubits (a cubit being about 18 inches). On its E. face it had a porch (forming an entrance) which extended ac...
1 Kings 6:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(5-10) The general meaning of these verses is clear, though some of the words are doubtful. Round three sides of the Temple was built a kind of aisle, opening, however, outwards and not into the Temp...
1 Kings 6:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Kings 6:1-38 ; 1 Kings 7:1-51 THE TEMPLE 1 Kings 5:1-18 ; 1 Kings 6:1-38 ; 1 Kings 7:1-51 "And his next son, for wealth and wisdom famed, The clouded Ark of God, till then in tents Wan...
1 Kings 6:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Plan of the Lord's House 1 Kings 6:1-13 The Temple was twice the size of the Tabernacle-ninety feet long by thirty feet broad, and forty-five feet high. The plan had been given to David by...
1 Kings 6:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This chapter is full of interest, as it gives a somewhat detailed description of the structure of the Temple. In all essentials its actual central building was on the pattern of the Tabernacle. It wa...
1 Kings 6:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(3) 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. (4) And for the...
1 Kings 6:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And [then] he built chambers against all the house five cubits high ,.... Which some understand of the same chambers in 1 Kings 6:5 ; here made mention of again for the sake of giving the height of...
1 Kings 6:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And [then] he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house [with] timber of cedar. Ver. 10. And he built chambers. ] The tabernacle had none such. See on 1...
1 Kings 6:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

So he built the house, and finished it That is, the walls of the house. And then he built chambers There is nothing in the Hebrew for the word then , which being omitted, the sense is, that he h...
1 Kings 6:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE (vs.1-38) The date of the beginning of the temple is given specifically in verse 1 as the 480th year after Israel had left Egypt, which was the 4th year of Solomon's r...
1 Kings 6:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Building of the Temple. B. C. 1011. 1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and ei...
1 Kings 6:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Against all the house; which interpreters understand of those chambers described 1 Kings 6:5,6 . But why should that be repeated again, and that so darkly and confusedly, after he had particular...
1 Kings 6:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE BUILDING OF SOLOMON’S TEMPLE CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 6:1 . Began to build the house of the Lord —The chronological year is carefully noted, and no criticism supplies reason...
1 Kings 6:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Kings 6:1 . In the four hundred and eightieth year. The Hebrew, the Chaldaic, and most of the Greek versions read as the English; yet some difficulties occur. Vide Poli in locum. The following...
1 Kings 6:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

He began to build the house of the Lord. The temple built Solomon’s temple is the most wonderful and interesting building in the world’s history. It was “the mysterious centre of Israel.” It wa...
1 Kings 6:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION SOLOMON 'S TEMPLE .—The preparations for the building of the Temple having been related in the preceding chapter, the historian now proceeds to describe the edifice. He begins his n...
1 Kings 6:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Building Itself
1 Kings 6:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 6:10
1 Kings 6:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Built chambers — The Hebrew words may be properly rendered, He built a roof, a flat and plain roof, over all the house, according to the manner of the Israelitish buildings. The inner roof was arch...

1 Kings 6:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Kings 6:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Kings 6:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Kings 6:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Kings 6:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Kings 6:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Kings 6:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Kings 6:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Kings 6:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Kings 6:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Kings 6:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Kings 6:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Kings 6:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Kings 6:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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

1 Kings 6:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Kings 6:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Kings 6:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Kings 6:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Kings 6:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Kings 6:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 6:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes