1 Kings 6:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar. ”

1 Kings 6:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He built the house, and finished it - i. e., the external shell of the house. The internal fittings were added afterward. See 1 Kings 6:15-22 . Covered the house - Roofed it with a wooden ro...
1 Kings 6:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

So he built the (f) house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar. (f) In Exodus it is called the tabernacle, and the temple is here called the sanctuary and the oracl...
1 Kings 6:9 - 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 6:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar. Covered the house with beams and boards of cedar - The Eastern custom is very different from ours: we cei...
1 Kings 6:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar. Built the house. The temple is here distinguished from the wings or chambers attached to it, and i...
1 Kings 6:9 - 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 6:9 - 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 6:9 - 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 6:9 - 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 6:9 - 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 6:9 - 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 6:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So he built the house, and finished it ,.... The body of it, the walls of the holy and most holy place, with the chambers on the sides of them, and the porch at the end that led into them: and cov...
1 Kings 6:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar. Ver. 9. So he built the house. ] Epilogus est praecedentium. a And boards of cedar.] Which board...
1 Kings 6:9 - 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 6:9 - 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 6:9 - 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 6:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 Ki...
1 Kings 6:9 - 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 6:9 - 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 6:9 - 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 6:9 - 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 6:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Building Itself
1 Kings 6:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 6:14 ; 1 Kings 6:38

1 Kings 6:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Kings 6:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Kings 6:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Kings 6:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Kings 6:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Kings 6:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Kings 6:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Kings 6:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Kings 6:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Kings 6:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Kings 6:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Kings 6:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Kings 6:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Kings 6:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Kings 6:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Kings 6:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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

1 Kings 6:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Kings 6:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Kings 6:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Kings 6:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Kings 6:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Kings 6:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge