1 Kings 6:1 - Scofield Reference Notes

Bible Comments

the house of the Lord

The typology of the temple, if indeed it has any typical significance, is most obscure and difficult. The New Testament invariably expounds the typology of the tabernacle, not of the temple. The symbolism of the latter may be revealed in the kingdom-age (see "Kingdom" Old Testament,

( See Scofield) - (Genesis 1:26).

( See Scofield) - (Zechariah 12:8)

New Testament, (Luke 1:32); (1 Corinthians 15:28). In the New Testament the usual Gk. word for sanctuary (naos) is used

(1) of the temple in Jerusalem (Matthew 23:16).

(2) of the believer's body (1 Corinthians 3:16); (1 Corinthians 3:17); (1 Corinthians 6:19).

(3) of the local church (2 Corinthians 6:16) and

(4) of the true church (Ephesians 2:21) But in all these instances the thought is simply of a habitation of God. No reference to the structure of the temple, as in the case of the tabernacle (Hebrews 9:1-10); (Hebrews 9:39).

Zif

Second month, that is, May.

1 Kings 6:1

1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.