He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof [was] an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
Ver. 2. He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon.] For public feasts, games, pastimes, and delights, Ecc 2:4-6 for a magazine also. 1Ki 10:16-17 Isa 22:8 Framed it might be in Lebanon, 1Ki 9:19 but built it was in Jerusalem, Solomon's dwelling house and throne not far from it. 1Ki 7:6-8 It seemeth to have been called "the house of the forest of Lebanon," not because it stood in that forest, as William, bishop of Tyre, and Junius hold: a but partly because it was made of the cedars of Lebanon, in which regard also the temple is called Lebanon, Zec 11:1 and partly because it was a kind of abridgment of that famous forest, and contained in it, and in the gardens and groves about it, all the delights and pleasures of that forest, in solitary walks, sweet smells, music of birds, and sight of wild beasts, &c., whence the Hebrews call it domum refrigerii, the house of refreshing.
a Lib. xviii, belli sacri.