1 Kings 6:18
Knops and open flowers - Rather, “gourds and opening flower-buds.” Imitations of the vegetable world are among the earliest of architectural orna...
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 O...
no stone seen. Figure of speech Pleonasm. App-6. Words not necessary for grammar, or sense; but used to emphasize the completeness of our coverin...
And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. No JFB commentary on these...
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 h...
Knops ] i.e. knobs, and so in 1 Kings 7:24 . RM has 'gourds,' implying that the ornaments intended, which were carved in relief, were globular in s...
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 fam...
Breaking Three Commandments 1 Kings 21:1-29 ; 1 Kings 1:1-53 ; 1 Kings 2:1-46 ; 1 Kings 3:1-28 ; 1 Kings 4:1-34 ; 1 Kings 5:1-18 ; 1 Kings...
the Oracle in the Midst 1 Kings 6:14-28 In the Temple the general design of the Tabernacle was perpetuated by the division between the Holy Pla...
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 bu...
(15) В¶ And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered th...
And the cedar of the house within ,.... With which the inside of the place was lined: [was] carved with knops ; of an oval form; so the Targum say...
And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knops and open flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen. Ver. 18. Carved with knops a...
The temple before it The part of the house which was before the most holy place. In the Hebrew the words are, before my face , that is, before the...
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...
15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he cover...
All was cedar, i.e. all the house was covered with cedar. Quest. How was this true, when it was covered with fir, 2 Chronicles 3:5 ? Answ....
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...
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 diffi...
No stone seen. The temple of God flawless “All was cedar; there was no stone seen.” Take stone in the type for that which was really so, and in...
EXPOSITION SOLOMON 'S TEMPLE .—The preparations for the building of the Temple having been related in the preceding chapter, the historian now...
The Ornamentation of the Temple
And the cedar of the house within, in the walls and ceilings, was carved with knops and open flowers, raised work in flowers and festooning; all w...
Cedar — Cedar is here named, not to exclude all other wood, but stone only; as the following words shew.
18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knopsc and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.