1 Kings 6:23-28
The word translated “image work,” or, in the margin, “moveable work,” occurs only in this passage, and has not even a Hebrew derivation. Modern Heb...
2 Chronicles 3:1 to 2 Chronicles 5:1 . The Building of the Temple and its Equipment (see notes on 1 Kings 6, 1 Kings 7:13-51 ). What was said i...
image work . carved work. This was no breach of the second commandment, for it was by the Divine Lawgiver's own direction.
And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.
Cherubims of image work— Of wrought work. Le Clerc. Opere coagmentato, or of work formed in different parts, which might easily be taken in pie...
And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold. Two cherubim. These figures in the tabernacle we...
Particulars relating to the Temple This and the following chapter abbreviate what is recorded in 1 Kings 6:7 .
Of image work] LXX has 'wroughtin wood': cp. 1 Kings 6:23 ; 1 Kings 11 ; 1 Kings 11 . Twenty cubits ] This was the length of the four wings tog...
Two cherubims. — 1 Kings 6:23-28 . They were made of oleaster, plated with gold. Of image work. — Literally, a work of statuary. The Hebrew w...
SOLOMON THE chronicler's history of Solomon is constructed on the same principles as that of David, and for similar reasons. The builder of the fi...
In this and the following chapter we have the account of the building and furnishing of the Temple. In all fundamental essentials it was on the patte...
As to the most holy, and the vail of the temple, we, who live under gospel times, can have a clearer apprehension of their significance, since the So...
2 Chronicles 3:1 .
And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold. Ver. 10. Two cherubims of image work. ] Opere exemti...
Fine gold amounting to six hundred talents That is, upward of three millions forty-five thousand pounds sterling. This vast sum was expended on the...
THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE (vv.1-17) We are reminded that the site of the temple was Mount Moriah, on property bought by David from Oman the Jeb...
10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold. 11 And the wings of the cherubims were tw...
Of image work; made in the shape of young men or boys, as they commonly are. Or, of movable work ; so called because they were not fixed to the me...
CRITICAL NOTES.] In two Chapter s is narrated the building of the temple, which correspond with 1 Kings 6 , 7. Here greater fulness of description...
2 Chronicles 3:1 . Mount Moriah, or the land of vision; the place which the rabbins generally allow to be the same where Abraham offered up his so...
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem. The surpassing beauty of the temple I. That God did not need this lavish expend...
EXPOSITION 2 Chronicles 3:1 Mount Moriah . This name מוֹריָה occurs twice in the Old Testament, viz. here and Genesis 22:2 , in which lat...
And in the Most Holy House he made two cherubim of image work, literally, "a work of imagery," that is, sculptured, fashioned according to a conventi...
The Cherubim, the Veil, and the Pillars
Image work — Or, of moveable work, not fixed to the mercy — seat, as the Mosaical cherubim, but in a moving posture. It seems, they were designed t...
10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of imaged work, and overlaid them with gold.