5 And, behold, I purpose to build a house unto the name of the LORD my God, 'as the LORD spake unto Joshual, David my father, saying, Thy son whom I will set n 1 Sam. 8, upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build a house unto my name. 23. 16. i 2 Sam. 7, 18. 6 Now therefore command thou that they hew me * cedar-trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall ch. 6, 20. be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants, according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the 'Sidonians. 7 And it came to pass," when Hiram heard the m 2 8am. 6, words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Song 1, 17. Blessed bet the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people. 1 Gen. 10, 15. 5. ↑ Heb. Jehovah, Deut. 32, 31. 16. 8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have con2 Kings 5, sidered the things which thou sentest to me for: and Psal. 58, 11. I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.. Dan. 8, 28. a ch. 4, 33. 9 My servants shall bring them down from "Lebanon unto the sea; and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my o Ezek. 27, desire in giving food for my household. 3. Acts 12, 20. ↑ Heb. cors. 10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar-trees, and fir-3 trees, according to all his desire. The building and come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Before Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month "Zif, which CHRIST is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD. cir. 1012 b Num. 1,1 2, 3. 2 And the house which king Solomon built for the Exod. 12, LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits. d Ezek. 41, Rev. 21, 16, & 17. 3 And the porch before the temple of the house, eLuke 1,10. twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the John 10, 25. breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth 12 thereof before the house. Acts 5, 11, f Song 2, 9. 4 And for the house he made windows of narrow Is., 3. lights. 5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the "oracle: and he made chambers round about. John 1, 9. 1 Cor. 12, 4. g 1 Chr. 28, Neh. 10, 37. h Exod. 30, 6. 6 The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, Lev. 16, 2 and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house. 7 And the house, when it was in building, was ichap. 5, 13 buiit' of stone made ready before it was brought for 1,27 thither so that there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron, heard in the house while it was in building. 8 The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the 'third. 11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand chap. 422 † measures of wheat for food to his household, and 12 Concerning this house which thou art in buildtwenty measures of pure oil; thus gave Solomon toing, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my Hiram year by year. judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk chap. 2,3 in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father: 14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it. 15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, † both the floor of the house and the the floor of walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the in- the house to side with wood, and covered the floor of the house the f with planks of fir. 16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls, with boards of 16 Besides the chief of Solomon's officers which cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the were over the work, three thousand and three hun-oracle, even for the most holy place. of stone and dred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work. the walls of Heb. holy of holies, Ex. 26, 33. Lev. 7, 6. Num. 13, 10. chap. 8, 6. Chr. 6, 49. Ezek. 45, 3. 2 Chr. 3, 8. Or, wild 19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, gourds, 2 King: 4 to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD. 39. q Ezek. 40, 20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and 34,37. twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid r2ch.s it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar. Chr.3,4 adorning of the temple. Before CHRIST 1005. • 2 Chr. 3, 14, 16. CHAPTER VII. Before CHRIST Solomon's buildings, &c. 21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure? 6 And he made a porch of pillars; the length theregold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold of was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubefore the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. bits: and the porch was before them; and the other un-pillars and the thick beam were before them. 22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, Ex. 30, 1. til he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold. 23 And within the oracle he made two" cherubims 2 Chr. 5, 8. of t olive-tree, each ten cubits high. a Gen. 3,24. Ex. 36, 8, 35 ↑ Heb. wood 24 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from Neh. 8, 16. the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits. x Exod. 25, 22. Psal. 17, 3. & 31, 20. 25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the 27 And he set the cherubims within the inner house: 2 Chr. 3, 11. and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house. 28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold. 29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palmflowers of trees and † open flowers, within and without. ↑ Ileb. opening, verse $2. 30 And the flou of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without. 31 And for the entering of the oracle he made doors Or, five of olive-tree: the lintel and side-posts were || a fifth verse 16, part of the wall. ¿quare, 20, 34. Ezek. 41, 23, 24. y chap. 5, 8. B verse 3. 2 Chr. 4, 9. Rev. 11, 2 1 Answering to part of October, and part of November. 30. 32 The two doors also were of olive-tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palmtrees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims and upon the palm-trees. 33 So also made he for the door of the temple, posts of olive-tree, a fourth part of the wall. 34 And the two doors were of fir-tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. 35 And he carved thereon cherubims and palm- 36 And he built the inner court with three rows a 9 All these were of costly stones, (according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws,) within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court. 10 And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones; stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. 11 And above were costly stones, (after the mea- e Eph. 1, sures of hewed stones,) and cedars. 12 And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the Lord, and for the porch of the house. 13 ¶ And king Solomon sent, and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. h 20, 21. fch. 6, SC. 14, 16. h Ex. 31, 2, 14 He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, S. & 36, 1. and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: Heb. and he was filled with wisdom and understanding, formed, or, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came 2 Kings 25, to king Solomon, and wrought all his work. 15 For het cast' two pillars of brass, of || eighteen cubits high a piece; and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about. 16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits: 19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the 10. 38 And in the eleventh year, in the month || Bul, pillars were of lily-work in the porch, four cubits. (which is the eighth month,) was the house finished 20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had Luke 14, throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all pomegranates also above, over against the belly which the fashion of it. So was he 'seven years in build-was by the net-work: and the pomegranates were two Isa. 9, thap. 7, 1. ing it. hundred, in rows round about upon the other chapiter. 21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the 1 The building of Solomon's house, 2 of the house of Lebanon. temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the UT Solomon was building his own house || thir-name thereof || Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, teen years, and he finished all his house. and called the name thereof || Boaz. 22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily-work: so was the work of the pillars finished. 3 And he made "a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. 24 And under the brim of it round about there were || knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast. 25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking 26 And it was a "hand-breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths. 27 And he made ten bases of brass: four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it. 28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the † borders were between the ver. 29, 36. ledges: ↑ Heb. shootings, Or, hanales. † Heb. kunds. So called of knowl edge, Ex. 25, 18. chap. 6, 17. 1 Chr.21,16. 2Chr. 8, 10. Ezek. 1, 5. Psal 18, 10. & 16, 1, 15. Dan. 9, 21. qEx. 50.18. Lev. 3. 2 Cur. 4, 8. verse 45. and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solo- Before b C Josh. 15, 27 x Josh. 3. 2 Ex. 37, 10 48 And Solomon made all the vessels that per- 1 tained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, y1 Chr. 22, and the table of gold, whereupon the shew-bread 12. was, 49 And the candlesticks of † pure gold, five on the a Ex.37, 28 right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with Ex.37, 11. the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold; Lev. 24, 50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the ba- + Heb. en sons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold; closed gold, and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner d 30 And every base had four brazen wheels, and house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the $137,17 plates of brass; and the four corners thereof had un-house, to wit, of the temple. dersetters under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition. 29 And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions raade of thin work. : 31 And the mouth of it, within the chapiter and above, was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round, after the work of the base, a cubit and a half; and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round. 32 And under the borders were four wheels; and the axle-trees of the wheels were joined to the base, and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit. 33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot-wheel; their axle-trees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten. 34 And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself. 35 And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base, the ledges thereof, and the borders thereof, were of the same. 36 For on the plates of the || † ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved || cherubims, lions, and palm-trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about. 37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size. 38 Then made he a ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths; and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver. 39 And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house; and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, Over against the south. 40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, 2Ch 4.8, and the 'basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD; 41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two net-works, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; 9 There was nothing in the ark, save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, 42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two net-when they came out of the land of Egypt. works, even two rows of pomegranates for one netHeb. upon Work, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that the face of were t upon the pillars; 5. m Ex. 57, 4, Ex. 25, Num. 4, & 2 Chr. 5, Deut. Ex. 16, 35 u 10, 4, Heb. 9, 4. Solomon's prayer at the Before CHRIST 1004. CHAPTER VIII. 13 I have surely built " thee a house to dwell in, a A settled place for thee to abide in for ever. t Lev. 18, 2 Deut 4, 11. X dedication of the temple. Before 1004. u Ps. 65, 1, x Num. 5, 14, 15. 12 Then spake Solomon, The LORD said 'that he towards this place and hear thou in heaven thy CHRIST would dwell in the thick darkness. dwelling-place; and when thou hearest, "forgive. 31 If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and 2 14 And the king turned his face about, and bless-the oath come before thine altar in this house: 32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge ed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the conthy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his Num. 9, 15 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Is-way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to Num 6, rael, which spake with his mouth unto David my give him according to his righteousness. father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying, 2 Clu. 6, 1. P-. 37, 2. u2 Sam. 7, gregation of Israel stood :) 13. 2 Chr. 6, 2. 23. 21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein Deut. 31, is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD, in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands towards heaven: 23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no god like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart; 24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day. 25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, 12 Sam. 7, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight Luke 1, 33. to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me, as thou hast walked before me. 36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the siu of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou Ps. 94, 12, teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance. 37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pesti- 2 Pet. 2, 21. lence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities, whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness, there be; 42 (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched-out arm;) when he shall come and pray towards this house: 43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called 27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Be-by thy name. 2 Cor. 12, hold, the "heaven, and heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have o 2 Chr. 20, builded! 2. ?. Jer. 23, 24. Isaiah 66, 1. 28 Yet have thou respect unto the P prayer of thy q Ps. 33, 18. Phil 11. s Dur. 6, 10. 30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray 11. mi Mat. 2, 1 Acts 8, 27. n Ex. 12,38 Esth. G 17 Jo 2, 44 If thy people go out to battle against their 2 enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name: 45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. r Pr. 20, 3. 46 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and de- Eccl. 7, 21 liver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy far or near; 1 John 1, 8 s Lev. 26,40 12, 13 47-Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land Chr., whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that Solomon blesseth the people: CHRIST 1004. God's covenant with him. the burnt-offerings and meat-offerings, and the fat of Before CHRIST 1004. o Lev. 2 I. KINGS. Before carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; 48 And so return unto thee with all their heart, 65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, Israel with him, a great congregation, from the enter- 34 which led them away captive, and pray unto theeing in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before toward their land which thou gavest unto their fathers, the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which fourteen days. I have built for thy name: (Jer. 29, 12, 13, 14. 49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplicaverse 45. tion in heaven thy dwelling-place, and "maintain I. 10,6,7 their cause, Zech. 1, 15. 50 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them: X 51 For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: 52 That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee; 53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O ́LORD GOD. 54 I And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. 55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, d 56 Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto d Josh. 21, his people Israel, according to all that he promised: Luke 1, 68. there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his & 23, 14. 12 Kings Jer. 7, 15. 7 Then will cut off Israel out of the land which 17, 2 I have given them: and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; 25,9 and Israel shall be " a proverb and a by-word among all people: m n 8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house? m Deut. 28 $7. 9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook Jer. 22, 8. the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon 14 other gods, and have worshipped them, and served 11. them therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil. r Ps. 12, 3. 101 And it came to pass at the end of twenty s2 Chr. 8, 1 years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house, 11 (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar-trees, and fir-trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then Solomon gave 63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace-offer-Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. t chap. 7, 1 Phil. 3, 12. ings, which he offered unto the LORD, " two and twen- 12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities 1 Lev. 3, 1. ty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thou-which Solomon had given him; and they † pleased † Heb. wert m2 Chr. 15, sand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel him not. dedicated the house of the LORD. not right in his eyes, 13 And he said, What cities are these which thou 2 Chr. 8, 2 hast given me, "my brother? And he called them the uch. 20, 32. land of Cabul unto this day. 14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of Chr. 22 gold. 15 And this is the reason of the levy which king y ch & 18 |