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7:1 Solomon <08010> took <03615> thirteen <06240> <07969> years <08141> to build <01129> his palace <01004>. 7:2 He named <01129> it “The Palace <01004> of the Lebanon <03844> Forest <03293>”; it was 150 <02572> <03967> feet <0520> long <0753>, 75 feet <0520> wide <07341>, and 45 <07970> feet <0520> high <06967>. It had four <0702> rows <02905> of cedar <0730> pillars <05982> and cedar <0730> beams <03773> above <05921> the pillars <05982>. 7:3 The roof above <04605> the beams <06763> supported <05921> by the pillars <05982> was also made of <05603> cedar <0730>; there were forty-five <02568> <02568> <0705> beams, fifteen <06240> per row <02905>. 7:4 There were three <07969> rows <02905> of windows <08261> arranged in sets <06471> of three <07969>. 7:5 All <03605> of the entrances <04201> <06607> were rectangular <07251> in shape <08260> and they were arranged <04136> in sets <06471> of three <07969>. 7:6 He made <06213> a colonnade <05982> <0197> 75 feet <0520> <02572> long <0753> and 45 feet <0520> <07970> wide <07341>. There was a porch <0197> in <05921> front <06440> of this and pillars <05982> and a roof <05646> in <05921> front <06440> of the porch. 7:7 He also made <06213> a throne <03678> room <0197>, called <08033> “The Hall <0197> of Judgment <04941>,” where <0834> he made judicial decisions <08199>. It was paneled <05603> with cedar <0730> from the floor <07172> to <05704> the rafters. 7:8 The palace <01004> where <0834> he lived <03427> was constructed in a similar way. He also constructed <06213> a palace <01004> like this hall <0197> for Pharaoh’s <06547> daughter <01323>, whom <0834> he <08010> had married <03947>. 7:9 All <03605> of these <0428> were built with the best <03368> stones <068>, chiseled <01496> to the right size <04060> and cut <01641> with a saw <04050> on all sides <02351>, from the foundation <04527> to <05704> the edge of the roof <02947> and from the outside <02351> to <05704> the great <01419> courtyard <02691>. 7:10 The foundation <03245> was made of large <01419> valuable <03368> stones <068> <068> <068> <068>, measuring either 15 feet <0520> <06235> or 12 feet <0520> <08083>. 7:11 Above <04605> the foundation the best <03368> stones <068>, chiseled <01496> to the right size <04060>, were used along with cedar <0730>. 7:12 Around <05439> the great <01419> courtyard <02691> were three <07969> rows <02905> of chiseled stones <01496> and one row <02905> of cedar <0730> beams <03773>, like the inner <06442> courtyard <02691> of the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004> and the hall <0197> of the palace <01004>.

• 1Ki 7:1-12 -- The Building of the Royal Palace

• Wall

  [ebd] Cities were surrounded by walls, as distinguished from "unwalled villages" (Ezek. 38:11; Lev. 25:29-34). They were made thick and strong (Num. 13:28; Deut. 3:5). Among the Jews walls were built of stone, some of those in the...
  

• TEMPLE, A1

  [isbe] TEMPLE, A1 - tem'-p'l (hekhal, "palace"; sometimes, as in 1 Ki 6:3,5, etc.; Ezek 41:1,15 ff, used for "the holy place" only; bayith, "house," thus always in the Revised Version (British and American); hieron, naos): A. STRUC...
  

• Solomon

  [ebd] peaceful, (Heb. Shelomoh), David's second son by Bathsheba, i.e., the first after their legal marriage (2 Sam. 12). He was probably born about B.C. 1035 (1 Chr. 22:5; 29:1). He succeeded his father on the throne in early man...
  [isbe] SOLOMON - sol'-o-mun (shelomoh; New Testament Solomon): I. EARLY LIFE 1. Name and Meaning 2. Sources 3. Birth and Upbringing 4. His Accession 5. Closing Days of David II. REIGN OF SOLOMON 1. His Vision 2. His Policy 3. Its R...
  [smith] (peaceful). I. Early life and occasion to the throne . --Solomon was the child of David?s old age, the last born of all his sons. (1 Chronicles 3:5) The yearnings of the "man of war" led him to give to the new-horn infant ...
  [nave] SOLOMON Son of David by Bathsheba, 2 Sam. 12:24; 1 Kin. 1:13, 17, 21. Named Jedidiah, by Nathan the prophet, 2 Sam. 12:24, 25. Ancestor of Joseph, Matt. 1:6. Succeeds David to the throne of Israel, 1 Kin. 1:11-48; 2:12; 1...
  

• Porch, Solomon's

  [ebd] a colonnade on the east of the temple, so called from a tradition that it was a relic of Solomon's temple left standing after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. (Comp. 1 Kings 7:6.) The word "porch" is in the N...
  

• Pharaoh

  [ebd] the official title borne by the Egyptian kings down to the time when that country was conquered by the Greeks. (See EGYPT.) The name is a compound, as some think, of the words Ra, the "sun" or "sun-god," and the article phe,...
  

• Palace

  [ebd] Used now only of royal dwellings, although originally meaning simply (as the Latin word palatium, from which it is derived, shows) a building surrounded by a fence or a paling. In the Authorized Version there are many differ...
  [isbe] PALACE - pal'-as: In Hebrew chiefly 'armon, in the Revised Version (British and American) text translated "castle" in 1 Ki 16:18; 2 Ki 15:25; birah, hekhal, the same word often rendered "temple"; in Greek aule, in the Revise...
  [nave] PALACE For kings, 1 Kin. 21:1; 2 Kin. 15:25; Jer. 49:27; Amos 1:12; Nah. 2:6. Of David, 2 Sam. 7:2. Of Solomon, 1 Kin. 7:1-12. At Babylon, Dan. 4:29; 5:5; 6:18. At Shushan, Neh. 1:1; Esth. 1:2; 7:7; Dan. 8:2. Archives k...
  

• KING; KINGDOM

  [isbe] KING; KINGDOM - king'-dum: I. KING 1. Etymology and Definition 2. Earliest Kings 3. Biblical Signification of the Title II. KINGDOM 1. Israel's Theocracy 2. Period of Judges 3. Establishment of the Monarchy 4. Appointment of...
  

• JERUSALEM, 4

  [isbe] JERUSALEM, 4 - IX. History. Pre-Israelite period.--The beginnings of Jerusalem are long before recorded history: at various points in the neighborhood, e.g. at el Bukei`a to the Southwest, and at the northern extremity of th...
  

• Israel

  [nave] ISRAEL 1. A name given to Jacob, Gen. 32:24-32; 2 Kin. 17:34; Hos. 12:3, 4. 2. A name of the Christ in prophecy, Isa. 49:3. 3. A name given to the descendants of Jacob, a nation. Called also Israelites, and Hebrews, Gen. 4...
  

• FOREST

  [ebd] Heb. ya'ar, meaning a dense wood, from its luxuriance. Thus all the great primeval forests of Syria (Eccl. 2:6; Isa. 44:14; Jer. 5:6; Micah 5:8). The most extensive was the trans-Jordanic forest of Ephraim (2 Sam. 18:6, 8; J...
  [isbe] FOREST - for'-est: (1) choresh (compare proper name Harosheth), 2 Ch 27:4. In 1 Sam 23:15 ff translated "wood"; in Isa 17:9, "wood"; in Ezek 31:3, "forest-like shade." Applied to any thick growth of vegetation but not necess...
  

• Esarhaddon

  [ebd] Assur has given a brother, successor of Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:37; Isa. 37:38). He ascended the throne about B.C. 681. Nothing further is recorded of him in Scripture, except that he settled certain colonists in Samaria (Ez...
  

• Dwellings

  [ebd] The materials used in buildings were commonly bricks, sometimes also stones (Lev. 14:40, 42), which were held together by cement (Jer. 43:9) or bitumen (Gen. 11:3). The exterior was usually whitewashed (Lev. 14:41; Ezek. 13:...
  

• Church and State

  [nave] CHURCH AND STATE (Identical in the theocratic period. No particular Scripture can be cited, but the student is directed to the legislative, judicial, and administrative functions of Moses, Joshua, the Judges, and Samuel as s...
  

• COURT OF THE SANCTUARY; TABERNACLE; TEMPLE

  [isbe] COURT OF THE SANCTUARY; TABERNACLE; TEMPLE - kort, sank'~-tu-a-ri: By "court" (chatser) is meant a clear space enclosed by curtains or walls, or surrounded by buildings. It was always an uncovered enclosure, but might have w...
  

• CEILING

  [ebd] the covering (1 Kings 7:3,7) of the inside roof and walls of a house with planks of wood (2 Chr. 3:5; Jer. 22:14). Ceilings were sometimes adorned with various ornaments in stucco, gold, silver, gems, and ivory. The ceilings...
  [smith] The descriptions of Scripture, (1 Kings 6:9,15; 7:3; 2 Chronicles 3:5,9; Jeremiah 22:14; Haggai 1:4) and of Josephus, show that the ceilings of the temple and the palaces of the Jewish kings were formed of cedar planks ...
  

• Building

  [ebd] among the Jews was suited to the climate and conditions of the country. They probably adopted the kind of architecture for their dwellings which they found already existing when they entered Canaan (Deut. 6:10; Num. 13:19). ...
  

• Baalbec

  [ebd] called by the Greeks Heliopolis i.e., "the city of the sun", because of its famous Temple of the Sun, has by some been supposed to be Solomon's "house of the forest of Lebanon" (1 Kings 7:2; 10:17; 2 Chr. 9:16); by others it...
  

• BEAM

  [ebd] occurs in the Authorized Version as the rendering of various Hebrew words. In 1 Sam. 17:7, it means a weaver's frame or principal beam; in Hab. 2:11, a crossbeam or girder; 2 Kings 6:2, 5, a cross-piece or rafter of a house;...
  [isbe] BEAM - bem: The word is used to translate various Old Testament terms: (1) gebh (1 Ki 6:9), tsela`, "a rib" (1 Ki 7:3), qurah (2 Ch 3:7; 34:11; Song 1:17), all refer to constructional beams used in buildings for roofing and ...
  

• ARCHITECTURE

  [isbe] ARCHITECTURE - ar'-ki-tek-tur: I. GENERAL HISTORY 1. Plans, Estimates and Measuring 2. Old Testament References II. TEMPLE AND PALACE OF SOLOMON 1. Construction and Materials 2. Style 3. Facts 4. Phoenician Designers III. CO...
  [smith] The book of (Genesis 4:17,20,22) appears to divide mankind into two great characteristic sections, viz., the "dwellers in tents" and the "dwellers in cities." To the race of Shem is attributed (Genesis 10:11,12,22; 11:2-9) th...
  

• AGAINST

  [isbe] AGAINST - a-genst' (kata; enantion; pros): Preposition expressing contrast. When used of direction, equivalent to "toward" (Mt 10:35; 12:14, etc.); when of position, meaning "opposite," "facing," "in front of" (1 Ki 7:5; Gen...
  

• The Royal Palace

  

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