1Ki 6:1-7 - Commentary

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Text -- 1 Kings 6:1-7 (NET)

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The Building of the Temple

6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple. 6:2 The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high. 6:3 The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet wide, extending out from the front of the temple. 6:4 He made framed windows for the temple. 6:5 He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it. 6:6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet wide, the middle floor nine feet wide, and the third floor ten and a half feet wide. He made ledges on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls. 6:7 As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.

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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:

· Egypt descendants of Mizraim

· Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel

· Solomon the tenth son of David; the father of Rehoboam; an ancestor of Jesus; the third king of Israel.,son of David and Bath-Sheba; successor of King David

· Ziv 2nd month of the Jewish calendar

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NET Notes: 1Ki 6:1 During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.

NET Notes: 1Ki 6:2 Heb “thirty cubits.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 6:3 Heb “ten cubits.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 6:5 Heb “and he built on the wall of the temple an extension all around, the walls of the temple all around, for the main hall and for the holy plac...

NET Notes: 1Ki 6:6 Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 6:7 Heb “finished stone of the quarry,” i.e., stones chiseled and shaped at the time they were taken out of the quarry.

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