Dimensions of the temple,

and the furniture thereof.

g 1 Kings 6. 23, &c.

Or, (as "some think) of moveable work.

7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubim on the walls. 8 And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. 9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

10 ¶ And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

11 And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

12 And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.

13 The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits and they stood on their feet, and Or, toward their faces were inward.

the house.

14 ¶ And he made the "vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine +Heb. caused linen, and † wrought cherubim there

to ascend.

h Ex. 26. 31. Matt. 27. 51. Heb. 9. 3.

+ Heb. long. i1 Kings 7. 15-21. Jer. 52. 21.

k1 Kings 7. 20.

11 Kings 7.21.

on.

15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits +high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

16 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made a hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

17 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand That is, He Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.

shall estab

lish. That is, In it is strength.

Mouros, twenty cubits the length

OREOVER he made an altar

thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

2 Also he made a molten sea of He from ten cubits + from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height

did compass it round about.

3 And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.

4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.

5 And the thickness of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.

6

f

d

B. C. 1012

1 Kings 7. 24, 25, 26.

Or, like a lily flower.

d See 1 Kings 7.26.

e 1 Kings 7. 38.

work of burnt offer ing.

49.

He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: sucht Heb. the things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in. 7 And he made ten candlesticks off 1 Kings 7. gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left. 8 He made also ten tables, and 1 Kings 7. placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made a hundred basins of Or, bowla gold.

13 And "four hundred pomegranates See 1 Kings on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were † upon the pillars. 14 He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;

15 One sea, and twelve oxen under it.

16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did PHuram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, of bright brass.

+ Heb. upon the face. [Or, euldrons. • 1 Kings 7. 27, 43.

The ark brought into

B. C. 1012.

Heb. thick nesses of the grand

Kings 7.46. 1 Kings 7.47.

1 Kings 7.48, 49,50.

Ex. 25, 30.

17 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.

18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found

out.

the most holy place.

their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

9 And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen with

1005.

1 Kings 7.51.

1004.

22 And the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.

THUS all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.

2 Then Solomon assembled the 1Kgs 8.1, elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of 1 Sam. 6. 12. the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.

41 Kings 8.2. 3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king Sch. 7. 8, in the feast which was in the seventh month.

4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.

5 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up.

6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim :

8 For the cherubim spread forth

B. C. 1004.

Or, they are

there, as
1 Kings 8. 8.

|| Or, where. f Deut. 10. 2,5. ch. 6. 11.

And there it is unto this day. 10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses' put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt. 11 ¶ And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not† Heb. found. then wait by course:

12 Also the Levites which were the 8 1 Chr. 25. 1. singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hun-1 Chr. 15. 24. dred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets :)

THEN said Solomon, The LORD 1 Kings 8.

hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

2 But I have built a house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.

3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.

4 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,

5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose

12,

b Lev. 16. 2.

B. C. 1004. I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:

c ch. 12, 13.

d 1 Chr. 28. 4.

e 2 Sam. 7. 2. 1 Chr. 17. 1. & 28. 2.

fch. 5. 10.

51 Kings 8. 22.

+ Heb. the of, &c.

6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and dhave chosen David to be over my people Israel.

7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

8 But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build a house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:

9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

10 The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

11 And in it have I put the ark, f wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.

12 And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:

13 For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five length there cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven, 14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, h there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts :

h Ex. 15. 11. Deut. 4. 39. & 7.9.

i 1 Chr. 22. 9.

k 2 Sam. 7. 12,

16. 1 Kings 2.

4. & 6. 12. ch. 7. 18.

+Heb. There

shall not a
man be cut
aff.

1 Ps. 132. 12.

15 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.

16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, + There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.

17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.

18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!

B. C. 1004.

ch. 2. 6. Is

66. 1. Acts 7. 49.

19 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee: 20 That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward thisOr, in this place. place. 21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make † Heb. pray. toward this place: hear thou from thy dwellingplace, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.

require outh of him.

22 ¶ If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him† Heb, and he to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house; 23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness. 24 And if thy people Israel beOr, be smitput to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house; 25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.

I Or, toward

26 When the "heaven is shut up, a1 Kings 17.1. and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;

27 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.

28 ¶ If there be dearth in the land, ch. 20. 2. if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locusts or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore, or whatsoever sickness there be;

29 Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any

+ Heb, in the land of their gutes.

The prayer of Solomon.

B. C. 1001.

Or, toward this house.

man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house: 30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwellingplace, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowP1 Chr. 28. 9. est; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men ;)

31 That they may fear thee, to walk Heb all the in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

1 days which.

+ Heb. upon the face of the load. John 12. 20. Atta & 27.

Ht. thy

Aime is callthis

ed upon buse.

1 Or. right.

? Prov, 20. 9. Foc. 7. 20. James 3.2. 1 Jan 1. 8.

32 ¶ Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;

33 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwellingplace, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy

name.

34 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;

35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

36 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;

tit tuke

des cap

Lee carry

them away. ↑ Heb. bring

heart

37 Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried to their captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;

God's testimony to him.

62, 63.

4 Then the king and all the 1 Kings 8. people offered sacrifices before the LORD.

5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God."

6 And the priests waited on their h 1 Chr. 15. 16. offices: the Levites also with instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.

by + Heb. by

their hand.

i ch. 5. 12.

64.

7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the 1 Kings 8. middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.

65.

8 T'Also at the same time Solomon 11 Kings 8. kept the feast seven days, and all

† Heb. a restraint,

n 1 Kings 8. 66.

o 1 Kings 9. 1, &c.

P Deut. 12. 5.

q ch. 6. 26, 28.

+ Heb. upon whom my name is called.

The cities built by Solomon.

make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.

B. C. 1004.

shall be an astonishment to every 21 And this house, which is high, one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done a Deut. 29. 24. house? thus unto this land, and unto this

a

cause they forsook the LORD God 22 And it shall be answered, Beof their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiphath he brought all this evil upon ped them, and served them: therefore them.

CHAPTER VIII.

The houses and cities built by Solomon, 7 Tribute of service levied by him on the Canaanites, but not on the Israelites. 12 Solomon's solemn sacrifices thrice a year. 14 He appointeth the priests and Levites to their places. 17 His navy fetcheth gold from Ophir.

sacrifice.

⚫ ch. 6. 27, 30.

t ch. 6. 40.

Heb. to the prayer of this

place. u1 Kings 9.3. ch. 6. 6.

* 1 Kings 9. 4, &c.

15 Now 'mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.

16 For now have "I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;

18 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, +Heb. There saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

mon had built the house of the LORD, of twenty years, wherein Soloand his own house,

restored to Solomon, Solomon built 2 That the cities which Huram had rael to dwell there. them, and caused the children of Is

Jer. 22. 8, 9

992.

a 1 Kings 9. 10, &c.

zobah, and prevailed against it. 3 And Solomon went to Hamathderness, and all the store cities, which 4b And he built Tadmor in the wil-b1 Kings 9. he built in Hamath.

upper, and Beth-horon the nether, 5 Also he built Beth-horon the fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

6 And Baalath, and all the store chariot cities, and the cities of the cities that Solomon had, and all the horsemen, and all that Solomon in Lebanon, and throughout all the desired to build in Jerusalem, and land of his dominion.

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