1 Kings 6:3-13

3 The porch in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits in length, corresponding * to the width of the house, and its depth along the front of the house was ten cubits.

4 Also for the house ¹he made windows with artistic frames.

5 ²Against the wall of the house he built stories encompassing the walls of the house around both the nave and the ³inner sanctuary; thus he made ⁴side chambers all around.

6 The lowest story was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around in order that the beams would not be inserted in the walls of the house.

7 ⁵The house, while it was being built, was built of stone prepared at the quarry, and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any iron tool heard in the house while it was being built.

8 The doorway for the lowest side chamber was on the right side of the house; and they would go up by winding stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third.

9 So ⁶he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

10 He also built the stories against the whole house, each five cubits high; and they were fastened to the house with timbers of cedar.

11 Now the word of the LORD came to Solomon saying,

12 "Concerning this house which you are building, ⁷if you will walk in My statutes and execute My ordinances and keep all My commandments by walking in them, then I will carry out My word with you which I spoke to David your father.

13 "⁸I will dwell among the sons of Israel, and ⁹will not forsake My people Israel."

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1 Kings 6:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST KINGS 6

This chapter gives an account of the building of the temple, for which preparations were before made and begins with the time of its building, 1Ki 6:1; gives the dimensions of it and the porch before it, 1Ki 6:2,3; observes the windows in it and chambers about it, 1Ki 6:4-10; and while it was building, Solomon had a word from the Lord relative to it, 1Ki 6:11-14; and then the account goes on concerning the walls of the house, and the flooring of it, 1Ki 6:15-18; and the oracle in it, and the cherubim in that, 1Ki 6:19-30; and the doors into it, and the carved work of them, 1Ki 6:31-36; and the chapter is concluded with observing the time when it was begun and finished 1Ki 6:37,38.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 9

1. Ezekiel 40:16; Ezekiel 41:16
2. Ezekiel 41:6
3. 1 Kin 6:16, 19, 20
4. Ezekiel 41:5
5. Exodus 20:25; Deuteronomy 27:5, 6
6. 1 Kings 6:14, 38
7. 2 Samuel 7:5-16; 1 Kings 9:4
8. Exodus 25:8; Exodus 29:45; Leviticus 26:11
9. Deuteronomy 31:6; Joshua 1:5; Hebrews 13:5

Footnotes 10

[a]. Lit "in its length"
[b]. Lit "on the face of"
[c]. Lit "width"
[d]. Lit "gave"
[e]. Lit "take hold"
[f]. Lit "finished"
[g]. So with Gr and versions; M.T. "middle"
[h]. Lit "rows"
[i]. I.e. One cubit equals approx 18 in.
[j]. Lit "took hold"

1 Kings 6:3-13

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1 Kings 6:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST KINGS 6

Cross References 9

Footnotes 10