1 Reis 10:19

19 Tinha o trono seis degraus, e o alto do trono era redondo pelo espaldar; de ambos os lados tinha braços junto ao assento, e dois leões em pé junto aos braços.

1 Reis 10:19 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 10:19

The throne had six steps
Up to the footstool of the throne, which was of gold, ( 2 Chronicles 9:18 ) and was high, that everyone in court might see him, and the better hear the sentence he gave:

and the top of the throne was round behind;
had a semicircle at the top of it, like an alcove:

and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat;
or "hands" ^F17, such as the arms of a chair, to lean and rest upon:

and two lions stood beside the stays;
which were not only ornamental, and for support of the stays, but expressive of majesty, and of undaunted courage and resolution to do justice, and of the danger such expose themselves to, who oppose magistrates in the discharge of their office; and in which Solomon was a type of Christ, the lion of the tribe of Judah; and for the same reasons were the like portraits on the steps, as follows.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (tdy) "manus", V. L. Montanus (agkwnev) "brachiola", Sept. in 2 Chron. ix. 18.

1 Reis 10:19 In-Context

17 do mesmo modo fez também trezentos escudos de ouro batido; de três minas de auro mandou fazer cada escudo. Então e rei os pôs na casa do bosque de Líbano.

18 Fez mais o rei um grande trono de marfim, e o revestiu de ouro puríssimo.

19 Tinha o trono seis degraus, e o alto do trono era redondo pelo espaldar; de ambos os lados tinha braços junto ao assento, e dois leões em pé junto aos braços.

20 E sobre os seis degraus havia doze leões de ambos os lados; outro tal não se fizera em reino algum.

21 Também todos os vasos de beber de rei Salomão eram de ouro, e todos os vasos da casa do bosque do Líbano eram de ouro puro; não havia nenhum de prata, porque nos dias de Salomão a prata não tinha estimação alguma.