1 Re 6:7

7 Per la costruzione della casa si servirono di pietre già approntate alla cava; in guisa che nella casa, durante la sua costruzione, non s’udì mai rumore di martello, d’ascia o d’altro strumento di ferro.

1 Re 6:7 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 6:7

And the house, when it was in building
And all the while it was building:

was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither;
being hewn or squared by the builders and stonesquarers of Solomon and Hiram, ( 1 Kings 5:18 ) ; wherefore the builders had nothing more to do than to lay them in their proper places in the building; it was built with these stones quite up to the ceiling, as Josephus says ^F20; and these so admirably polished, and so artificially joined together, that not the least sign of an axe, or of any working tool, could be discerned in them:

so that there was neither hammer, nor axe, [nor] any tool of iron,
heard in the house while it was in building;
the first of these observations shows, that none are to be laid in the spiritual building of the church, but such as are first hewed and squared by the Spirit, grace, and word of God: or who have an experience of the grace of God, are sound in the faith, and of becoming lives and good conduct; and the other denotes, that such as are therein, whether ministers or members, should do all they do for the edification of the church in a quiet and peaceable manner, without clamour, contention, fights, and tumults.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 Antiqu. l. 8. c. 3. sect. 2.

1 Re 6:7 In-Context

5 Egli costruì, a ridosso del muro della casa, tutt’intorno, de’ piani che circondavano i muri della casa: del luogo santo e del luogo santissimo; e fece delle camere laterali, tutt’all’intorno.

6 Il piano inferiore era largo cinque cubiti; quello di mezzo sei cubiti, e il terzo sette cubiti; perch’egli avea fatto delle sporgenze tutt’intorno ai muri esterni della casa, affinché le travi non fossero incastrate nei muri della casa.

7 Per la costruzione della casa si servirono di pietre già approntate alla cava; in guisa che nella casa, durante la sua costruzione, non s’udì mai rumore di martello, d’ascia o d’altro strumento di ferro.

8 L’ingresso del piano di mezzo si trovava al lato destro della casa; e per una scala a chiocciola si saliva al piano di mezzo, e dal piano di mezzo al terzo.

9 Dopo aver finito di costruire la casa, Salomone la coperse di travi e di assi di legno di cedro.