1 Or, Hiram,

1 Kings 5. 1.

2 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

3 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, 1 Chr. 14. 1. As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him a house to dwell therein, even so deal with

id ver. 1.

e Ex. 30. 7.

† Heb. incense of

spices.

f Ex. 25. 30. Lev. 24. 8. Num. 28. 3, 9, 11.

h Ps. 135. 5.

il Kings 8.27. ch. 6. 18.

Is. 66. 1. † Heb. hath retained, or, obtained strength.

me.

4 Behold, I build a house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and eto burn before him †sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.

5 And the house which I build is great for hgreat is our God above all gods.

6 But who is able to build him a house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?

7 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusak1 Chr. 22. 15. lem, whom David my father did provide.

† Heb. to grave gravings.

81Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,

9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be † wonderful great.

10 m And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut

Huram's friendly answer.

1015.

11 Then Huram the king of Before Tyre answered in writing, which CHRIST he sent to Solomon, "Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them.

9.

1 Kings 10.

ch. 9. 8.

1 Kings 5. 7.

P Gen. 1. & 2. Ps. 33. 6. &

12 Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, Pthat made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, tendued with prudence and understanding, that might build a house for the LORD, Rev. 10. 6. and a house for his kingdom.

13 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's, 14 4 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.

102 25. & 124. 8. & 136, 5,6, Acts 4. 24. &

ver. 2.

1012.

HEN a Solomon 1 Kings 6.1. b Gen. 22. 2,

at Jerusalem in mount Moriah,

&c.

14.

Dimensions of the temple.

Before

1012.

where the LORD appeared unto CHRIST David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Or, which David his father.

C1 Chr. 21. 18.
& 22. 1.
Or.
Araunah,

2 Sam. 24. 18.

2 And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. 3 Now these are the things d1 Kings 6. 2.d wherein Solomon was tinstruct† Heb. ed for the building of the house founded. of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

* 1 Kings 6. 3.

f1 Kings 6.17.

† Heb. covered.

51 Kings 6.23, &c.

! Or, las

e

4 And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was a hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

The molten sea.

Before CHRIST 1012.

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

14 And he made the hyail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and twrought cherubim thereon.

15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits thigh, 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 Jachin, and the name of that on the left II Boaz.

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 g And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work, and overlaid them

Bome think
of moveable with gold.

work.

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.

CHAPTER IV.

twelve oxen. 6 The ten larers, candlesticks, and tables. 9 The courts, and the instruments of brass. 19 The instruments of gold.

Maltar of brass, twenty cubits

OREOVER he made a an

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

2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim tot brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

a Ex. 27. 1, 2. 2 Kings 16. 14.

Ez. 43. 13, 16.

1 Kings 7.23. Heb. from

his brim to his brim.

25, 26,

3 And under it was the simili- 1 Kings 7.24, tude 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 cast: 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 Or, like a it received and held three thousand baths.

The furniture of the temple.

Before

1012.

and five on the left, to wash in CHRIST them: †such things as they of fered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

† Heb. the work of 1

burnt offer

ing. f1 Kings 7.49.

Ex. 25.31,
40.

1 Chr. 28. 12,
19.

hi Kings 7.48.

Or, bowls. il Kings 6.36.

k 1 Kings 7. 39.

1 See 1 Kings 7.40. 1 Or, bowls. ↑ Heb. finished to make.

m 1 Kings 7. 41.

n See 1 Kings 7.20.

+ Heb. upon the face.

° 1 Kings 7. 27, 43. I Or. caldrons.

P 1 Kings 7. 14, 45.

† Heb. made bright, or, scoured. 91 Kings 7. 46.

† Heb. thicknesses of the ground.

1 Kings 7. 47.

$ 1 Kings 7. 48, 49, 50.

t Ex. 25. 30.

7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

8 h He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made a hundred Il basins of gold.

9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of with brass.

Before CHRIST 1012.

" Ex. 27. 20, 21.

&c.

↑ Heb. perfections of gold.

with their lamps, that they should burn "after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold; 21 And the flowers, and the Ex. 25. 31, lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that † perfect gold; 22 And the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the Or, bowls. 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.

right side of the east end, over against the south.

11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God; 12 To wit, the two pillars, and mthe pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;

13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on cach wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.

14 He made also bases, and Ilavers 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 P Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, of + bright brass.

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

3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month. 9. 10. 4 And all the elders of Israel i 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 their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered

Before the ark and the staves thereof CHRIST above.

1004.

Or, they

are there, as

1 Kings 8.8.

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 without. And there it is unto this day.

10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses fDent. 10 2,5. fput therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

ch. 6. 11. Or, where.

11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests Heb found. that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by

81 Chr. 25. 1.

course:

12 Also the Levites which were the 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 h1 Chr. 15. 24. of the altar, hand with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets :)

i Ps. 136. See 1 Chr. 16. 34, 41.

k Ex. 40. 35. cl. 7.2.

a1 Kings 8. 12, &c.

b Lev. 16.2.

13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;

14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.

CHAPTER VI.

Solomon blesseth the people.

1004.

LORD God of Israel, who hath | Before with his hands fulfilled that CHRIST 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 I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:

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

7 Now e 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.

ch. 12. 13.

d1 Chr. 28. 4.

2 Sam. 7. 2.

1 Chr. 17. 1. & 25. 2.

11 And in it have I put the ark, f wherein is the covenant of the fch. 5. 10. LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.

12 And he stood before the 51 Kings 8. 22. 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

Solomon's prayer at the

1004.

CHRIST 1004.

11 Chr. 22. 9.

16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, k2 Sam. 7. 12, k† There shall not fail thee a Iman in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy Heb. There children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.

16.

1 Kings 2. 4. & 6. 12. ch. 7. 18.

shall not a man be cut

IPs. 132. 12.

m ch. 2. 6. 1s, 66, 1. Acts 7. 49.

Or, in this place.

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? m Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!

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 this place.

21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they † Heb. pray. shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwellingplace, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive. 22 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

† Heb. and he require an oath of him.

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.

25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of 10r, toward. thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers. 26 When the heaven is shut 1 Kings 17.1. up, 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 serv ants, 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 ch. 20. 9. land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locusts or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them in the cities Heb. in of their land; whatsoever sore, or whatsoever sickness there be: 29 Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any 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:

the land of their gates.

Or, toward 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 knowest; (for thou only Pknowest the hearts of the P1 Chr. 28. 9. children of men;)

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

thy name is called upon this house.