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Poole on 1 Kings 6:3, 4: The Porch and Windows of the Temple
[A fundraising update: We are about 30% of the way to our fundraising goal 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project.] Verse 3:[1] And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the hous
Dr. Dilday
4 days ago6 min read


Poole on 1 Kings 6:2: The Dimensions of the Temple
Verse 2:[1] And (see Ezek. 41:1, etc.) the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits. The house; properly so called, as distinct from all the walls and buildings which were adjoining to it, to wit, the holy and most holy place. [Sixty cubits, etc.] The form of the Temple is not much different from the form of the Tabernacle (Martyr); yet it was two times
Dr. Dilday
May 214 min read


Poole on 1 Kings 6:1: From the Exodus to the Temple
[1012 BC] Verse 1:[1] And (2 Chron. 3:1, 2) it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that (Acts 7:47) he began to build (Heb. built[2]) the house of the LORD. [In the four hundred and eightieth year of the exodus, etc.] Thus in the Hebrew, Chaldean, and most Greek codices. Yet many, deterred by the d
Dr. Dilday
May 1528 min read


Poole's Outline of 1 Kings 6: Solomon's Temple
The building of the temple, and the time thereof; the form and largeness, windows, chambers, and materials, 1-10. God’s promise unto it, 11-13. The ceiling and adorning it, 14, 15. The oracle, 16-22. The cherubims, and divers ornaments, 23-30. The doors, 31-35. The inner court, 36. The time in building, 37, 38.
Dr. Dilday
May 141 min read
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