Bible History - Old Testament

- 43- commencement of his reign, celebrated a great festival, probably to inaugurate and consecrate his accession by a public ac ...

- 44- The prayer of Solomon on this occasion once more combined the three elements of thanksgiving, confession, and petition. In ...

- 45- The prosperity of such a reign was commensurate with the fact that it was based upon the Divine promises, and typical of f ...

- 46- that which alone truly exalteth a nation or an individual. The views of Solomon himself on this subject are pithily summed ...

- 47- CHAPTER 6 : The building of Solomon’s temple — preparations for it — plan and structure of the temple, internal fittings — ...

- 48- On the same slopes grew also the cypress,^95 so suitable for flooring, its wood being almost indestructible, and imperviou ...

- 49- 80,000 "hewers in the mountains," or rather, as the expression always means, "stonecutters." The two classes are carefully ...

- 50- aside, the Ark in the innermost Sanctuary would have been seen to face eastwards. Entering then by the east, the worshippe ...

- 51- eighteen cubits high (1 Kings 6:10), and allow a height of two cubits for the roof of the Temple, whose walls were thirty ...

- 52- but every one who would truly enter it must rest for support and strength. Some difficulty has been experienced in computi ...

- 53- Considerable difficulty attaches to a notice in 1 Kings 6:21, which has been variously translated and understood. Two inte ...

- 54- bent outwards, "like the work of the brim of a cup, in the shape of a lily-flower." Under the brim it was ornamented by tw ...

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- 56- CHAPTER 7 : Dedication of the temple — when it took place — connection with the feast of tabernacles — the consecration se ...

- 57- great popular festival; nor yet that of all feasts, that of Tabernacles, when agricultural labor was at an end, probably w ...

- 58- intended rather as a general warning, than as an answer to his petition, and are such as would befit the period of temptat ...

- 59- The Consecration-Services (1 Kings 8:1-21). - These commenced with the transference of the Ark and of the other holy vess ...

- 60- eternal is the Kingdom of God in its widest sense, and God's Presence in grace among His worshipping people, as fully real ...

- 61- The first petition (vers. 31, 32) in the stricter sense opens the prayer, which in ver. 28 had been outlined, according to ...

- 62- 53)may be regarded either as the argument for the last petitions, or else as an Old Testament version of "Thine is the kin ...