1 Kings 7:1-12
thirteen years 1Kgs 9:10; 2Chr 8:1; Eccl 2:4-5; Matt 6:33 1Kgs 9:19, 1Kgs 10:17; 2Chr 9:16; Song 7:4 beams Heb. ribs, 1Kgs 6:5 *marg. windows 1Kgs 7:5, 1Kgs 6:4; Isa 54:12; Ezek 40:16, Ezek 40:22, Ezek 40:25, Ezek 40:29, Ezek 40:33, Ezek 40:36, Ezek 41:26 light was against light Heb. sight against sight doors and posts were square, with the windows or, spaces and pillars were square in prospect, 1Kgs 7:5 before them or, according to them before them or, according to them. 1Kgs 7:6 a porch 1Kgs 6:3 for the throne 1Kgs 10:18-20; Ps 122:5; Isa 9:7 of judgment 1Kgs 3:9, 1Kgs 3:28; Prov 20:8 from one side of the floor to the other Heb. from floor to floor another court 2Kgs 20:4 an house 1Kgs 3:1, 1Kgs 9:24; 2Chr 8:11 costly stones 1Kgs 7:10-11, 1Kgs 5:17 the foundation Isa 28:16, Isa 54:11; 1Cor 3:10-11; Rev 21:19-20 stones of ten cubits Reckoning the cubit at 21 inches, the ten cubits are 17 feet and a half, and the eight cubits are 14 feet. The magnitude of these stones was certainly extraordinary; but let us hear M. Volney, and our surprise will no longer be fixed on these stones, but transferred from Solomon's house to the ruins of Balbec: "What is still more astonishing is the enormous stones which compose the sloping wall. To the west, the second layer is formed of stones which are from 28 to 35 feet long, by about 9 in height. Over this layer, at the north-west angle, there are three stones, which alone occupy a space of 175 feet and a half; viz. the first, 58 feet 7 inches; the second, 58 feet 11 inches; and the third, exactly 58 feet; and each of these is 12 feet thick. These stones are of white granite, with large shining flakes, like gypsum: there is a quarry of this kind of stone under the whole city, and another in the adjacent mountains, which is open in several places. On the right, as we approach the city, there is still lying there a stone hewn on three sides, which is 69 feet 2 inches long, 12 feet 10 inches broad, and 13 feet 3 inches in thickness. Eph 2:20-22; 1Pet 2:5 three rows 1Kgs 6:36 the porch John 10:23; Acts 3:11, Acts 5:12
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