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1 Kings 7:6

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Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he made the porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a threshold before them.

KJV

And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.

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This verse in 1 Kings 7

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
Probably the porch of the “House of the Forest.” Porches of columns immediately in front of columnar chambers were a favorite feature of Persian architecture. The whole verse should be translated, “And he made the porch of the pillars in length 50 cubits, and in breadth 30 cubits, and a porch before them (i. e., the pillars), and pillars, and a base (or step) before them.” Most of the Persepolitan porches had small pillared chambers at some little distance in front of them.

This site's exposition

the House of the Forest of Lebanon

on 1 Kings 7:2-8

The state buildings come in order, beginning with the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Then come the colonnade, the Hall of Justice, Solomon’s own palace, and a palace for Pharaoh’s daughter. The “Hall of Justice, where he was to judge” gives in stone what Solomon asked for at 3:9.

This site's exposition

Solomon made his colonnade

Albert Barnes takes the colonnade for the porch of the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Pillared porches set before pillared halls were a favorite of Persian builders, and at Persepolis small pillared rooms often stood in front of them. John Wesley reads the colonnade as a grand entrance.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

At his house where he dwelt in Jerusalem he built a great hall, or porch of judgment, where was set the throne, or king's bench, for the trial of causes, in which he himself was appealed to ( placita coram ipso rege tenenda--causes were to be adjusted in the king's presence, ) and this was richly wainscoted with cedar, from the floor to the roof,

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

A porch - Supported by divers pillars, for the more magnificent entrance into the house; upon which also it is thought there were other rooms built, as in the house. The porch - Now mentioned which is said to be before them; before the pillars on which the house of Lebanon stood.
And he made a porch of pillars,....

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְאֵ֨תand <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • אוּלָ֤ם[the] porch of

    ʾulamH197 →34 times

  • הָֽעַמּוּדִים֙the pillars

    haamudimH5982 →111 times

  • עָשָׂ֔הhe made

    ʾasahH6213 →2628 times

  • חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים[was] fifty

    chamishimH2572 →163 times

  • אַמָּה֙cubit[s]

    ʾamahH520 →247 times

  • אָרְכּ֔וֹlength its

    ʾarekoH753 →95 times

  • וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֥יםand [was] thirty

    usheloshimH7970 →172 times

  • אַמָּ֖הcubit[s]

    ʾamahH520 →247 times

  • רָחְבּ֑וֹbreadth its

    racheboH7341 →101 times

  • וְאוּלָם֙and a porch

    veulamH197 →34 times

  • עַל־[was] on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • פְּנֵיהֶ֔םface their

    peneihemH6440 →2123 times

  • וְעַמֻּדִ֥יםand pillars

    veamudimH5982 →111 times

  • וְעָ֖בand a threshold

    veavH5646 →

  • עַל־[were] on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • פְּנֵיהֶֽם׃face their

    peneihemH6440 →2123 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

4 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 7:12

    The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams, as were the inner courtyard and portico of the house of the LORD.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 6:36

      Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.

    • John 10:23

      and Jesus was walking in the temple courts in Solomon’s Colonnade.

    • Acts 5:12

      The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people, and with one accord the believers gathered together in Solomon’s Colonnade.

    • Acts 3:11

      While the man clung to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and ran to them in the walkway called Solomon’s Colonnade.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
1 Kings: the study guide →Read 1 Kings 7 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); F. W. Farrar, The First Book of Kings (Expositor's Bible); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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