1 Kings 6:14
in 1 Kings 6So Solomon built the temple and finished it.
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So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
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So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
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This verse in 1 Kings 6
Commentary
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built the house, and finished it
on 1 Kings 6:14-22
The oracle Solomon builds within the house is a perfect cube, twenty cubits in length, breadth and height, overlaid inside with pure gold along with the altar of cedar standing before it. Commentators have long set that cube beside the New Jerusalem of Revelation 21:16, the only other cube given equal length, breadth and height in Scripture, reading the innermost room where God dwelt with Israel as a small pattern of where God will dwell with his people at the end. Between the cube and the outer walls the whole house is overlaid with gold, floor to ceiling, until Solomon had finished all the house.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long. 18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. 19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the L ORD .
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So Solomon built the house, and finished it. He went on with it until he had completed it, animated and encouraged by the promise of the divine Presence in it, provided a proper regard was had to the will and ways of God.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
With panels of cedar. Boards of cedar against the stone wall in order to coat it with gold, as it states below, “And Shlomo covered the inside of the Beis Hamikdosh with refined gold,” 24 Below, v.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּ֧בֶן | vaiyiven | and he built | H1129 → | 376 times |
| שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה | shelomoh | Solomon | H8010 → | 291 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַבַּ֖יִת | habayit | the house | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| וַיְכַלֵּֽהוּ׃ | vaykhalehu | and he finished it | H3615 → | 208 times |
וַיִּ֧בֶןand he built
vaiyivenH1129 →376 times
שְׁלֹמֹ֛הSolomon
shelomohH8010 →291 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַבַּ֖יִתthe house
habayitH1004 →2046 times
וַיְכַלֵּֽהוּ׃and he finished it
vaykhalehuH3615 →208 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
6 stopsEach 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 6:9So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
it leads to
- 1 Kings 6:38
In his eleventh year and eighth month, the month of Bul, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.
- 1 Kings 6:38
Through
1 Kings 6:38In his eleventh year and eighth month, the month of Bul, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.
it leads to
- 1 Kings 7:1
Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.
- Ezra 3:8–13
In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including…
- Ezra 6:14–15
So the Jewish elders built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees…
- Zechariah 4:9
“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent me to you.
- Zechariah 6:13–15
Yes, He will build the temple of the LORD; He will be clothed in splendor and will sit on His throne and rule. And He will be a priest on His throne, and there…
- 1 Kings 7:1
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.