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1 Kings 7:2–5 The House of the Forest of Lebanon, just the first of several buildings in the palace complex, was much bigger than the temple (see 6:2). This building had so much cedar (7:2–3, 7, 11, 12) that it was named after the forest from which the cedar came. It was apparently designed as a treasury or armory (see 10:17, 21; Isa. 22:8). This shows that Solomon was much more concerned about his palace than about the temple.
1 Kings 7:6–12 The Hall of Pillars was almost as large as the temple. There was a throne hall, also called the Hall of Judgment. Two palaces were built, one for Solomon and one for his Egyptian wife.
1 Kings 7:13–14 Hiram from Tyre, who makes the temple furnishings, is not the king of ch. 5. His mother was an Israelite widow of the tribe of Naphtali.
1 Kings 7:15–21 two pillars of bronze. Two massive pillars, called Jachin and Boaz, were positioned at the temple entrance. Along with their capitals, the pillars stood 27 cubits (40 feet/12 m), almost as high as the temple itself. They may have been freestanding, though some temples from the ancient world had pillars supporting the roof of the porch.
1 Kings 7:23–47 See note on 2 Chron. 4:2–6. The sea of cast metal was a large metal basin containing water. It would remind the people of how the Lord created the world out of water (Gen. 1:1–2:3; Ps. 74:12–17). Associated with the sea were ten stands of bronze (1 Kings 7:27). The basins of v. 40 are not those of vv. 38–39, but different utensils used in cleaning out the altar (see Ex. 27:3), as were the pots and shovels.
1 Kings 7:23 ten cubits from brim to brim . . . thirty cubits (in) circumference. These figures are given in whole numbers. The authors were not trying to give a precise equivalent for pi (which for the ten-cubit diameter would yield a circumference of 31.46 cubits).
1 Kings 7:48–51 Solomon made all the vessels. Hiram takes responsibility only for the work in bronze, while Solomon is in charge of the work in gold.
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