Category: 1 Kings
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The Door on the Right
1 Kings 6:8 “The entrance for the lowest story was on the south side of the house” In the verse above from 1 Kings 6, we have reference to one aspect of Solomon’s temple that can be easy to overlook. It’s about the entrance or door to the “house.” And that’s just it – there was…
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Eternal Spring
1 Kings 6:18-35 “The cedar within the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers . . . Around all the walls of the house he carved engraved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms . . . He covered the two doors of olivewood…
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A Finished Work
Exodus 20:25 “If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it.” 1 Kings 6:7 “When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron…
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Temple Treasures
1 Kings 6:5-6 “And he made side chambers all around. The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad.” There are many things in the Scriptures that are so profound that to plumb the depths of them is clearly impossible. The Scriptures say of themselves that…
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The Body of Christ
1 Kings 5:5 “I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord said to David my father, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.’” In the study of Solomon’s temple, we should keep in mind that this temple is meant…
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Spiritual Measurements
1 Kings 6:2 “The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.” The temple that Solomon built was to represent the dwelling place of God on earth. It was to be the centerpiece of worship in Israel. Yet, Solomon recognized, and we should to, that no physical…
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Perfect Obedience
1 Kings 6:11-13 “Now the word of the Lord came to Solomon, ‘Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father. And I will dwell among the children of…
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The Conscripts
1 Kings 5:13 “King Solomon drafted forced labor out of all Israel.” In the passage above, we are told that King Solomon used forced labor to build the temple. Typically, such conscripts were taken from the surrounding nations that had been defeated in battle. Earlier examples of this can be found in places such as Judges…
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Ministering Spirits
1 Kings 5:13-18 “King Solomon drafted forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men. And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the draft. Solomon also had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country,besides…
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Windows
1 Kings 6:4 “And he made for the house windows with recessed frames.” The words above are an excerpt from the description of Solomon’s temple. It’s telling us that there were windows in it. It’s something that God wants us to know. The King James Version translates the description of these windows as “windows of narrow…
