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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

列王纪上 7:12

大院的周圍有鑿好的石頭三層,香柏木一層,與耶和華的內院和殿廊一樣。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Palace;   Solomon;   Stones;   Temple;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Solomon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cedar;   Esarhaddon;   Palace;   Solomon;   Wall;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Palace;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Persecution in the Bible;   Stone;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Palace;   Temple;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Pillar;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Cedar;   Dwelling;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Court of the Sanctuary;   King;   Palace;   Solomon;   Temple;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Drinking-Vessels;   Palace;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
大 院 周 围 有 凿 成 的 石 头 三 层 、 香 柏 木 一 层 , 都 照 耶 和 华 殿 的 内 院 和 殿 廊 的 样 式 。

Contextual Overview

1 King Solomon also built a palace for himself; it took him thirteen years to finish it. 2 Built of cedars from the Forest of Lebanon, it was one hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. It had four rows of cedar columns which supported the cedar beams. 3 There were forty-five beams on the roof, with fifteen beams in each row, and the ceiling was covered with cedar above the beams. 4 Windows were placed in three rows facing each other. 5 All the doors were square, and the three doors at each end faced each other. 6 Solomon also built the porch that had pillars. This porch was seventy-five feet long and forty-five feet wide. Along the front of the porch was a roof supported by pillars. 7 Solomon also built a throne room where he judged people, called the Hall of Justice. This room was covered with cedar from the floor to the ceiling. 8 The palace where Solomon lived was built like the Hall of Justice, and it was behind this hall. Solomon also built the same kind of palace for his wife, who was the daughter of the king of Egypt. 9 All these buildings were made with blocks of fine stone. First they were carefully cut. Then they were trimmed with a saw in the front and back. These fine stones went from the foundations of the buildings to the top of the walls. Even the courtyard was made with blocks of stone. 10 The foundations were made with large blocks of fine stone, some as long as fifteen feet. Others were twelve feet long.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

three rows: 1 Kings 6:36

the porch: John 10:23, Acts 3:11, Acts 5:12

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:21 - the porch 2 Kings 21:5 - in the two courts 2 Chronicles 4:9 - the court 2 Chronicles 6:13 - the court Ezekiel 8:7 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe off from the earth every living thing that I have made."
Genesis 7:17
Water flooded the earth for forty days, and as it rose it lifted the boat off the ground.
Exodus 24:18
Then Moses went into the cloud and went higher up the mountain. He was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9
When I went up on the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets with the Agreement the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat bread or drink water.
Deuteronomy 9:18
Then I again bowed facedown on the ground before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat bread or drink water. You had sinned by doing what the Lord said was evil, and you made him angry.
Deuteronomy 10:10
I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights just like the first time, and the Lord listened to me this time also. He did not want to destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8
So Elijah got up and ate and drank. The food made him strong enough to walk for forty days and nights to Mount Sinai, the mountain of God.
Matthew 4:2
Jesus fasted for forty days and nights. After this, he was very hungry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the great court round about,.... Which surrounded Solomon's house:

[was] with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams; these rows were one upon another, and were a wall to the court, which were either topped with a row of cedar wood, or that was a lining to the stones

for the inner court of the house of the Lord; or rather as, or like to that, as appears from 1 Kings 6:36,

and for the porch of the house; not the temple, but Solomon's house.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The palace, like the temple, had two courts 1 Kings 6:36, not, however, one immediately within the other. The lesser court of the palace seems to have been a private inner court among the buildings 1 Kings 7:8. The greater court was outside all the buildings, surrounding the palace on every side. Assyrian palaces had always such an external court, and had generally one or more inner courts or quadrangles.

Both for the inner court - By a slight alteration of the text, the meaning would be “as (was done) in the inner court, etc. and in the porch.”


 
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