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列王纪上 7:2

他又建造黎巴嫩林宮,長四十四公尺,寬二十二公尺,高十三公尺半。有四行香柏木的柱子,柱子上有香柏木的橫梁。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cedar;   Lebanon;   Palace;   Solomon;   Thompson Chain Reference - Cedar;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Cedar, the;   Forests;   Lebanon;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Cedar;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Lebanon;   Solomon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Baalbec;   Cedar;   Dwellings;   Esarhaddon;   Forest;   House;   Palace;   Solomon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Canticles;   ;   Cedar;   Forest;   Palace;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Forest;   House of the Forest of Lebanon;   Lebanon;   Palace;   Pillar;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Palace;   Pillar;   Temple;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Forest;   Pillar;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Cedar;   Jerusalem;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Cedar;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cedar;   Court of the Sanctuary;   Forest;   Four;   King;   Palace;   Samson;   Solomon;   Temple;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Palace;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
又 建 造 利 巴 嫩 林 宫 , 长 一 百 肘 , 宽 五 十 肘 , 高 三 十 肘 , 有 香 柏 木 柱 三 ( 原 文 作 四 ) 行 , 柱 上 有 香 柏 木 柁 梁 。

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

1 Kings 9:19, 1 Kings 10:17, 2 Chronicles 9:16, Song of Solomon 7:4

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 10:21 - the house 2 Chronicles 8:6 - and in Lebanon Proverbs 9:1 - pillars Ecclesiastes 2:4 - I builded Isaiah 22:8 - the armour

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are the best person among the people of this time, so you and your family can go into the boat.
Genesis 7:8
The clean animals, the unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls on the ground
Genesis 7:11
When Noah was six hundred years old, the flood started. On the seventeenth day of the second month of that year the underground springs split open, and the clouds in the sky poured out rain.
Genesis 7:15
Every creature that had the breath of life came to Noah in the boat in groups of two.
Genesis 7:19
The water rose so much that even the highest mountains under the sky were covered by it.
Genesis 7:21
All living things that moved on the earth died. This included all the birds, tame animals, wild animals, and creatures that swarm on the earth, as well as all human beings.
Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord . He took some of all the clean birds and animals, and he burned them on the altar as offerings to God.
Leviticus 10:10
You must keep what is holy separate from what is not holy; you must keep what is clean separate from what is unclean.
Ezekiel 44:23
They must teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is not holy. They must help my people know what is unclean and what is clean.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon,.... Besides the temple, his own palace, and the queen's; so called, not because it was built on Mount Lebanon, which lay at the northern border of the land, at a great distance from Jerusalem, whereas this was both a magazine of arms, and a court of judicature, 1 Kings 7:7; see

1 Kings 10:17; neither of which can be supposed to be far from Jerusalem; but because not only it was built of the cedars of Lebanon, but in a situation, and among groves of trees which resembled it; it seems to have been a summer house; and so the Targum calls it, a royal house of refreshment:

the length thereof [was] an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty and the height thereof thirty cubits; so that it was in every measure larger than the temple; and, there was good reason for it, since into that only the priests entered; whereas into this went not only Solomon's family but his courtiers and nobles, and all foreign ambassadors, and whoever had any business with him, which required various rooms to receive them in:

upon four rows of cedar pillars; or piazzas:

with cedar beams upon the pillars; which laid the floor for the second story.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Many have supposed that the buildings mentioned in 1 Kings 7:1-2, 1 Kings 7:8, were three entirely distinct and separate buildings. But it is perhaps best to consider the “house” of 1 Kings 7:1 as the palace proper - Solomon’s own dwelling-house (see 1 Kings 7:8); the house of 1 Kings 7:2, as the state apartments; and the house for Pharaoh’s daughter as the hareem or zenana; and to regard these three groups of buildings as distinct, though interconnected, and as together constituting what is else-where termed “the king’s house” 1 Kings 9:10.

The house of the forest of Lebanon - This name was probably given from the supposed resemblance of the mass of cedar pillars, which was its main feature, to the Lebanon cedar forest. Its length of “a hundred cubits,” or 150 feet, was nearly twice as long as the entire temple without the porch. Some of the great halls in Assyrian palaces were occasionally as much as 180 feet.

The breadth “of fifty cubits,” or 75 feet, is a breadth very much greater than is ever found in Assyria, and one indicative of the employment in the two countries of quite different methods of roofing. By their use of pillars the Jews, like the Persians, were able to cover in a very wide space.

Four rows - The Septuagint gives “three rows.” If the pillars were forty-five 1 Kings 7:3, fifteen in a row, there should have been but three rows, as seems to have been the case in the old palace of Cyrus at Pasargadae. If there were four rows of fifteen, the number of pillars should have been sixty.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 7:2. The house of the forest of Lebanon — It was not built in Lebanon, but is thought to have been on Mount Sion. And why it was called the house of the forest of Lebanon does not appear; probably it was because it was built almost entirely of materials brought from that place. See the following verses.


 
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