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<h2><a onclick="return mV('1Ki',7,'1-');">1Ki 7</a> - Solomon's Palace and the Temple Furnishings</h2>
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<p><span>A. The construction of Solomon's palace.</span></p>
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<p class="c1"><span>1. (<a onclick="return mV('1Ki',7,1);">1</a>) Solomon builds his house.</span></p>
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<p class="c2">But Solomon took thirteen years to build his own house; so he finished all his house.</p>
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<p class="c4"><span>a. <b><span class="c3">But Solomon took thirteen years to build his own house</span></b></span>: <a onclick="return mV('1Ki',6,38);">1Ki 6:38</a> tells us that Solomon spent 7 years building the temple, but here we learn that he spent 13 years building his house. The temple was glorious, but it seems that Solomon wanted a house that was more glorious than the temple.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. "It does show the place which his own personal comfort and luxurious tastes had come to occupy in the life of Solomon . . . It is often by such simple, and unexpected tests, that the deepest facts of a human life are revealed." (Morgan)</p>
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<p class="c5">ii. We could say that Solomon finished the work of building the temple; the Christian cannot say that the work of spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ is finished.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">So he finished all his house</span></b>: The following passage describes what a magnificent house Solomon had.</p>
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<p class="c1"><span>2. (<a onclick="return mV('1Ki',7,'2-12');">2-12</a>) The splendor of Solomon's palace.</span></p>
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<p class="c2">He also built the House of the Forest of Lebanon; its length <i>was </i>one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, with four rows of cedar pillars, and cedar beams on the pillars. And <i>it was </i>paneled with cedar above the beams that <i>were </i>on forty-five pillars, fifteen <i>to </i>a row. <i>There were </i>windows <i>with beveled frames in </i>three rows, and window <i>was </i>opposite window <i>in </i>three tiers. And all the doorways and doorposts <i>had </i>rectangular frames; and window <i>was </i>opposite window <i>in </i>three tiers. He also made the Hall of Pillars: its length <i>was </i>fifty cubits, and its width thirty cubits; and in front of them <i>was </i>a portico with pillars, and a canopy <i>was </i>in front of them. Then he made a hall for the throne, the Hall of Judgment, where he might judge; and <i>it was </i>paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling. And the house where he dwelt <i>had </i>another court inside the hall, of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken <i>as wife.</i> All these <i>were of </i>costly stones cut to size, trimmed with saws, inside and out, from the foundation to the eaves, and also on the outside to the great court. The foundation <i>was of </i>costly stones, large stones, some ten cubits and some eight cubits. And above <i>were </i>costly stones, hewn to size, and cedar wood. The great court <i>was </i>enclosed with three rows of hewn stones and a row of cedar beams. So were the inner court of the house of the <span class="c6">Lord</span> and the vestibule of the temple.</p>
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<p class="c4"><span>a. <b><span class="c3">The House of the Forest of Lebanon</span></b></span>: So much magnificent cedar wood from Lebanon was used to build Solomon's palace that they called it the <span>"<b><span class="c3">House of the Forest of Lebanon</span></b>." Walking in the richly paneled walls of the palace was like walking in a forest. </span></p>
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<p class="c5"><span>i. </span>The <b><span class="c3">forty-five pillars</span></b> set in the House of the Forest of Lebanon also gave the impression of being in a majestic forest.</p>
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<p class="c5">ii. <a onclick="return mV('1Ki',10,'16-17');">1Ki 10:16-17</a> mentions 500 gold shields that were hung in the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Isaiah specifically called this building an armory in <a onclick="return mV('Isa',22,8);">Isa 22:8</a>.</p>
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<p class="c4"><span>b. <b><span class="c3">So were the inner court of the house of the <span class="c6">Lord</span></span></b></span>: At the end of the detailed, magnificent description of Solomon's palace, the writer also mentions that some of the great architectural features of the palace were also used in the <b><span class="c3">house of the <span class="c6">Lord</span></span></b>. We are left with the idea that as great as the temple was, the Solomon's palace was better.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. When one travels in old Europe today, you often come to magnificent cathedrals. These amazing building were mostly built hundreds of years ago at great labor and cost to poor people who could never dream of living in such spectacular places. When their most magnificent buildings were churches, it said something about their values. When Solomon made his palace more spectacular than the temple, it said something about his values. Our most magnificent buildings in the modern world - usually given over to business, shopping, or entertainment - say something about our values.</p>
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<p class="c5">ii. <a onclick="return mV('Hag',1,'3-10');">Hag 1:3-10</a> speaks powerfully to those who think more about their house than they do the house of God.</p>
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<p><span>B. Huram makes the temple furnishings.</span></p>
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<p class="c1"><span>1. (<a onclick="return mV('1Ki',7,'13-14');">13-14</a>) Huram - half Israeli and the best craftsman around.</span></p>
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<p class="c2">Now King Solomon sent and brought Huram from Tyre. He <i>was </i>the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father <i>was </i>a man of Tyre, a bronze worker; he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill in working with all kinds of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and did all his work.</p>
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<p class="c4"><span>a. <b><span class="c3">Huram from Tyre</span></b>: This man was half Israeli and half Gentile, and he was the best craftsman around. Solomon hired him to do <b><span class="c3">all his work</span></b></span> - that is, the fine artistic work of the palace and especially the temple.</p>
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<p class="c1"><span>2. (<a onclick="return mV('1Ki',7,'15-51');">15-51</a>) Huram makes the needed furnishings for the temple basically after the pattern of the tabernacle furnishings.</span></p>
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<p class="c2">And he cast two pillars of bronze, each one eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of each. Then he made two capitals <i>of </i>cast bronze, to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of one capital <i>was </i>five cubits, and the height of the other capital <i>was </i>five cubits. <i>He made </i>a lattice network, with wreaths of chainwork, for the capitals which <i>were </i>on top of the pillars: seven chains for one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows of pomegranates above the network all around to cover the capitals that <i>were </i>on top; and thus he did for the other capital. The capitals which <i>were </i>on top of the pillars in the hall <i>were </i>in the shape of lilies, four cubits. The capitals on the two pillars also <i>had pomegranates </i>above, by the convex surface which <i>was </i>next to the network; and there <i>were </i>two hundred such pomegranates in rows on each of the capitals all around. Then he set up the pillars by the vestibule of the temple; he set up the pillar on the right and called its name Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the left and called its name Boaz. The tops of the pillars were in the shape of lilies. So the work of the pillars was finished. And he made the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; <i>it was </i>completely round. Its height <i>was </i>five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference. Below its brim <i>were </i>ornamental buds encircling it all around, ten to a cubit, all the way around the Sea. The ornamental buds <i>were </i>cast in two rows when it was cast. It stood on twelve oxen: three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; the Sea <i>was set </i>upon them, and all their back parts <i>pointed </i>inward. It <i>was </i>a handbreadth thick; and its brim was shaped like the brim of a cup, <i>like </i>a lily blossom. It contained two thousand baths. He also made ten carts of bronze; four cubits <i>was </i>the length of each cart, four cubits its width, and three cubits its height. And this <i>was </i>the design of the carts: They had panels, and the panels <i>were </i>between frames; on the panels that <i>were </i>between the frames <i>were </i>lions, oxen, and cherubim. And on the frames <i>was </i>a pedestal on top. Below the lions and oxen <i>were </i>wreaths of plaited work. Every cart had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze, and its four feet had supports. Under the laver <i>were </i>supports of cast <i>bronze </i>beside each wreath. Its opening inside the crown at the top <i>was </i>one cubit in diameter; and the opening <i>was </i>round, shaped <i>like </i>a pedestal, one and a half cubits in outside diameter; and also on the opening <i>were </i>engravings, but the panels were square, not round. Under the panels <i>were </i>the four wheels, and the axles of the wheels <i>were joined </i>to the cart. The height of a wheel <i>was </i>one and a half cubits. The workmanship of the wheels <i>was </i>like the workmanship of a chariot wheel; their axle pins, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs <i>were </i>all of cast <i>bronze</i>. And <i>there were </i>four supports at the four corners of each cart; its supports <i>were </i>part of the cart itself. On the top of the cart, at the height of half a cubit, <i>it was </i>perfectly round. And on the top of the cart, its flanges and its panels <i>were </i>of the same casting. On the plates of its flanges and on its panels he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, wherever there was a clear space on each, with wreaths all around. Thus he made the ten carts. All of them were of the same mold, one measure, <i>and </i>one shape. Then he made ten lavers of bronze; each laver contained forty baths, <i>and </i>each laver <i>was </i>four cubits. On each of the ten carts <i>was </i>a laver. And he put five carts on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house. He set the Sea on the right side of the house, toward the southeast. Huram made the lavers and the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing all the work that he was to do for King Solomon <i>for </i>the house of the <span class="c6">Lord</span>: the two pillars, the <i>two </i>bowl-shaped capitals that <i>were </i>on top of the two pillars; the two networks covering the two bowl-shaped capitals which <i>were </i>on top of the pillars; four hundred pomegranates for the two networks (two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals that <i>were </i>on top of the pillars); the ten carts, and ten lavers on the carts; one Sea, and twelve oxen under the Sea; the pots, the shovels, and the bowls. All these articles which Huram made for King Solomon <i>for </i>the house of the <span class="c6">Lord</span> <i>were of </i>burnished bronze. In the plain of Jordan the king had them cast in clay molds, between Succoth and Zaretan. And Solomon did not weigh all the articles, because <i>there were </i>so many; the weight of the bronze was not determined. Thus Solomon had all the furnishings made for the house of the <span class="c6">Lord</span>: the altar of gold, and the table of gold on which <i>was </i>the showbread; the lampstands of pure gold, five on the right <i>side </i>and five on the left in front of the inner sanctuary, with the flowers and the lamps and the wick-trimmers of gold; the basins, the trimmers, the bowls, the ladles, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, <i>both </i>for the doors of the inner room (the Most Holy <i>Place) and </i>for the doors of the main hall of the temple. So all the work that King Solomon had done for the house of the <span class="c6">Lord</span> was finished; and Solomon brought in the things which his father David had dedicated: the silver and the gold and the furnishings. He put them in the treasuries of the house of the <span class="c6">Lord</span>.</p>
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<p class="c4"><span>a. </span><b><span class="c3">He cast two pillars of bronze</span></b>: These impressive pillars were actually so noteworthy that they were given names. They were called <i>Jachin</i> and <i>Boaz</i> (mentioned also in <a onclick="return mV('2Ch',3,17);">2Ch 3:17</a>).</p>
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<p class="c5">i. "The one on the right was given the name '<i>Jachin</i>,' meaning 'He shall establish,' and the one on the left the name '<i>Boaz</i>,' meaning 'in strength.' " (Dilday)</p>
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<p class="c5">ii. "In practical terms the pillars were to be an ever-present reminder to each successive king of the fact that he was ruling by God's appointment and by his grace, and that in God lay his strength. Just so ought believers today to be ever mindful of God's grace in their lives and of their utter dependence on him." (Patterson and Austel)</p>
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<p class="c5">iii. Some believe that the pillars were meant to remind Israel of the twin pillars from the Exodus. The pillar of fire by night and the pillar of cloud by day were constant reminders of the presence of God in the wilderness.</p>
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<p class="c5">iv. Every time someone came to the house of the <span class="c6">Lord</span> in the days of Solomon they said, "Look! There is 'He Shall Establish.' And there is 'In Him Is Strength.'" It set them in the right frame of mind to worship the <span class="c6">Lord</span>. When the crowds gathered at the morning and evening sacrifice to worship the <span class="c6">Lord</span>, the Levites led the people standing in front of the temple with these two great, bronze pillars behind them. It was always before them: <i>He Shall Establish</i> and <i>In Him Is Strength</i>.</p>
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<p class="c5">v. One could say that the house of God itself was <b><span class="c3">Jachin</span></b> and <b><span class="c3">Boaz</span></b>. That temple was <i>established</i> by God, and built by the <i>strength</i> of God. Every time they looked at that temple, they knew that God liked to establish and strengthen things.</p>
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<p class="c5">vi. The house of God was a place where people experienced what the pillars were all about. At that house, people were <i>established</i> in their relationship with God. At that house, people were given <i>strength</i> from the <span class="c6">Lord</span>. From this building, it should go out to the whole community: "Come here and get <i>established</i>. Come here and receive the <i>strength</i> of God."</p>
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<p class="c4"><span>b. </span><b><span class="c3">He made the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other</span></b>: The huge laver was more than 15 feet (5 meters) across, and was used for the ceremonial washings connected with the temple. In addition, Huram <b><span class="c3">made ten lavers of bronze; each laver contained forty baths</span></b>. </p>
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<p class="c5">i. "It was used by priests for cleansing their hands and feet and perhaps also to supply water to the standing basins for the rinsing of offerings (<a onclick="return mV('2Ch',4,10);">2Ch 4:10</a>)." Poole believes that perhaps water came out of the bulls that formed the foundation of the Sea.</p>
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<p class="c5">ii. "The volume of the Sea was 2,000 baths, generally calculated to be about 11,500 gallons." (Patterson and Austel)</p>
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<p class="c4"><span>c. </span><b><span class="c3">The table of gold on which was the showbread</span></b>: <a onclick="return mV('2Ch',4,8);">2Ch 4:8</a> says there were 10 tables of showbread. Here they are described collectively as a unit.</p>
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<p class="c4"><span>d. <b><span class="c3">He put them in the treasuries of the house of the <span class="c6">Lord</span></span></b></span>: All these great works of art and articles of great value were placed in the temple. This included the ten carts and the s<span>hovels, bowls and other needed utensils for sacrifices.</span></p>
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<p class="c4"><span>e. <b><span class="c3">Solomon brought in the things which his father David had dedicated</span></b></span>: God told David that he could not build the temple, but David still collected furnishings and treasures for the temple that his son Solomon would build (<a onclick="return mV('1Ch',29,'1-');">1Ch 29</a>).</p>
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