1 Kings 6

8. Believers at Death shall gain honor and dignity, they shall reign as kings; therefore we read of the ensigns of their royalty, their white robes, and crowns celestial (2 Timothy 4:7). We read that the doors of the Holy of Holies were made of palm-trees and open flowers covere…

Grace is the root, peace is the flower that grows out of it; it is Pax in procella, such peace that no worldly affliction can shake. The doors of Solomon's Temple were made of olive tree, carved with open flowers (1 Kings 6:32). In a gracious heart is the olive of peace, and the…

Those in the Temple of Solomon were made of the wood of the Olive Tree only overlaid with gold. For they were very large extending their wings to the whole breadth of the Oracle which was twenty cubits (1 Kings 6:23; 2 Chronicles 3:10). But such was the matter of other utensils…

Learned Cameron has but one note upon this whole fifth chapter, and it falls to be upon this very word [who has wrought] and it is this: This word (says he) as used by the Septuagint, signifies Rem expolire rudem & informem, to polish a thing that is rude, and without fashion: f…

To show you, that if the Holy Ghost does but give a Christian soul so much resolution and confidence, as not to give over praying, till God be pleased to give over answering, it is a good sign, this spirit of faith will certainly prevail at length, all things are possible to the…

Hence we conclude that, so long as the priests were attending in their turns, they did not enter their own houses, that they might be entirely devoted and attached to the worship of God. For this purpose galleries were constructed around the walls of the temple, in which they ha…

That is, there was an hundred and fifty three thousand and six hundred strangers of the posterity of the Canaanites (2 Chronicles 2:17, 18); and thirty thousand Israelites (1 Kings 5:13). Neither was all this multitude engaged in this work for a few days or months, but full seve…

In that of the Temple of Solomon, which was more august and spacious, there was by God's direction two other Cherubims added. These were great, and large, made of the wood of the Olive tree, over-laid with Gold, and they stood on their feet behind the Ark Westward, with their ba…

What then becomes of that famous workman Freewill, and a power of believing in ourselves, do not they work effectually in this Temple? As it was in Solomon's Temple, there was neither axe, nor hammer, nor any tool of iron heard in it, all the while it was in building (1 Kings 6:…

A great revival of religion is expressly compared to this gradual production of vegetables (Isaiah 61:11): "As the earth brings forth her bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring f…