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Solomon Builds the Temple

1 And ait came to pass in the four hundred and1 eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of2 Ziv, which is the second month, bthat he began to build the house of the Lord.  
2 Now athe house which King Solomon built for the Lord, its length was sixty cubits, its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits.  
3 The vestibule in front of the1 sanctuary of the house was twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and the width of3 the vestibule extended ten cubits from the front of the house.  
4 And he made for the house awindows with beveled frames.  
Commentaries:
John Wesley's Notes
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1 Kings 6:2

The house - Properly so called, as distinct from all the walls and buildings which were adjoining to it; namely, the holy, and most holy place. Length - From east, to west. And this and the other measures may seem to belong to the inside from wall to wall. Cubits - Cubits of the sanctuary. Height - Namely, of the house: for the porch was one hundred and twenty cubits high, II Chronicles 3:4. So that all the measures compared each with other were harmonious. For sixty to twenty (the length to the breadth) is triple: or as three to one: and sixty to thirty (the length to the height) is double, or as two to one: and thirty to twenty (the height to the breadth) is one and an half, as three to two. Which are the proportions answering to the three great concords in music, commonly called, a twelfth, an eighth, and a fifth. Which therefore must needs be a graceful proportion to the eye, as that in music is graceful to the ear.


 
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