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1Ch 28:11	Strong Concordance	Then David [01732] gave [05414] to Solomon [08010] his son [01121] the pattern [08403] of the porch [0197], and of the houses [01004] thereof, and of the treasuries [01597] thereof, and of the upper chambers [05944] thereof, and of the inner [06442] parlours [02315] thereof, and of the place [01004] of the mercy seat [03727],
	King James	Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Then David gave to Solomon . . . the pattern--He now put into the hands of his son and successor the plan or model of the temple, with the elevations, measurements, apartments, and chief articles of furniture, all of which were designed according to the pattern given him by divine revelation (Ch1 28:19).

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

Then David gave to Solomon . . . the pattern--He now put into the hands of his son and successor the plan or model of the temple, with the elevations, measurements, apartments, and chief articles of furniture, all of which were designed according to the pattern given him by divine revelation (Ch1 28:19).

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Compare Ch1 28:19. As God had revealed to Moses the pattern of the tabernacle Exo. 26; 27, so He had made known by revelation to David the pattern of the temple and its furniture. This pattern, which consisted of a set of directions in writing, David now handed over to Solomon. The houses - The "holy place" and the "holy of holies " - called respectively "the house" and the "inner house" Kg1 6:17, Kg1 6:27, and Ch2 3:5, Ch2 3:8 "the greater house" and "the most holy house." The upper chambers - Compare Ch2 3:9 note. The inner parlours - The small rooms of the "lean-to" (Kg1 6:5 note), entered one from another.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
The sketches and plans of the sacred buildings and vessels. - The enumeration begins in Ch1 28:11 with the temple house, progressing from outside to inside, and in Ch1 28:12 goes on to the courts and the buildings in them, and in Ch1 28:13. to the vessels, etc. תּבנית, model, pattern; cf. Exo 25:9; here the sketches and drawings of the individual things. ואת־בּתּיו is a contraction for בּתּיו ועת־תּבנית, and the suffix refers, as the succeeding words show, not to העוּלם, but to הבּית, which may be easily supplied from the context (Ch1 28:10). In the porch there were no houses. The בּתּים are the buildings of the temple house, viz., the holy place and the most holy, with the three-storeyed side-building, which are specified in the following words. גּנזכּיו occurs only here, but is related to גּנזים, Est 3:9; Est 4:7; Eze 27:24, and to the Chald. גּנזין, Ezr 7:20, and signifies store and treasure chambers, for which the chambers of the three-storeyed side-building served. עליּות are the upper chambers over the most holy place, Ch2 3:9; הפּנימים חדריו are the inner rooms of the porch and of the holy place, since הכּפּרת בּית, the house of the ark with the mercy-seat, i.e., the most holy place, is mentioned immediately after. Ch1 28:12 And the pattern, i.e., the description of all that was in the spirit with him, i.e., what his spirit had designed, לחצרות, as to the courts. סביב לכל־הלּשׁכות, in reference to all the chambers round about, i.e., to all the rooms on the four sides of the courts. לאצרות, for the treasures of the house of God; see on Ch1 26:20. Ch1 28:13-16 הך וּלמחלקות (continuation of לאצרות), "and for the divisions of the priests and Levites, and for all the work of the service, and for all vessels," - for for all these purposes, viz., for the sojourn of the priests and Levites in the service, as well as for the performance of the necessary works, e.g., preparation of the shew-bread, cooking of the sacrificial flesh, holding of the sacrificial meals, and for the storing of the vessels necessary for these purposes, the cells and building of the courts were set apart. - With Ch1 28:14 begins the enumeration of the vessels. לזּהב is co-ordinate with לכל־הלּשׁכות...לחצרות, Ch1 28:12 : he gave him the description of that which he had in mind "with regard to the golden (i.e., to the golden vessels, cf. Ch1 29:2), according to the weight of the golden, for all vessels of every service," in regard to all silver vessels according to the weight. - With Ch1 28:15 the construction hitherto employed is dropped. According to the usual supposition, the verb ויּתּן is to be supplied from Ch1 28:11 after וּמשׁקל: "and gave him the weight for the golden candlesticks and their golden lamps," זהב being in a state of free subordination to the word ונרתיהם (J. H. Mich., Berth., and others). But apart from the fact that no analogous case can be found for such a subordination (for in Ch2 9:15, which Berth. cites as such, there is no subordination, for there the first שׁחוּט זהב is the accusative of the material dependent upon ויּעשׂ), the supplying of ויּתּן gives no suitable sense; for David here does not give Solomon the metal for the vessels, but, according to Ch1 28:11, Ch1 28:12, Ch1 28:19, only a תּבנית, pattern or model for them. If ויּתּן be supplied, נתן must be "he appointed," and so have a different sense here from that which it has in Ch1 28:11. This appears very questionable, and it is simpler to take משׁקל without the article, as an accusative of nearer definition, and to connect the verse thus: "and (what he had in mind) as weight for the golden candlesticks and their lamps, in gold, according to the weight of each candlestick and its lamps, and for the silver candlesticks, in weight - כּעבודת, according to the service of each candlestick" (as it corresponded to the service of each). - In Ch1 28:16 the enumeration is continued in very loose connection: "And as to the gold (את, quoad; cf. Ew. 277, d) by weight (משׁקל, acc. of free subordination) for the tables of the spreading out, i.e., of the shew-bread (מערכת = לחם מערכת, Ch2 13:11); see on Lev 24:6), for each table, and silver for the silver tables." Silver tables, i.e., tables overlaid with silver-lamin, and silver candlesticks (Ch1 28:15), are not elsewhere expressly mentioned among the temple vessels, since the whole of the vessels are nowhere individually registered even in the description of the building of the temple. Yet, when the temple was repaired under Joash, Kg2 12:14; Ch2 24:14, and when it was destroyed by the Chaldeans, Kg2 25:15, vessels of gold and silver are spoken of. The silver candlesticks were probably, as Kimchi has conjectured, intended for the priests engaged in the service, and the tables for reception of the sacrificial flesh after it had been prepared for burning upon the altar. Ch1 28:17 Before וגו והמּזלגות we should probably supply from Ch1 28:11 : "he gave him the pattern of the forks...ולכפורי, and for the golden tankards, according to the weight of each tankard." For מזלנות and מזרקות, see on Ch2 4:22. קשׂוה, σπονδεῖα, cups for the libations, occur only in Exo 25:29; Exo 37:16, and Num 4:7. טהור זהב, in free subordination: of pure gold. כּפורים from כּפר, to cover, are vessels provided with covers, tankards; only mentioned here and in Ezr 1:10; Ezr 8:27. Ch1 28:18 And (the pattern) for the altar of incense of pure gold by weight. In the second member of the verse, at the close of the enumeration, תּבנית, from Ch1 28:11, Ch1 28:12, is again taken up, but with ל, which Berth. rightly takes to be nota accus.: and (gave him) "the model of the chariot of the cherubim of gold, as spreading out (wings), and sheltering over the ark of the covenant of Jahve." הכּרוּבים is not subordinated in the genitive to המּרכּבה, but is in explanatory apposition to it. The cherubim, not the ark, are the chariot upon which God enters or is throned; cf. Psa 18:11; Psa 99:1; Exo 25:22. The conception of the cherubim set upon the golden cover of the ark as מרכּבה is derived from the idea על־כּרוּב ירכּב, Psa 18:11. Ezekiel, it is true, saw wheels on the throne of God under the cherubim (Eze 1:15., 26), and in accordance with this the lxx and Vulg. have made a cherubim-chariot out of the words (ἅρμα τῶν Χερουβίμ, quadriga cherubim); but as against this Berth. rightly remarks, that the idea of a chariot of the cherubim does not at all appear in the two sculptured cherubim upon the ark, nor yet in our passage. לפרשׂים (without the article, and with ל) Berth. thinks quite unintelligible, and would alter the text, reading והסּככים הפּרשׂים, because the two participles should be in apposition to הכּרוּבים. But this is an error; for neither by the meaning of the words, nor by the passages, Ch2 5:8; Exo 25:20; Kg1 8:7, are we compelled to make this alteration. The two first-mentioned passages prove the opposite, viz., that these participles state for what purpose the cherubim are to serve. וסככים לפרשׂים have the signification of כּנפים פּרשׂי הכּרוּבים והיוּ, "that the cherubim might be spreading wings and protecting" (Exo 25:20), as J. H. Mich. has rightly seen. This use of ל, where in ל even without a verb the idea of "becoming something" lies, but which Berth. does not understand, has been already discussed, Ew. 217, d, and illustrated by passages, among which Ch1 28:18 is one. The reference to Exo 25:20 explains also the use of פּרשׂ without כּנפים, the author of the Chronicle not thinking it necessary to give the object of פּרשׂ, as he might assume that that passage would be known to readers of his book. Ch1 28:19 In giving over to Solomon the model of all the parts and vessels of the temple enumerated in Ch1 28:11-18, David said: "All this, viz., all the works of the pattern, has He taught by writing from the hand of Jahve which came upon me." הכּל is more closely defined by the apposition הת מלאכות כּל . That the verse contains words of David is clear from עלי. The subject of השׂכּיל is Jahve, which is easily supplied from יהוה מיּד. It is, however, a question with what we should connect עלי. Its position before the verb, and the circumstance that השׂכּיל construed with על pers. does not elsewhere, occur, are against its being taken with השׂכּיל; and there remains, therefore, only the choice between connecting it with יהוה מיּד and with בּכתב. In favour of the last, Psa 40:8, עלי כּתוּב, prescribed to me, may be compared; and according to that, עלי כּתב can only mean, "what is prescribed to me;" cf. for the use of כּתב for written prescription, the command in Ch2 35:4. Bertheau accordingly translates עלי יהוה מיּד בּכתב, "by a writing given to me for a rule from Jahve's hand," and understands the law of Moses to be meant, because the description of the holy things in Exo 25:1. is manifestly the basis of that in our verses. But had David wished to say nothing further than that he had taken the law in the Scriptures for the basis of his pattern for the holy things, the expression which he employs would be exceedingly forced and wilfully obscure. And, moreover, the position of the words would scarcely allow us to connect בּכתב with עלי, for in that case we should rather have expected יהוה מיּד עלי בּכתב. We must there take עלי along with יהוה מיּד: "writing from the hand of Jahve came upon me," i.e., according to the analogy of the phrase עלי יהוה יד היתה (Kg2 3:15; Eze 1:3; Eze 3:14, etc.), a writing coming by divine revelation, or a writing composed in consequence of divine revelation, and founded upon divine inspiration. David therefore says that he had been instructed by a writing resting upon divine inspiration as to all the works of the pattern of the temple. This need not, however, be understood to mean that David had received exemplar vel ideam templi et vasorum sacrorum immediately from Jahve, either by a prophet or by vision, as the model of the tabernacle was shown to Moses on the mount (Exo 25:40; Exo 27:8); for it signifies only that he had not himself invented the pattern which he had committed to writings, i.e., the sketches and descriptions of the temple and its furniture and vessels, but had drawn them up under the influence of divine inspiration.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

The sketches and plans of the sacred buildings and vessels. - The enumeration begins in Ch1 28:11 with the temple house, progressing from outside to inside, and in Ch1 28:12 goes on to the courts and the buildings in them, and in Ch1 28:13. to the vessels, etc. תּבנית, model, pattern; cf. Exo 25:9; here the sketches and drawings of the individual things. ואת־בּתּיו is a contraction for בּתּיו ועת־תּבנית, and the suffix refers, as the succeeding words show, not to העוּלם, but to הבּית, which may be easily supplied from the context (Ch1 28:10). In the porch there were no houses. The בּתּים are the buildings of the temple house, viz., the holy place and the most holy, with the three-storeyed side-building, which are specified in the following words. גּנזכּיו occurs only here, but is related to גּנזים, Est 3:9; Est 4:7; Eze 27:24, and to the Chald. גּנזין, Ezr 7:20, and signifies store and treasure chambers, for which the chambers of the three-storeyed side-building served. עליּות are the upper chambers over the most holy place, Ch2 3:9; הפּנימים חדריו are the inner rooms of the porch and of the holy place, since הכּפּרת בּית, the house of the ark with the mercy-seat, i.e., the most holy place, is mentioned immediately after.

Ch1 28:12

And the pattern, i.e., the description of all that was in the spirit with him, i.e., what his spirit had designed, לחצרות, as to the courts. סביב לכל־הלּשׁכות, in reference to all the chambers round about, i.e., to all the rooms on the four sides of the courts. לאצרות, for the treasures of the house of God; see on Ch1 26:20.

Ch1 28:13-16

הך וּלמחלקות (continuation of לאצרות), "and for the divisions of the priests and Levites, and for all the work of the service, and for all vessels," - for for all these purposes, viz., for the sojourn of the priests and Levites in the service, as well as for the performance of the necessary works, e.g., preparation of the shew-bread, cooking of the sacrificial flesh, holding of the sacrificial meals, and for the storing of the vessels necessary for these purposes, the cells and building of the courts were set apart. - With Ch1 28:14 begins the enumeration of the vessels. לזּהב is co-ordinate with לכל־הלּשׁכות...לחצרות, Ch1 28:12 : he gave him the description of that which he had in mind "with regard to the golden (i.e., to the golden vessels, cf. Ch1 29:2), according to the weight of the golden, for all vessels of every service," in regard to all silver vessels according to the weight. - With Ch1 28:15 the construction hitherto employed is dropped. According to the usual supposition, the verb ויּתּן is to be supplied from Ch1 28:11 after וּמשׁקל: "and gave him the weight for the golden candlesticks and their golden lamps," זהב being in a state of free subordination to the word ונרתיהם (J. H. Mich., Berth., and others). But apart from the fact that no analogous case can be found for such a subordination (for in Ch2 9:15, which Berth. cites as such, there is no subordination, for there the first שׁחוּט זהב is the accusative of the material dependent upon ויּעשׂ), the supplying of ויּתּן gives no suitable sense; for David here does not give Solomon the metal for the vessels, but, according to Ch1 28:11, Ch1 28:12, Ch1 28:19, only a תּבנית, pattern or model for them. If ויּתּן be supplied, נתן must be "he appointed," and so have a different sense here from that which it has in Ch1 28:11. This appears very questionable, and it is simpler to take משׁקל without the article, as an accusative of nearer definition, and to connect the verse thus: "and (what he had in mind) as weight for the golden candlesticks and their lamps, in gold, according to the weight of each candlestick and its lamps, and for the silver candlesticks, in weight - כּעבודת, according to the service of each candlestick" (as it corresponded to the service of each). - In Ch1 28:16 the enumeration is continued in very loose connection: "And as to the gold (את, quoad; cf. Ew. 277, d) by weight (משׁקל, acc. of free subordination) for the tables of the spreading out, i.e., of the shew-bread (מערכת = לחם מערכת, Ch2 13:11); see on Lev 24:6), for each table, and silver for the silver tables." Silver tables, i.e., tables overlaid with silver-lamin, and silver candlesticks (Ch1 28:15), are not elsewhere expressly mentioned among the temple vessels, since the whole of the vessels are nowhere individually registered even in the description of the building of the temple. Yet, when the temple was repaired under Joash, Kg2 12:14; Ch2 24:14, and when it was destroyed by the Chaldeans, Kg2 25:15, vessels of gold and silver are spoken of. The silver candlesticks were probably, as Kimchi has conjectured, intended for the priests engaged in the service, and the tables for reception of the sacrificial flesh after it had been prepared for burning upon the altar.

Ch1 28:17

Before וגו והמּזלגות we should probably supply from Ch1 28:11 : "he gave him the pattern of the forks...ולכפורי, and for the golden tankards, according to the weight of each tankard." For מזלנות and מזרקות, see on Ch2 4:22. קשׂוה, σπονδεῖα, cups for the libations, occur only in Exo 25:29; Exo 37:16, and Num 4:7. טהור זהב, in free subordination: of pure gold. כּפורים from כּפר, to cover, are vessels provided with covers, tankards; only mentioned here and in Ezr 1:10; Ezr 8:27.

Ch1 28:18

And (the pattern) for the altar of incense of pure gold by weight. In the second member of the verse, at the close of the enumeration, תּבנית, from Ch1 28:11, Ch1 28:12, is again taken up, but with ל, which Berth. rightly takes to be nota accus.: and (gave him) "the model of the chariot of the cherubim of gold, as spreading out (wings), and sheltering over the ark of the covenant of Jahve." הכּרוּבים is not subordinated in the genitive to המּרכּבה, but is in explanatory apposition to it. The cherubim, not the ark, are the chariot upon which God enters or is throned; cf. Psa 18:11; Psa 99:1; Exo 25:22. The conception of the cherubim set upon the golden cover of the ark as מרכּבה is derived from the idea על־כּרוּב ירכּב, Psa 18:11. Ezekiel, it is true, saw wheels on the throne of God under the cherubim (Eze 1:15., 26), and in accordance with this the lxx and Vulg. have made a cherubim-chariot out of the words (ἅρμα τῶν Χερουβίμ, quadriga cherubim); but as against this Berth. rightly remarks, that the idea of a chariot of the cherubim does not at all appear in the two sculptured cherubim upon the ark, nor yet in our passage. לפרשׂים (without the article, and with ל) Berth. thinks quite unintelligible, and would alter the text, reading והסּככים הפּרשׂים, because the two participles should be in apposition to הכּרוּבים. But this is an error; for neither by the meaning of the words, nor by the passages, Ch2 5:8; Exo 25:20; Kg1 8:7, are we compelled to make this alteration. The two first-mentioned passages prove the opposite, viz., that these participles state for what purpose the cherubim are to serve. וסככים לפרשׂים have the signification of כּנפים פּרשׂי הכּרוּבים והיוּ, "that the cherubim might be spreading wings and protecting" (Exo 25:20), as J. H. Mich. has rightly seen. This use of ל, where in ל even without a verb the idea of "becoming something" lies, but which Berth. does not understand, has been already discussed, Ew. 217, d, and illustrated by passages, among which Ch1 28:18 is one. The reference to Exo 25:20 explains also the use of פּרשׂ without כּנפים, the author of the Chronicle not thinking it necessary to give the object of פּרשׂ, as he might assume that that passage would be known to readers of his book.

Ch1 28:19

In giving over to Solomon the model of all the parts and vessels of the temple enumerated in Ch1 28:11-18, David said: "All this, viz., all the works of the pattern, has He taught by writing from the hand of Jahve which came upon me." הכּל is more closely defined by the apposition הת מלאכות כּל . That the verse contains words of David is clear from עלי. The subject of השׂכּיל is Jahve, which is easily supplied from יהוה מיּד. It is, however, a question with what we should connect עלי. Its position before the verb, and the circumstance that השׂכּיל construed with על pers. does not elsewhere, occur, are against its being taken with השׂכּיל; and there remains, therefore, only the choice between connecting it with יהוה מיּד and with בּכתב. In favour of the last, Psa 40:8, עלי כּתוּב, prescribed to me, may be compared; and according to that, עלי כּתב can only mean, "what is prescribed to me;" cf. for the use of כּתב for written prescription, the command in Ch2 35:4. Bertheau accordingly translates עלי יהוה מיּד בּכתב, "by a writing given to me for a rule from Jahve's hand," and understands the law of Moses to be meant, because the description of the holy things in Exo 25:1. is manifestly the basis of that in our verses. But had David wished to say nothing further than that he had taken the law in the Scriptures for the basis of his pattern for the holy things, the expression which he employs would be exceedingly forced and wilfully obscure. And, moreover, the position of the words would scarcely allow us to connect בּכתב with עלי, for in that case we should rather have expected יהוה מיּד עלי בּכתב. We must there take עלי along with יהוה מיּד: "writing from the hand of Jahve came upon me," i.e., according to the analogy of the phrase עלי יהוה יד היתה (Kg2 3:15; Eze 1:3; Eze 3:14, etc.), a writing coming by divine revelation, or a writing composed in consequence of divine revelation, and founded upon divine inspiration. David therefore says that he had been instructed by a writing resting upon divine inspiration as to all the works of the pattern of the temple. This need not, however, be understood to mean that David had received exemplar vel ideam templi et vasorum sacrorum immediately from Jahve, either by a prophet or by vision, as the model of the tabernacle was shown to Moses on the mount (Exo 25:40; Exo 27:8); for it signifies only that he had not himself invented the pattern which he had committed to writings, i.e., the sketches and descriptions of the temple and its furniture and vessels, but had drawn them up under the influence of divine inspiration.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
The porch - Of the temple. The houses - The houses of the temple, namely, the holy place, and the holy of holies. Parlours - Those rooms which were made against the wall of the house round about, Kg1 6:5. The place - In what particular part of the holy of holies it was to be placed.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
David gave to Solomon - the pattern - He gave him an ichnograph of the building, with elevations, sections, and specifications of every part; and all this he received by inspiration from God himself, (see Ch1 28:12, Ch1 28:19), just as Moses had received the plan of the tabernacle. The treasuries thereof - גנזכיו ganzaccaiv. The word גנזך ganzach is not Hebrew, but is supposed to be Persian, the same word being found in Ezr 3:1-13 :19. In this tongue we have the word ganj, a granary, a hidden treasure, and gunjoor, and gunjineh, a treasure, treasury, or barn. Parkhurst supposes that it is compounded of גנז ganaz, to treasure up, and זך zach, pure; a treasury for the most precious things.

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¹⁹ All this, said David, the LORD [03068] made me understand [07919] in writing [03791] by his hand [03027] upon me, even all the works [04399] of this pattern [08403].

⁵ And against the wall [07023] of the house [01004] he built [01129] chambers [03326] [03326] round about [05439], against the walls [07023] of the house [01004] round about [05439], both of the temple [01964] and of the oracle [01687]: and he made [06213] chambers [06763] round about [05439]:

⁹ And the weight [04948] of the nails [04548] was fifty [02572] shekels [08255] of gold [02091]. And he overlaid [02645] the upper chambers [05944] with gold [02091].

⁸ And he made [06213] the most [06944] holy [06944] house [01004], the length [0753] whereof was according to [06440] the breadth [07341] of the house [01004], twenty [06242] cubits [0520], and the breadth [07341] thereof twenty [06242] cubits [0520]: and he overlaid [02645] it with fine [02896] gold [02091], amounting to six [08337] hundred [03967] talents [03603].

⁵ And the greater [01419] house [01004] he cieled [02645] with fir [01265] tree [06086], which he overlaid [02645] with fine [02896] gold [02091], and set [05927] thereon palm trees [08561] and chains [08333].

²⁷ And he set [05414] the cherubims [03742] within [08432] the inner [06442] house [01004]: and they stretched forth [06566] the wings [03671] of the cherubims [03742], so that the wing [03671] of the one [0259] touched [05060] the one wall [07023], and the wing [03671] of the other [08145] cherub [03742] touched [05060] the other [08145] wall [07023]; and their wings [03671] touched [05060] one [03671] another [03671] in the midst [08432] of the house [01004].

¹⁷ And the house [01004], that is, the temple [01964] before [03942] it, was forty [0705] cubits [0520] long.

¹⁹ All this, said David, the LORD [03068] made me understand [07919] in writing [03791] by his hand [03027] upon me, even all the works [04399] of this pattern [08403].

⁸ Hollow [05014] with boards [03871] shalt thou make [06213] it: as it was shewed [07200] thee in the mount [02022], so shall they make [06213] it.

⁴⁰ And look [07200] that thou make [06213] them after their pattern [08403], which was shewed [07200] thee in the mount [02022].

¹⁴ So the spirit [07307] lifted me up [05375], and took me away [03947], and I went [03212] in bitterness [04751], in the heat [02534] of my spirit [07307]; but the hand [03027] of the LORD [03068] was strong [02388] upon me.

³ The word [01697] of the LORD [03068] came expressly unto Ezekiel [03168] the priest [03548], the son [01121] of Buzi [0941], in the land [0776] of the Chaldeans [03778] by the river [05104] Chebar [03529]; and the hand [03027] of the LORD [03068] was there upon him.

¹⁵ But now bring [03947] me a minstrel [05059]. And it came to pass, when the minstrel [05059] played [05059], that the hand [03027] of the LORD [03068] came upon him.

¹ And the LORD [03068] spake [01696] unto Moses [04872], saying [0559],

⁴ And prepare [03559] [03559] yourselves by the houses [01004] of your fathers [01], after your courses [04256], according to the writing [03791] of David [01732] king [04428] of Israel [03478], and according to the writing [04385] of Solomon [08010] his son [01121].

⁸ I delight [02654] to do [06213] thy will [07522], O my God [0430]: yea, thy law [08451] is within [08432] my heart [04578].

¹¹ Then David [01732] gave [05414] to Solomon [08010] his son [01121] the pattern [08403] of the porch [0197], and of the houses [01004] thereof, and of the treasuries [01597] thereof, and of the upper chambers [05944] thereof, and of the inner [06442] parlours [02315] thereof, and of the place [01004] of the mercy seat [03727],
¹² And the pattern [08403] of all that he had by the spirit [07307], of the courts [02691] of the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and of all the chambers [03957] round about [05439], of the treasuries [0214] of the house [01004] of God [0430], and of the treasuries [0214] of the dedicated things [06944]:
¹³ Also for the courses [04256] of the priests [03548] and the Levites [03881], and for all the work [04399] of the service [05656] of the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and for all the vessels [03627] of service [05656] in the house [01004] of the LORD [03068].
¹⁴ He gave of gold [02091] by weight [04948] for things of gold [02091], for all instruments [03627] of all manner of service [05656]; silver also for all instruments [03627] of silver [03701] by weight [04948], for all instruments [03627] of every kind of service [05656]:
¹⁵ Even the weight [04948] for the candlesticks [04501] of gold [02091], and for their lamps [05216] of gold [02091], by weight [04948] for every candlestick [04501], and for the lamps [05216] thereof: and for the candlesticks [04501] of silver [03701] by weight [04948], both for the candlestick [04501], and also for the lamps [05216] thereof, according to the use [05656] of every candlestick [04501].
¹⁶ And by weight [04948] he gave gold [02091] for the tables [07979] of shewbread [04635], for every table [07979]; and likewise silver [03701] for the tables [07979] of silver [03701]:
¹⁷ Also pure [02889] gold [02091] for the fleshhooks [04207], and the bowls [04219], and the cups [07184]: and for the golden [02091] basons [03713] he gave gold by weight [04948] for every bason [03713]; and likewise silver by weight [04948] for every bason [03713] of silver [03701]:
¹⁸ And for the altar [04196] of incense [07004] refined [02212] gold [02091] by weight [04948]; and gold [02091] for the pattern [08403] of the chariot [04818] of the cherubims [03742], that spread out [06566] their wings, and covered [05526] the ark [0727] of the covenant [01285] of the LORD [03068].

¹⁹ All this, said David, the LORD [03068] made me understand [07919] in writing [03791] by his hand [03027] upon me, even all the works [04399] of this pattern [08403].

²⁰ And the cherubims [03742] shall stretch [06566] forth their wings [03671] on high [04605], covering [05526] the mercy seat [03727] with their wings [03671], and their faces [06440] shall look one [0376] to another [0251]; toward the mercy seat [03727] shall the faces [06440] of the cherubims [03742] be.

¹⁸ And for the altar [04196] of incense [07004] refined [02212] gold [02091] by weight [04948]; and gold [02091] for the pattern [08403] of the chariot [04818] of the cherubims [03742], that spread out [06566] their wings, and covered [05526] the ark [0727] of the covenant [01285] of the LORD [03068].

⁷ For the cherubims [03742] spread forth [06566] their two wings [03671] over the place [04725] of the ark [0727], and the cherubims [03742] covered [05526] the ark [0727] and the staves [0905] thereof above [04605].

⁸ For the cherubims [03742] spread forth [06566] their wings [03671] over the place [04725] of the ark [0727], and the cherubims [03742] covered [03680] the ark [0727] and the staves [0905] thereof above [04605].

¹⁵ Now as I beheld [07200] the living creatures [02416], behold one [0259] wheel [0212] upon the earth [0776] by [0681] the living creatures [02416], with his four [0702] faces [06440].

¹¹ He made [07896] darkness [02822] his secret place [05643]; his pavilion [05521] round about [05439] him were dark [02824] waters [04325] and thick clouds [05645] of the skies [07834].

²² And there I will meet [03259] with thee, and I will commune [01696] with thee from above the mercy seat [03727], from between [0996] the two [08147] cherubims [03742] which are upon [05921] the ark [0727] of the testimony [05715], of all things which I will give thee in commandment [06680] unto the children [01121] of Israel [03478].

¹ The LORD [03068] reigneth [04427]; let the people [05971] tremble [07264]: he sitteth [03427] between the cherubims [03742]; let the earth [0776] be moved [05120].

¹¹ He made [07896] darkness [02822] his secret place [05643]; his pavilion [05521] round about [05439] him were dark [02824] waters [04325] and thick clouds [05645] of the skies [07834].

¹² And the pattern [08403] of all that he had by the spirit [07307], of the courts [02691] of the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and of all the chambers [03957] round about [05439], of the treasuries [0214] of the house [01004] of God [0430], and of the treasuries [0214] of the dedicated things [06944]:

²⁷ Also twenty [06242] basons [03713] of gold [02091], of a thousand [0505] drams [0150]; and two [08147] vessels [03627] of fine [02896] [06668] copper [05178], precious [02532] as gold [02091].

¹⁰ Thirty [07970] basons [03713] of gold [02091], silver [03701] basons [03713] of a second [04932] sort four [0702] hundred [03967] and ten [06235], and other [0312] vessels [03627] a thousand [0505].

⁷ And upon the table [07979] of shewbread [06440] they shall spread [06566] a cloth [0899] of blue [08504], and put [05414] thereon the dishes [07086], and the spoons [03709], and the bowls [04518], and covers [07184] to cover withal [05262]: and the continual [08548] bread [03899] shall be thereon:

¹⁶ And he made [06213] the vessels [03627] which were upon the table [07979], his dishes [07086], and his spoons [03709], and his bowls [04518], and his covers [07184] to cover [05258] withal [02004], of pure [02889] gold [02091].

²⁹ And thou shalt make [06213] the dishes [07086] thereof, and spoons [03709] thereof, and covers [07184] thereof, and bowls [04518] thereof, to cover [05258] withal [02004]: of pure [02889] gold [02091] shalt thou make [06213] them.

²² And the snuffers [04212], and the basons [04219], and the spoons [03709], and the censers [04289], of pure [05462] gold [02091]: and the entry [06607] of the house [01004], the inner [06442] doors [01817] thereof for the most [06944] holy [06944] place, and the doors [01817] of the house [01004] of the temple [01964], were of gold [02091].

¹⁷ Also pure [02889] gold [02091] for the fleshhooks [04207], and the bowls [04219], and the cups [07184]: and for the golden [02091] basons [03713] he gave gold by weight [04948] for every bason [03713]; and likewise silver by weight [04948] for every bason [03713] of silver [03701]:

¹⁵ And the firepans [04289], and the bowls [04219], and such things as were of gold [02091], in gold [02091], and of silver [03701], in silver [03701], the captain [07227] of the guard [02876] took away [03947].

¹⁴ And when they had finished [03615] it, they brought [0935] the rest [07605] of the money [03701] before [06440] the king [04428] and Jehoiada [03077], whereof were made [06213] vessels [03627] for the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], even vessels [03627] to minister [08335], and to offer [05927] withal, and spoons [03709], and vessels [03627] of gold [02091] and silver [03701]. And they offered [05927] burnt offerings [05930] in the house [01004] of the LORD [03068] continually [08548] all the days [03117] of Jehoiada [03077].

¹⁴ But they gave [05414] that to the workmen [04399] [06213], and repaired [02388] therewith the house [01004] of the LORD [03068].

¹⁵ Even the weight [04948] for the candlesticks [04501] of gold [02091], and for their lamps [05216] of gold [02091], by weight [04948] for every candlestick [04501], and for the lamps [05216] thereof: and for the candlesticks [04501] of silver [03701] by weight [04948], both for the candlestick [04501], and also for the lamps [05216] thereof, according to the use [05656] of every candlestick [04501].

⁶ And thou shalt set [07760] them in two [08147] rows [04634], six [08337] on a row [04635], upon the pure [02889] table [07979] before [06440] the LORD [03068].

¹¹ And they burn [06999] unto the LORD [03068] every morning [01242] and every evening [06153] burnt sacrifices [05930] and sweet [05561] incense [07004]: the shewbread [03899] [04635] also set they in order upon the pure [02889] table [07979]; and the candlestick [04501] of gold [02091] with the lamps [05216] thereof, to burn [01197] every evening [06153]: for we keep [08104] the charge [04931] of the LORD [03068] our God [0430]; but ye have forsaken [05800] him.

¹⁶ And by weight [04948] he gave gold [02091] for the tables [07979] of shewbread [04635], for every table [07979]; and likewise silver [03701] for the tables [07979] of silver [03701]:

¹⁹ All this, said David, the LORD [03068] made me understand [07919] in writing [03791] by his hand [03027] upon me, even all the works [04399] of this pattern [08403].

¹⁵ And king [04428] Solomon [08010] made [06213] two hundred [03967] targets [06793] of beaten [07820] gold [02091]: six [08337] hundred [03967] shekels of beaten [07820] gold [02091] went [05927] to one [0259] target [06793].

² Now I have prepared [03559] with all my might [03581] for the house [01004] of my God [0430] the gold [02091] for things to be made of gold [02091], and the silver [03701] for things of silver [03701], and the brass [05178] for things of brass [05178], the iron [01270] for things of iron [01270], and wood [06086] for things of wood [06086]; onyx [07718] stones [068], and stones to be set [04394], glistering [06320] stones [068], and of divers colours [07553], and all manner of precious [03368] stones [068], and marble [07893] stones [068] in abundance [07230].

¹⁴ He gave of gold [02091] by weight [04948] for things of gold [02091], for all instruments [03627] of all manner of service [05656]; silver also for all instruments [03627] of silver [03701] by weight [04948], for all instruments [03627] of every kind of service [05656]:

¹³ Also for the courses [04256] of the priests [03548] and the Levites [03881], and for all the work [04399] of the service [05656] of the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and for all the vessels [03627] of service [05656] in the house [01004] of the LORD [03068].
¹⁴ He gave of gold [02091] by weight [04948] for things of gold [02091], for all instruments [03627] of all manner of service [05656]; silver also for all instruments [03627] of silver [03701] by weight [04948], for all instruments [03627] of every kind of service [05656]:
¹⁵ Even the weight [04948] for the candlesticks [04501] of gold [02091], and for their lamps [05216] of gold [02091], by weight [04948] for every candlestick [04501], and for the lamps [05216] thereof: and for the candlesticks [04501] of silver [03701] by weight [04948], both for the candlestick [04501], and also for the lamps [05216] thereof, according to the use [05656] of every candlestick [04501].
¹⁶ And by weight [04948] he gave gold [02091] for the tables [07979] of shewbread [04635], for every table [07979]; and likewise silver [03701] for the tables [07979] of silver [03701]:

²⁰ And of the Levites [03881], Ahijah [0281] was over the treasures [0214] of the house [01004] of God [0430], and over the treasures [0214] of the dedicated things [06944].

⁹ And the weight [04948] of the nails [04548] was fifty [02572] shekels [08255] of gold [02091]. And he overlaid [02645] the upper chambers [05944] with gold [02091].

²⁰ And whatsoever more [07606] shall be needful [02819] for the house [01005] of thy God [0426], which thou shalt have occasion [05308] to bestow [05415], bestow [05415] it out of [04481] the king's [04430] treasure [01596] house [01005].

²⁴ These were thy merchants [07402] in all sorts [04360] of things, in blue [08504] clothes [01545], and broidered work [07553], and in chests [01595] of rich apparel [01264], bound [02280] with cords [02256], and made of cedar [0729], among thy merchandise [04819].

⁷ And Mordecai [04782] told [05046] him of all that had happened [07136] unto him, and of the sum [06575] of the money [03701] that Haman [02001] had promised [0559] to pay [08254] to the king's [04428] treasuries [01595] for the Jews [03064], to destroy [06] them.

⁹ If it please [02895] the king [04428], let it be written [03789] that they may be destroyed [06]: and I will pay [08254] ten [06235] thousand [0505] talents [03603] of silver [03701] to the hands [03027] of those that have the charge [06213] of the business [04399], to bring [0935] it into the king's [04428] treasuries [01595].

¹⁰ Take heed [07200] now; for the LORD [03068] hath chosen [0977] thee to build [01129] an house [01004] for the sanctuary [04720]: be strong [02388], and do [06213] it.

⁹ According to all that I shew [07200] thee, after the pattern [08403] of the tabernacle [04908], and the pattern [08403] of all the instruments [03627] thereof, even so shall ye make [06213] it.

¹ And when the seventh [07637] month [02320] was come [05060], and the children [01121] of Israel [03478] were in the cities [05892], the people [05971] gathered themselves together [0622] as one [0259] man [0376] to Jerusalem [03389].
² Then stood up [06965] Jeshua [03442] the son [01121] of Jozadak [03136], and his brethren [0251] the priests [03548], and Zerubbabel [02216] the son [01121] of Shealtiel [07597], and his brethren [0251], and builded [01129] the altar [04196] of the God [0430] of Israel [03478], to offer [05927] burnt offerings [05930] thereon, as it is written [03789] in the law [08451] of Moses [04872] the man [0376] of God [0430].
³ And they set [03559] the altar [04196] upon his bases [04350]; for fear [0367] was upon them because of the people [05971] of those countries [0776]: and they offered [05927] burnt offerings [05930] thereon unto the LORD [03068], even burnt offerings [05930] morning [01242] and evening [06153].
⁴ They kept [06213] also the feast [02282] of tabernacles [05521], as it is written [03789], and offered the daily [03117] [03117] burnt offerings [05930] by number [04557], according to the custom [04941], as the duty [01697] of every day [03117] required [03117];
⁵ And afterward [0310] offered the continual [08548] burnt offering [05930], both of the new moons [02320], and of all the set feasts [04150] of the LORD [03068] that were consecrated [06942], and of every one that willingly offered [05068] a freewill offering [05071] unto the LORD [03068].
⁶ From the first [0259] day [03117] of the seventh [07637] month [02320] began [02490] they to offer [05927] burnt offerings [05930] unto the LORD [03068]. But the foundation [03245] of the temple [01964] of the LORD [03068] was not yet laid [03245].
⁷ They gave [05414] money [03701] also unto the masons [02672], and to the carpenters [02796]; and meat [03978], and drink [04960], and oil [08081], unto them of Zidon [06722], and to them of Tyre [06876], to bring [0935] cedar [0730] trees [06086] from Lebanon [03844] to the sea [03220] of Joppa [03305], according to the grant [07558] that they had of Cyrus [03566] king [04428] of Persia [06539].
⁸ Now in the second [08145] year [08141] of their coming [0935] unto the house [01004] of God [0430] at Jerusalem [03389], in the second [08145] month [02320], began [02490] Zerubbabel [02216] the son [01121] of Shealtiel [07597], and Jeshua [03442] the son [01121] of Jozadak [03136], and the remnant [07605] of their brethren [0251] the priests [03548] and the Levites [03881], and all they that were come out [0935] of the captivity [07628] unto Jerusalem [03389]; and appointed [05975] the Levites [03881], from twenty [06242] years [08141] old [01121] and upward [04605], to set forward [05329] the work [04399] of the house [01004] of the LORD [03068].
⁹ Then stood [05975] Jeshua [03442] with his sons [01121] and his brethren [0251], Kadmiel [06934] and his sons [01121], the sons [01121] of Judah [03063], together [0259], to set forward [05329] the workmen [06213] [04399] in the house [01004] of God [0430]: the sons [01121] of Henadad [02582], with their sons [01121] and their brethren [0251] the Levites [03881].
¹⁰ And when the builders [01129] laid the foundation [03245] of the temple [01964] of the LORD [03068], they set [05975] the priests [03548] in their apparel [03847] with trumpets [02689], and the Levites [03881] the sons [01121] of Asaph [0623] with cymbals [04700], to praise [01984] the LORD [03068], after the ordinance [03027] of David [01732] king [04428] of Israel [03478].
¹¹ And they sang together by course [06030] in praising [01984] and giving thanks [03034] unto the LORD [03068]; because he is good [02896], for his mercy [02617] endureth for ever [05769] toward Israel [03478]. And all the people [05971] shouted [07321] with a great [01419] shout [08643], when they praised [01984] the LORD [03068], because the foundation [03245] of the house [01004] of the LORD [03068] was laid [03245].
¹² But many [07227] of the priests [03548] and Levites [03881] and chief [07218] of the fathers [01], who were ancient men [02205], that had seen [07200] the first [07223] house [01004], when the foundation [03245] of this house [01004] was laid [03245] before their eyes [05869], wept [01058] with a loud [01419] voice [06963]; and many [07227] shouted [08643] aloud [07311] for joy [08057]:
¹³ So that the people [05971] could not discern [05234] the noise [06963] of the shout [08643] of joy [08057] from the noise [06963] of the weeping [01065] of the people [05971]: for the people [05971] shouted [07321] with a loud [01419] shout [08643], and the noise [06963] was heard [08085] afar off [07350].

¹⁹ All this, said David, the LORD [03068] made me understand [07919] in writing [03791] by his hand [03027] upon me, even all the works [04399] of this pattern [08403].