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CHAPTER 3
Solomon begins to build the temple—He makes the vail and the pillars, and uses much gold and many precious stones. |
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1 THEN Solomon began to
abuild the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount
bMoriaha, where
the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had
prepared in the cthreshingfloor of dOrnan
the Jebusite.
2 And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. |
1a mount Moriah Now Jewih tradition will tell you that this 'mount Moriah' of the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite is the very mount upon which Abraham offered up Issac. But there are a few problems with this concept. True King David did select it for whatever reason, perhaps just because it was the elevated 'hill' of the city region of Jerusalem, yet Jerusalem or Salem had been the populated 'city of Melchizedek and then the city of the Jebusites. It seems unlikely that Abraham took Issac to the hill of the city of Salem/Jerusalem of Melchizedek and further that it was an isolated remote mountain of upon which Abraham offered Issac to be sacrificed. The LDS Bible dictionary under 'Moriah' itself suggest that that mount was in the same district as the 'plain (or oak) of Moreh' in the land of Israel of Ephraim. It is true that Josephus regards the mount of Abraham's sacrifice to be the same as that of the hill on which Solomon built the temple but this seems to be more Jewish skewed subjective 'wanting' for the hill David selected to be that same in tradition than in reality. It make for a good story, but still is not the same hill as the mount of Olives accross from the temple mount where the Savior suffered nor is it the same hill of the cross upon which the Savior died, which is the 'sameness' which fanciful Jewish/Christian tradition seems to subjectively desire. It is possible that this very point was an arguing point between Samaritan and Jewish tradition. The Jews making eveything to come to and be at Jerusalem while the Israel or Ephraim perspective held to the actual site of the sacrifice of Issac. | |
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3 ¶ Now these are the things wherein
Solomon was instructed for the building of the ahouse of
God. The length by cubits after the bfirst measure
was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
4 And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold. 5 And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains. |
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6 And he garnished the house with precious stones
for abeauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls. |
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8 And he made the most aholy
house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house,
twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. 10 And in the most holy house he made two acherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold. |
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11 ¶ And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
12 And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub. 13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward. |
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14 ¶ And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. |
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16 And he made chains, as in the
aoracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars;
and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
17 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaza. |
17a the name of that on the right hand
Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz There are a number of
explanations of the pillars of Solomon's temple, their meanings and symbolic
representations, to which I wish to add mine own. Jachin comes from the
word  (kun 964), meaning established, prepared, fixed,
certain. Jachin is the active form of the word and means 'He Will/Has
Established or He Will/Has Give(n) Certainty. It is a reference to the promise
or everlasting covenant and symbolizes the Covenant Linage of the Messiah.
Boaz is the most obvious, and though it means strength, it does but represent
the Blood Line Linage of the Messiah. Another manner of seeing it is
symbolically representing Messiah ben Joseph or covenant lingage and Messiah
ben David the blood linage (see Messiah ben David
~ Messiah ben Ephraim). It may also be seen in parallel representation
of the temple manorah with the two olive trees upon each side as referenced
in one of the visions of Zechariah (see Zechariah 4). It may also clarify and
associate with 1 Chronicles 5:1-2 where it points out that the birthright of
the covenant was Joseph's and his sons even though the blood line genealogy
has been traditional by the Jewish skew been reckoned from Boaz or Judah.
Further we know and understand that there is only one true Messiah and when
and if the beautiful story of the Book of Ruth relative to the Messiah's true
ancestry is understood, we may see how it is that Jesus comes of the covenant
linage of Ephrath or Ephraim and the blood linage of Judah as Boaz acted as
surogate to raise up seed to the dead house of Elimelech and Mahlon who
were Ephrathites or Ephraimites.
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