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with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king`s house.
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A Specific Building Plan
The decree specified a particular construction method: three courses of large stones and one of timber. Commentators note this detail, though they debate the exact arrangement—whether it was alternating layers, stories, or wall thickness. This prescribed plan echoes the construction of Solomon's original temple.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The word translated “row” occurs only in this passage. Some regard it as a “course,” and suppose that after every three courses of stone there foll…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
With three rows of great stones Which Jarchi interprets of the walls of it, and these stones of marble; and so Ben M…
When God's time has come for fulfilling His gracious purposes concerning His church, He will raise up instruments to do it, from whom such good ser…
