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January 7 - 1 Kings 7 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Tuesday, it's the 7th of
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  January and good on you for tapping on play and inviting me
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  in. I hope you're going well as
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  January gets underway. You might be back to the
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  busyness of life this week, or you might be taking a bit
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  longer, or you might be a student or have something to do
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  with schools. Where are you?
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  Still got a couple or a few more weeks of holidays, but wherever
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  you are, no matter where this finds you, we have got a
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  fascinating chapter to read together today.
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  This is a chapter which really is the fulfilment of a long
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  journey with God and David, because today is the day that
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  Solomon finally finishes building God's temple.
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  This fulfils the desire and the plans of his father, showing
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  this country, this nation of God's, that Solomon is indeed
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  this honourable and faithful king.
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  Of course, the only reason he can do all of this and spend all
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  of this time and resources in building this temple is because
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  he is enjoying this unprecedented time of peace and
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  cooperation with the nations around him.
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  So all of this historical journey has culminated in this
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  time where God's king in Israel builds this incredible temple.
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  So today we're going to hear all about how it's furnished and how
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  it's completed. So let's read it together, shall
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  we? Let us read First Kings Chapter
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  7. Solomon also built a palace for
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  himself. It took him 13 years to complete
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  the construction. One of Solomon's buildings was
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  called the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.
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  It was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
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  There were four rows of cedar pillars, and great cedar beams
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  rested on the pillars. The hall had a cedar roof above
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  the beams. On the pillars were 45 side
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  rooms arranged in three tiers of 15 each.
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  On each end of the long hall were three rows of windows
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  facing each other. All the doorways and door posts
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  had rectangular frames and were arranged in sets of three facing
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  each other. Solomon also built the Hall of
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  Pillars, which was 75 feet long and 45 feet wide.
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  There was a porch in front, along with a canopy supported by
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  pillars. Solomon also built the throne
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  room, known as the Hall of Justice.
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  There he sat to hear legal matters.
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  It was panelled with cedar from floor to ceiling.
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  Solomon's living quarters surrounded a courtyard behind
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  this hall, and they were constructed the same way.
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  He also built similar living quarters for Pharaoh's daughter
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  whom he had married. From foundation to eaves, all
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  these buildings were built from huge blocks of high quality
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  stone cut with saws and trimmed to exact measure on all sides.
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  Some of the huge foundation stones were 15 feet long and
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  some were 12 feet long. The blocks of high quality stone
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  used in the walls were also cut to measure, and cedar beams were
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  also used. The walls of the great courtyard
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  were built so that there was one layer of cedar beams between
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  every three layers of finished stone, just like the walls of
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  the inner courtyard of the Lord's Temple with its entry
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  room. King Solomon then asked for a
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  man named Hurim to come from Tyre.
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  He was half Israelite since his mother was a widow from the
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  tribe of Naftali and his father had been a Craftsman in bronze
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  from Tyre. Hurim was extremely skilful and
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  talented in any work in bronze, and he came to do all the metal
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  work for King Solomon. Hurim cast 2 bronze pillars,
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  each 27 feet tall and 18 feet in circumference.
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  For the tops of the pillars he cast bronze capitals, each 7 1/2
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  feet tall. Each capital was decorated with
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  seven sets of latticework and interwoven chains.
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  He also encircled the latticework with two rows of
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  pomegranates to decorate the capitals over the pillars.
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  The capitals on the columns inside the entry room were
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  shaped like water lilies, and they were 6 feet tall.
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  The capitals on the two pillars had 200 pomegranates in two rows
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  around them. Beside the rounded surface next
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  to the latticework, Hurim set the pillars at the entrance of
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  the temple, one toward the South and one toward the north.
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  He named the one on the South Jackin and the one on the North
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  Boaz. The capitals on the pillars were
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  shaped like water lilies, and so the work on the pillars was
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  finished. Then Hurum cast a great round
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  basin 15 feet across from rim to rim, called the Sea.
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  It was 7 1/2 feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference.
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  It was encircled just below its rim by two rows of decorative
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  gourds. There were about 6 gourds per
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  foot all the way round, and they were cast as part of the basin.
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  The sea was placed on a base of 12 bronze oxen, all facing
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  outward. 3 faced N, 3 faced W, 3 faced South and three faced
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  east, and the sea rested on them.
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  The walls of the sea were about 3 inches thick, and its rim
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  flared out like a cup and resembled a water Lily blossom.
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  It could hold about 11,000 gallons of water.
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  Hurum also made 10 bronze water carts, each 6 feet long, 6 feet
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  wide, and four and a half feet tall.
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  They were constructed with side panels braced with crossbars.
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  Both the panels and the crossbars were decorated with
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  carved lions, oxen, and cherubim.
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  Above and below the lions and oxen were wreath decorations.
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  Each of these carts had four bronze wheels and bronze axles.
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  There were supporting posts for the bronze basin at the corners
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  of the carts. These supports were decorated on
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  each side with carvings of wreaths.
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  The top of each cart had a rounded frame for the basin.
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  It projected 1 1/2 feet above the cart's top like a round
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  pedestal, and its opening was 2 1/4 feet across.
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  It was decorated on the outside with carvings of wreaths.
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  The panels of the carts were square, not round.
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  Under the panels were four wheels that were connected to
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  axles that had been cast as one unit with the cart.
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  The wheels were two and a quarter feet in diameter and
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  were similar to the chariot wheels.
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  The axles, spokes, rims, and hubs were all cast from molten
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  bronze. There were handles at each of
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  the four corners of the carts and these two were cast as one
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  unit with the cart. Around the top of each cart was
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  a rim 9 inches wide. The corner supports and side
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  panels were cast as one unit with the cart.
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  Carvings of cherubim, lions and palm trees decorated the panels
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  and corner supports wherever there was room, and there were
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  wreaths all around. All 10 water carts were the same
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  size and were made alike, for each was cast from the same
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  mould. Hurum also made 10 smaller
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  bronze basins, one for each cart.
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  Each basin was 6 feet across and could hold 220 gallons of water.
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  He set 5 water carts on the South side of the temple and
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  five on the north side. The great bronze basin called
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  the sea was placed near the southeast corner of the temple.
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  He also made the necessary wash basins, shovels and bowls.
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  So at last Hurum completed everything King Solomon had
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  assigned him to make for the Temple of the Lord.
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  The two pillars. The two bowl shaped capitals on
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  top of the pillars. The two networks of interwoven
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  chains that decorated the capitals.
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  The 400 pomegranates that hung from the chains on the capitals.
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  2 rows of pomegranates for each of the chain networks that
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  decorated the capitals on top of the pillars.
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  The 10 water carts holding the 10 basins.
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  The sea and the 12 oxen under it.
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  The ash buckets, the shovels, and the balls Hurim made all
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  these things of burnished bronze for the Temple of the Lord, just
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  as King Solomon had directed. The king had them cast in clay
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  moulds in the Jordan Valley between Sucketh and Zarathan.
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  Solomon did not weigh all these things because there were so
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  many. The weight of the bronze could
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  not be measured. Solomon also made all the
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  furnishings of the Temple of the Lord.
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  The gold altar, the gold table for the bread of the presents.
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  The lamp stands of solid gold, five in the South and five in
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  the north in front of the Most Holy Place.
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  The flower decorations, lamps, and tongs, all of gold.
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  The small bowls, lamp snuffers, bowls, ladles, and incense
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  burners, all of solid gold. The doors for the entrance to
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  the Most Holy Place and the main room of the temple with their
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  fronts overlaid with gold. So King Solomon finished all his
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  work on the temple of the Lord. Then he brought all the gifts
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  His father David had dedicated, the silver, the gold and the
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  various articles, and he stored them in the treasuries of the
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  Lord's temple. Our Lord, as we hear of all of
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  this work being completed just as you had required it to be, so
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  we're so aware that it was a generation beforehand that the
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  King really wanted this to happen, but in your timing, it
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  was best to wait. Our Lord, we know in our lives
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  we just see all the things that we are sure would be so good for
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  your Kingdom and for our lives and we hear your voice saying
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  not now wait. Our Lord, give us confidence in
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  your knowledge being so much greater than ours so that we can
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  be content to follow your promptings and sometimes to wait
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  even though our human wisdom says do it now.
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  Lord, we submit to You and your plans far greater than ours,
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  because you and Your glory outstrip anything that human
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  hands could ever craft or conceive of themselves.
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  So we just worship you, the same God who has worshipped in that
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  temple all those generations ago.
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  We lift up our hands to you and we praise You, mighty God,
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  everlasting Saviour. And we pray all of this through
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  that saving name of Jesus, Amen.