John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 5. And the house which I build is great , etc.] Not so very large, though that, with all apartments and courts belonging to it, he intended to build, was so; but because magnificent in its structure and decorations: for great is our God above all gods ; and therefore ought to have a temple to exceed all others, as the temple at Jerusalem did.
Matthew Henry Commentary
- The building of the temple.
--There is a more particular account of the building of the temple in 1Ki 6. It must be in the place David had prepared, not only which he had purchased, but which he had fixed on by Divine direction. Ful instructions enable us to go about our work with certainty and to proceed therein with comfort. Blessed be God, the Scriptures are enoug to render the man of God thoroughly furnished for every good work. Le us search the Scriptures daily, beseeching the Lord to enable us to understand, believe, and obey his word, that our work and our way ma be made plain, and that all may be begun, continued, and ended in him Beholding God, in Christ, his true Temple, more glorious than that of Solomon's, may we become a spiritual house, a habitation of God throug the Spirit _________________________________________________
Original Hebrew והבית1004 אשׁר834 אני589 בונה1129 גדול1419 כי3588 גדול1419 אלהינו430 מכל3605 האלהים׃430
