God promised Solomon that He would watch over Israel and listen to the prayers provided in the direction of His Temple. In the event that they continued to comply with Him, He would bless and hold them. In the event that they turned away from Him, He would punish them. But when they repented and sought Him, He would forgive and restore.
It’s the identical for us at the moment. God nonetheless watches over His individuals and hears their prayers. He is aware of our hearts and offers with us in keeping with our methods and our intentions. After we name on Him and search Him wholeheartedly, He hears and solutions our prayers in His goodness.
Solomon Constructed the King’s Quarters – 1 Kings 7:1-12
After Solomon constructed God’s home, he spent one other 13 years constructing his personal home together with a number of different royal buildings: the Home of the Forest of Lebanon, the Corridor of Pillars, the Corridor of Judgment, and an excellent courtyard.
The Home of the Forest of Lebanon was 150 ft lengthy, 75 ft broad, and 45 ft tall. This was the identical top because the Temple however nearly twice as lengthy and two and a half instances as broad. The underside story of this constructing had three rows of 15 cedar pillars that ran the size of the constructing. There have been crossbeams on high of those pillars that ran the width of the constructing. Then, the builders laid cedar planks on the beams to type the ceiling of the underside story and the ground for the second story. Scripture doesn’t say what number of tales there have been, solely that there have been “chambers” above and that the home windows had been organized in three vertical tiers reverse each other. So, we assume there have been three tales and that the home windows lined each lengthy sides of the constructing. The home windows, doorways, and doorposts had been framed with squared, precision-cut cedar. There will need to have been a stairway resulting in the higher chambers, however it isn’t described so we have no idea whether or not it was on the within or the outside of the constructing (just like the one for the Temple). Nearly 300 years after Solomon constructed this construction, Isaiah mentions that weapons had been saved there (Isaiah 22:8), however we have no idea if that was its unique goal.
The Bible doesn’t inform us precisely the place the Corridor of Pillars was positioned, however its dimensions give us some indication. Its size and the width of the Home of the Forest of Lebanon had been each 75 ft, suggesting that the Corridor of Pillars might have stood straight in entrance of it as an entry corridor to the palace advanced. It had a coated porch in entrance, with further pillars and a threshold, establishing a layered, ceremonial entry to the corridor.
Solomon additionally constructed a cedar-paneled room the place he may choose the individuals (1 Kings 3:9; Psalm 72:1–2). The Corridor of the Throne, or Judgement Corridor, might have sat on the opposite aspect of the Corridor of Pillars, making it an entry corridor between each buildings.
Solomon’s private residence was positioned deeper contained in the palace advanced, past the general public halls. It had its personal internal courtyard, which was shared by the separate residence he constructed for his spouse, Pharaoh’s daughter.
All these buildings rested on expensive basis stones that had been twelve and fifteen ft lengthy. Then, the good outer courtyard and the internal residential courtyard had been constructed with three rows of lower stones and a cedar beam on high, identical to the development of the Temple’s internal court docket.
