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Haftara for Par’shah Terumah, 1 Kings 5:26-6:13 (5:12-6:13 i
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Haftara for Par’shah Terumah, 1 Kings 5:26-6:13 (5:12-6:13 in Christian Bibles)
1 Kings 5:12 (ESV) And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
King Hiram of Tyre bore the Phoenician title “King of the Sidonians.” Perhaps it was prophetic that this project was such a huge joint effort of both Jew and Gentile. The wisdom of Solomon showed through here in his overseeing a project of such magnitude and securing the cooperation of two vastly different peoples.
Ephesians 2:21-22 (ESV) in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by [in] the Spirit.
Building of the Temple started in Siv (meaning “splendor,” when nature’s beauty unfolds), the second month of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign.
1 Kings 6:1 (ESV) In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.
The sound of neither axe, hammer nor chisel was heard on the Temple mount dureing the time the Temple was being constructed. Several midrashim state in effect that while iron is created to shorten the days of man, the altar was created to lengthen them. therefore it is not right that what shortens man’s life should be lifted on what lengthens it.
1 Kings 6:7 (ESV) When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.
Massive timbers were cut and dressed, then transported to the sea; then to Joppa and on to Jerusalem.
1 Kings 5:9 (ESV) My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon, and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct. And I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it. And you shall meet my wishes by providing food for my household.”
Likewise the stones were cut on site and transported to the building site. Some of these can still be seen in the foundation of the ancient Temple walls. The largest remaining stone is over 30 X 7 ½ feet and weighs over 100 tons.
1 Kings 5:17 (KJV) And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
Almost all contemporary translations follow the King James lead and say “costly stones.” However “splendid” might be a better translation. Either way, this was a massive effort, requiring a large workforce.
1 Kings 5:13-16 (ESV) King Solomon drafted forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men. And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the draft. Solomon also had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country, besides Solomon's 3,300 chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
This was in addition to probably as many again this number of hired laborers. Estimates put the total work force at well in excess of 180,000 men. However this is not excessive when we compare it to the over 300,000 men employed for over 20 years to build one pyramid (Pliny, Hist. Nat. 36.12).
The Temple, as would the Second and later Third Temples do and as the Tabernacle had before, faced East. The reason can be seen in prophecies, among them:
Ezekiel 43:1-7 (ESV) Then he led me to the gate, the gate facing east. And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with his glory. And the vision I saw was just like the vision that I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and just like the vision that I had seen by the Chebar canal. And I fell on my face. As the glory of the Lord entered the temple by the gate facing east, the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the temple. While the man was standing beside me, I heard one speaking to me out of the temple, and he said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies [or “monuments”] of their kings at their high places, [or “at their deaths”]
Matthew 24:27 (ESV) For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Plans had been given to Melech Dovid by Hashem, and he had passed them on to Shlomo:
1 Chronicles 28:11-12 (ESV) Then David gave Solomon his son the plan of the vestibule of the temple, and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, and its inner chambers, and of the room for the mercy seat;
So anyone entering would approach from the West, while the Ark where Adonai would “sit” faced East. The width of the three main sections was 20 cubits, or about thirty feet. The portico (vestibule, porch) was 10 cubits deep, the hall (nave, sanctuary) forty cubits, and the inner sanctuary (Holy of Holies) was twenty cubits. Height of the sanctuary is thirty cubits (45 ft). 1 Kings doesn’t give the height of the porch, however it is given in 2 Chron 3:4 as 120 cubits. This though would appear to be a copyists error as this would put it at @ 180 ft. 1 Kings 6:20 gives the dimensions of the Holy of Holies as squared at 20X20X20 cubits. That would leave an empty space, or room of about 10 cubits high above the Holy space. It should be noted these are interior measurements only. These dimensions were twice those of the Tabernacle.
The roof was flat. And the sides and West end were buttressed by graduated structures which when overlaid by flooring and roof made up three stories of lean-to style store rooms. Again, contemporary translations tend to follow the error in the King James:
1 Kings 6:10 (KJV) And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
This should read “each story five cubits high,” giving us a total of about 15 to 18 cubits when figuring in the thicknesses of flooring and roof. Windows for the sanctuary would have been above the level of these rooms. This would have been a massive and most impressive structure. While not part of this haftarah, it is interesting to note the two pillars set inside the porch:
Melachim Alef 7:21 (OJB) And he set up the ammudim in the Ulam HaHeikhal; and he set up the right ammud, and called shmo thereof Yachin (Establish) [or “He supports]: and he set up the left ammud, and called shmo thereof Boaz (Strength is in it) [or “in Him is strength].
These massive pillars would have given focus for anyone entering onto the One upon Whom both the sanctuary and the people of Israel must rest for support. This was the place where YHVH Elohe Yisra’el dwelled with His people. Large pagan temples are sources of national pride. But it is upon El Elyon which our pride rests.
Deuteronomy 33:26 (ESV) “There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty.
2 Corinthians 10:13 (ESV) But we will not boast beyond limits, but will boast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us, to reach even to you.
We think of a temple as a place dedicated to the worship of a god, gods, or The One True God. However the term can have more than one meaning.
H1964 היכל hêykâl hay-kawl' Probably from H3201 (in the sense of capacity); a large public building, such as a palace or temple: - palace, temple.
Interestingly Solomon’s palace was a larger floor plan copy of the Temple. Also interesting to note that while it is easy to figure out whether hekal refered to a palace or the Temple by context, translators have much more trouble with the word when speaking of the heavenly Temple/Throne. Scholars have heated debates over whether the term is used for one or the other in the heavenlies. Personally, since heaven is like nothing we can know, I think both are at once appropriate and meaningful.
The more commonly used term in this haftarah seems to be the “House of The LORD.”
H1004 בּית bayith bah'-yith Probably from H1129 abbreviated; a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.): - court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings. home[born], [winter]house (-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within (-out).
H3068 יהוה yehôvâh yeh-ho-vaw' From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God: - Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050, H3069.
This captures the essence of both meanings of the word Temple, and seems to equate the one in Jerusalem with the one in the heavens. It is also where the Christian term for a church, “a House of God” comes from. I’d prefer this term was reserved for the Temple, however as a term of respect and dedication I see nothing wrong with it. I worship in a synagogue anyhow. Is it a House of God? I suppose; but synagogue works so well why confuse the issue? The B’rith Chadasha does tend to use the term much more liberally. In pagan Greek the term is “hieron,” denoting a sacred place. It commonly denotes pagan temples as much as the Holy Temple. It is used metaphorically as the body of Yeshua (John 2:19,21); the body of a believer (1 Cor 3:16-17), and of a local congregation (2 Cor 6:16). So such use appears to be correct.
Dan C
Sources: JPS Study TNK, Vines, Strong’s, Wiersby, Unger, Meyer, Edersheim, my father and others.
1 Kings 5:12 (ESV) And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
King Hiram of Tyre bore the Phoenician title “King of the Sidonians.” Perhaps it was prophetic that this project was such a huge joint effort of both Jew and Gentile. The wisdom of Solomon showed through here in his overseeing a project of such magnitude and securing the cooperation of two vastly different peoples.
Ephesians 2:21-22 (ESV) in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by [in] the Spirit.
Building of the Temple started in Siv (meaning “splendor,” when nature’s beauty unfolds), the second month of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign.
1 Kings 6:1 (ESV) In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.
The sound of neither axe, hammer nor chisel was heard on the Temple mount dureing the time the Temple was being constructed. Several midrashim state in effect that while iron is created to shorten the days of man, the altar was created to lengthen them. therefore it is not right that what shortens man’s life should be lifted on what lengthens it.
1 Kings 6:7 (ESV) When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.
Massive timbers were cut and dressed, then transported to the sea; then to Joppa and on to Jerusalem.
1 Kings 5:9 (ESV) My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon, and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct. And I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it. And you shall meet my wishes by providing food for my household.”
Likewise the stones were cut on site and transported to the building site. Some of these can still be seen in the foundation of the ancient Temple walls. The largest remaining stone is over 30 X 7 ½ feet and weighs over 100 tons.
1 Kings 5:17 (KJV) And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
Almost all contemporary translations follow the King James lead and say “costly stones.” However “splendid” might be a better translation. Either way, this was a massive effort, requiring a large workforce.
1 Kings 5:13-16 (ESV) King Solomon drafted forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men. And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the draft. Solomon also had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country, besides Solomon's 3,300 chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
This was in addition to probably as many again this number of hired laborers. Estimates put the total work force at well in excess of 180,000 men. However this is not excessive when we compare it to the over 300,000 men employed for over 20 years to build one pyramid (Pliny, Hist. Nat. 36.12).
The Temple, as would the Second and later Third Temples do and as the Tabernacle had before, faced East. The reason can be seen in prophecies, among them:
Ezekiel 43:1-7 (ESV) Then he led me to the gate, the gate facing east. And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with his glory. And the vision I saw was just like the vision that I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and just like the vision that I had seen by the Chebar canal. And I fell on my face. As the glory of the Lord entered the temple by the gate facing east, the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the temple. While the man was standing beside me, I heard one speaking to me out of the temple, and he said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies [or “monuments”] of their kings at their high places, [or “at their deaths”]
Matthew 24:27 (ESV) For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Plans had been given to Melech Dovid by Hashem, and he had passed them on to Shlomo:
1 Chronicles 28:11-12 (ESV) Then David gave Solomon his son the plan of the vestibule of the temple, and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, and its inner chambers, and of the room for the mercy seat;
So anyone entering would approach from the West, while the Ark where Adonai would “sit” faced East. The width of the three main sections was 20 cubits, or about thirty feet. The portico (vestibule, porch) was 10 cubits deep, the hall (nave, sanctuary) forty cubits, and the inner sanctuary (Holy of Holies) was twenty cubits. Height of the sanctuary is thirty cubits (45 ft). 1 Kings doesn’t give the height of the porch, however it is given in 2 Chron 3:4 as 120 cubits. This though would appear to be a copyists error as this would put it at @ 180 ft. 1 Kings 6:20 gives the dimensions of the Holy of Holies as squared at 20X20X20 cubits. That would leave an empty space, or room of about 10 cubits high above the Holy space. It should be noted these are interior measurements only. These dimensions were twice those of the Tabernacle.
The roof was flat. And the sides and West end were buttressed by graduated structures which when overlaid by flooring and roof made up three stories of lean-to style store rooms. Again, contemporary translations tend to follow the error in the King James:
1 Kings 6:10 (KJV) And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
This should read “each story five cubits high,” giving us a total of about 15 to 18 cubits when figuring in the thicknesses of flooring and roof. Windows for the sanctuary would have been above the level of these rooms. This would have been a massive and most impressive structure. While not part of this haftarah, it is interesting to note the two pillars set inside the porch:
Melachim Alef 7:21 (OJB) And he set up the ammudim in the Ulam HaHeikhal; and he set up the right ammud, and called shmo thereof Yachin (Establish) [or “He supports]: and he set up the left ammud, and called shmo thereof Boaz (Strength is in it) [or “in Him is strength].
These massive pillars would have given focus for anyone entering onto the One upon Whom both the sanctuary and the people of Israel must rest for support. This was the place where YHVH Elohe Yisra’el dwelled with His people. Large pagan temples are sources of national pride. But it is upon El Elyon which our pride rests.
Deuteronomy 33:26 (ESV) “There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty.
2 Corinthians 10:13 (ESV) But we will not boast beyond limits, but will boast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us, to reach even to you.
We think of a temple as a place dedicated to the worship of a god, gods, or The One True God. However the term can have more than one meaning.
H1964 היכל hêykâl hay-kawl' Probably from H3201 (in the sense of capacity); a large public building, such as a palace or temple: - palace, temple.
Interestingly Solomon’s palace was a larger floor plan copy of the Temple. Also interesting to note that while it is easy to figure out whether hekal refered to a palace or the Temple by context, translators have much more trouble with the word when speaking of the heavenly Temple/Throne. Scholars have heated debates over whether the term is used for one or the other in the heavenlies. Personally, since heaven is like nothing we can know, I think both are at once appropriate and meaningful.
The more commonly used term in this haftarah seems to be the “House of The LORD.”
H1004 בּית bayith bah'-yith Probably from H1129 abbreviated; a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.): - court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings. home[born], [winter]house (-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within (-out).
H3068 יהוה yehôvâh yeh-ho-vaw' From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God: - Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050, H3069.
This captures the essence of both meanings of the word Temple, and seems to equate the one in Jerusalem with the one in the heavens. It is also where the Christian term for a church, “a House of God” comes from. I’d prefer this term was reserved for the Temple, however as a term of respect and dedication I see nothing wrong with it. I worship in a synagogue anyhow. Is it a House of God? I suppose; but synagogue works so well why confuse the issue? The B’rith Chadasha does tend to use the term much more liberally. In pagan Greek the term is “hieron,” denoting a sacred place. It commonly denotes pagan temples as much as the Holy Temple. It is used metaphorically as the body of Yeshua (John 2:19,21); the body of a believer (1 Cor 3:16-17), and of a local congregation (2 Cor 6:16). So such use appears to be correct.
Dan C
Sources: JPS Study TNK, Vines, Strong’s, Wiersby, Unger, Meyer, Edersheim, my father and others.
