Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - 1 Kings 5:17 - 5:17

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Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - 1 Kings 5:17 - 5:17


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And the king had large, costly stones broken, “to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stones.” יְקָרֹות does not mean heavy (Thenius), for this would be a perfectly superfluous remark, inasmuch as large stones are always heavy, but costly, valuable stones, qui multa pecunia constabant (Cler.); compare 1Ki 10:2, where the word stands for precious stones. לְיַסֵּד, i.e., to lay the foundation for the temple, by which we are to understand not merely the foundation for the temple-house, but the magnificent substructions for the whole of the temple area, even though the strong walls which surrounded the temple mountain, and which Josephus describes in his Antiquities, viii. 3, 9, and xv. 11, 3, and in his de Bell. Jud. v. 5, 1, may not have been all completed by Solomon, but may have been a work of centuries. For further remarks on this subject, see at 1Ki 6:38. גָזִית אַבְנֵי are squared stones, according to 1Ki 7:10, of ten and eight cubits.