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1 Kings 5:3

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.

1 Kings 5:3 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 1 Kings 5:3

Theological / Devotional

An house. After having given a general description of Solomon’s government, the record proceeds with an account of the great undertaking of his reign, the building of the Temple. A parallel account of this important enterprise is found in 2 Chron. 2 to 4.

For the wars. It was not that David was so occupied with wars during his reign that he did not find time or opportunity to build the Temple, but that the Lord did not permit him to do this because of his having been so much a man of war (1 Chron. 22:8).

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