Holy Scripture

1 Kings 7:49

A church father on this verse
“For just as the tables are rightly used as a type of holy Scripture because they both minister righteousness to those hungering for the bread of the word and bear the vessels of the heavenly ministry, that is, they propose for our imitation the actions of the righteous, so also by these lampstands the words of God are…”
Bede, 8th c. — Of the Temple of Solomon 2.24.1

Source: Septuagint

Original

49There were three rows of hewn stones round about the great hall, and a row of sculptured cedar:

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47founded with large costly stones, stones of ten cubits and eight cubits long.

48And above with costly stones, according to the measure of hewn stones, and with cedars.

— 1 Kings 7:49 —

50and Solomon finished all his house.

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