The interpretation timeline

1Kgs 7:2

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

1Kgs 7:2 · Douay-Rheims
“He built also the house of the forest of Libanus, the length of it was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits, and the height thirty cubits: and four galleries between pillars of cedar: for he had cut cedar trees into pillars.”
Medieval c. 750 – 1100
850
A.D.
Ishodad of Merv Medieval
d. A.D. 850
“"The House of the Forest of the Lebanon" does not mean that this house was built in a forest or in Lebanon, as is sometimes asserted, but that [Solomon] built a huge house where weapons were gathered in large quantity, just as the Forest of Lebanon [abounds] in trees.”
Modern · 1953 →

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