A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Gill, John, 1697-1771 • SECTION 99

1 Kings 6:11

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1 Kings 6:11

Ver. 11. And the word of the Lord came to Solomon,.... The word of prophecy, as the Targum, foretelling what would be the case of this building, according to the obedience or disobedience of him and the people of Israel; which was brought to him either by an impulse of the Spirit of God upon him; or by the hand of a prophet, as Kimchi thinks; and some of the Jewish writers {y}, as he particularly, name Ahijah the Shilonite as the prophet that was sent with this message to him:

saying, as follows.

{y} Seder Olam Rabba, c. 20. p. 53.

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