Treasury of Scripture
I have prepared
1 Chronicles 22:3-5,14-16 And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings...
with all
2 Chronicles 31:20,21 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and worked that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God...
Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave...
2 Corinthians 8:3 For to their power, I bear record, yes, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;
Colossians 3:23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men;
1 Peter 4:10,11 As every man has received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God...
the gold
1 Chronicles 28:14-18 He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service...
onyx stones. Avney shoham, which was, probably, not the precious stone or gem called onyx, but a marble called in Greek onychites, which Pliny mentions as a stone Caramania; for one would hardly think that gems of any kind were used externally in such a building as the temple. Antiquity gave both stones this name, because of their resemblance to the nail of the finger.
Genesis 2:12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Exodus 28:17,20 And you shall set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle...
Exodus 39:6,13 And they worked onyx stones enclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel...
Job 28:16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
Isaiah 54:11,12 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors...
Revelation 21:18-21 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like to clear glass...
glistering stones. Avney phuch seems to denote a kind of black marble, so called from its colour resembling stibium: so Vulgate quasi stibinos. marble stones. Avney shayish is rendered in the Targum avney marmoraiyah, `stones of marble,' which was remarkable for its bright white colour. Josephus says that the temple was built of large blocks of white marble, beautifully polished, so as to produce a most splendid appearance.
