Three More Houses

But though the house of the Lord first, and rightly so, was built, there is yet another structure that occupies King Solomon. Though there may not have been the same energy in exercise as when the house of the Lord was in course of construction, yet in due time his own house was completed.
Next in order comes the house of the forest of Lebanon with its porch of judgment, its pillars and its windows denoting, doubtless, government characterized by firmness and clarity-always the features of the throne of God. (See Rev. 4:6, 7.)
Lastly, private affections have their place as well as public government. Pharaoh's daughter whom he had taken to wife, a bride culled from the world (for Egypt is always a type of this world's glory),is not forgotten. A house is erected especially for her, the object of his love.
Durability, and that of the choicest kind, is evidenced in all these structures by costly stones according to the measures of hewed stones sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, stones of ten and eight cubits.