Armory
Armory
(, talpiyoth’, destructives, i.e. weapons, Son 4:4), the place in which armor was deposited in times of peace. Solomon had a naval arsenal at Ezion-geber (Jeremiah 1:25; 1Ki 9:26). There is mention made in Neh 3:19, of an armory (, ne’shek, elsewhere armor) in Jerusalem, “at the turning of the wall,” meaning probably the bend in the brow of Zion opposite the south-western corner of the Temple, near where the bridge connected them, although Josephus (Ant. 9:7, 2) speaks of the armory as being in the temple itself. This was probably the arsenal (“house of armor”) which Hezekiah took so much pride in showing to the Babylonian ambassadors (Isa 39:2). Dr. Barclay (City of the Great King, p. 155) thinks it was the same as “the house of the forest of Lebanon” (2Ki 10:17; Isa 22:8), and locates it at the north- eastern corner of Zion, adjoining the north-western angle of the Xystus. SEE ARSENAL.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Armory
armer-i: (1) (, ‘ocar; , thesauros): A storehouse (1Ki 7:51; Neh 10:38), but employed figuratively of the stored-up anger of Yahweh which breaks forth in judgments (Jer 50:25). (2) (, neshek): Identical with Solomon’s house of the forest of Lebanon, the arsenal close to the temple (1Ki 10:17; Neh 3:19; Isa 22:8), in which were stored the shields and targets of beaten gold. (3) (, talpyoth): A puzzling word rendered armory in our versions (Son 4:4) – the tower of David builded for an armory, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. the Revised Version margin renders builded with turrets.
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Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Armory
A place for the storage of armor
Neh 3:19; Son 4:4; Isa 22:8; Isa 39:2
In different parts of the kingdom
1Ki 10:17; 2Ch 11:12 Jerusalem
Figurative
Jer 50:25