This is what you get when you take a math major and turn him into a devotee of the Lord.
While reading through the "Bible-In-A-Year", as I do starting every January 1st, I came to First Kings and chapters 6-7, which describe the Temple of Solomon in painfully exacting detail. Here's what struck me:
Did you realize that if you took fifteen exact replicas of the Temple of Solomon (1st Kings 6:2), and placed them side by side, they would be the exact same size and dimensions as Noah's Ark (Genesis 6:15)?
Similarly, in 6:23-27, the mathematician in me went bonkers listening to the author spend five sentences describing what he'd essentially covered in one. If it's a 20-cubit room, and each cherub is ten cubits wide...
23In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high. 24Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other. 25The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form. 26The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub. 27He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house. And the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house.
Okay, we get the picture. The cherubs fit perfectly on that wall. Those of us who could add fives had already figured that out!
While reading through the "Bible-In-A-Year", as I do starting every January 1st, I came to First Kings and chapters 6-7, which describe the Temple of Solomon in painfully exacting detail. Here's what struck me:
Did you realize that if you took fifteen exact replicas of the Temple of Solomon (1st Kings 6:2), and placed them side by side, they would be the exact same size and dimensions as Noah's Ark (Genesis 6:15)?
Similarly, in 6:23-27, the mathematician in me went bonkers listening to the author spend five sentences describing what he'd essentially covered in one. If it's a 20-cubit room, and each cherub is ten cubits wide...
23In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high. 24Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other. 25The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form. 26The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub. 27He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house. And the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house.
Okay, we get the picture. The cherubs fit perfectly on that wall. Those of us who could add fives had already figured that out!
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