Armory
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [1]
ar´mẽr -i : (1) ( אוצר , 'ōcar ; θησαυρός , thēsaurós ): A storehouse ( 1 Kings 7:51; Nehemiah 10:38 ), but employed figuratively of the stored-up anger of Yahweh which breaks forth in judgments ( Jeremiah 50:25 ). (2) ( נשׁק , nēsheḳ ): Identical with Solomon's "house of the forest of Lebanon," the arsenal close to the temple ( 1 Kings 10:17; Nehemiah 3:19; Isaiah 22:8 ), in which were stored the shields and targets of beaten gold. (3) ( תּלפיּות , talpı̄yōth ): A puzzling word rendered "armory" in our versions ( Song of Solomon 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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Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
( תִּלְפִּיּוֹה, talpiyoth', destructives, i.e. weapons, Song of Solomon 4:4), the place in which armor was deposited in times of peace. Solomon had a naval arsenal at Ezion-geber (Jeremiah 1:25; 1 Kings 9:26). There is mention made in Nehemiah 3:19, of an armory ( נֵשֶׁק, 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 ( Isaiah 39:2). Dr. Barclay (City of the Great King, p. 155) thinks it was the same as "the house of the forest of Lebanon" ( 2 Kings 10:17; Isaiah 22:8), and locates it at the north- eastern corner of Zion, adjoining the north-western angle of the Xystus. (See Arsenal).
