Temple, The First
Temple, The First
Built on Mount Moriah on the threshing-floor of Ornan or Araunah - 1Ch 21:28-30; 22:2; 2Ch 3:1
DAVID
- Anxious to build
- 2Sa 7:2; 1Ch 22:7; 29:3; Ps 132:2-5 - Being a man of war not permitted to build
- 2Sa 7:5-9; 1Ki 5:3; 1Ch 22:8 - Told by the prophet that Solomon should build
- 2Sa 7:12,13; 1Ch 17:12 - Made preparations for building
- 1Ch 22:2-5,14-16; 29:2-5 - Charged Solomon to build
- 1Ch 22:6,7,11 - Prayed that Solomon might have wisdom to build
- 1Ch 29:19 - Charged his princes to assist in building
- 1Ch 22:17-19 - Free will offering of the people for the building
- 1Ch 29:6-9
SOLOMON
- Determined to build
- 2Ch 2:1 - Specially instructed for
- 2Ch 3:3 - Employed all the strangers in preparing for
- 2Ch 2:2,17,18; 1Ki 5:15 - Applied to Hiram for a skilful workman to superintend, &c
the building of - 2Ch 2:7,13,14 - Employed thirty thousand Israelites in the work
- 1Ki 5:13,14 - Contracted with Hiram for wood, stone, and labour
- 1Ki 5:6-12; 2Ch 2:8-10 - Commenced second day of second month of fourth year of
Solomon - 1Ki 6:1,37; 2Ch 3:2 - Built without the noise of hammers, axe, or any tool
- 1Ki 6:7
DIVIDED INTO
- The sanctuary or greater house
- 2Ch 3:5 - The oracle or most holy place
- 1Ki 6:19 - The porch
- 2Ch 3:4
Surrounded with three stories of chambers communicating with the interior on the right side - 1Ki 6:5,6,8,10
Surrounded with spacious courts - 1Ki 6:36; 2Ch 4:9
Was three score cubits longs, twenty broad, and thirty high - 1Ki 6:2; 2Ch 3:3
Was lighted by narrow windows - 1Ki 6:4
Was roofed with cedar - 1Ki 6:9
THE GREATER OR OUTER HOUSE
- Was forty cubits long
- 2Ki 6:17 - Had folding doors of fir wood carved and golden
- 1Ki 6:34,35 - Had door posts of olive wood carved and gilded
- 1Ki 6:33; 2Ch 3:7
THE ORACLE OR MOST HOLY PLACE
- Was twenty cubits every way
- 1Ki 6:16,20 - Two cherubims of gilded olive wood made within
- 1Ki 6:23-28; 2Ch 3:11-13 - A partition of chains of gold between it and outer house
- 1Ki 6:21 - The doors and the posts of, of olive wood carved and gilded
- 1Ki 6:31,32 - Separated from the outer house by a vail
- 2Ch 3:14
The floor and walls of, covered with cedar and fir wood - 1Ki 6:15
Cedar of, carved with flowers, &c - 1Ki 6:18
Ceiled with fir wood and gilt - 2Ch 3:5
The whole inside and outside covered with gold - 1Ki 6:21,22; 2Ch 3:7
Garnished with precious stones - 2Ch 3:6
THE PORCH OF
- Twenty cubits long and ten broad
- 1Ki 6:3 - One hundred and twenty cubits high
- 2Ch 3:4 - Pillars of, with their chapiters described
- 1Ki 7:15-22; 2Ch 3:15-17
Its magnificence - 2Ch 2:5,9
Was seven years in building - 1Ki 6:38
Was finished in the eighth month of the eleventh year of Solomon - 1Ki 6:38
WAS CALLED
- The house of the Lord
- 2Ch 23:5,12 - The mountain of the Lord's house
- Isa 2:2 - House of the God of Jacob
- Isa 2:3 - Zion
- Ps 84:1-7 - Mount Zion
- Ps 74:2
Appointed as a house of sacrifice - 2Ch 7:12
Appointed as a house of prayer - Isa 56:7; Mt 21:13
God promised to dwell in - 1Ki 6:12,13
All dedicated things placed in - 2Ch 5:1
The ark of God brought into with great solemnity - 1Ki 8:1-9; 2Ch 5:2-10
Filled with the cloud of glory - 1Ki 8:10,11; 2Ch 5:13; 7:2
Solemnly dedicated to God by Solomon - 1Ki 8:12-66; 2Ch 6:1-42
Sacred fire sent down from heaven at its dedication - 2Ch 7:3
Was but a temple built with hands - Ac 7:47,48
Complete destruction of, predicted - Jer 26:18; Mic 3:12
HISTORICAL NOTICES OF
- Pillaged by Shishak king of Egypt
- 2Ki 21:4-7; 2Ch 33:4,5,7 - Repaired by Josiah in the 18th year of his reign
- 1Ki 14:25,26; 2Ch 12:9 - Repaired by Jehoash at the institution of Jehoiada
- 2Ki 12:4-14; 2Ch 24:4-13 - Treasures of given by Jehoash to propitiate the Syrians
- 2Ki 12:17,18 - Defiled and its treasures given by Ahaz to the king of
Assyria - 2Ki 16:14,18; 2Ch 28:20,21 - Purified and divine worship restored under Hezekiah
- 2Ch 29:3-35 - Its treasures given by Hezekiah to the Assyrians to procure
a treaty - 2Ki 18:13-16 - Polluted by the idolatrous worship of Manasseh
- 2Ki 21:4-7; 2Ch 33:4,5,7 - Repaired by Josiah in the 18th year of his reign
- 2Ki 22:3-7; 2Ch 34:8-13 - Purified by Josiah
- 2Ki 23:4-7,11,12 - Pillaged and burned by the Babylonians
- 2Ki 25:9,13-17; 2Ch 36:18,19
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