Temple, the First

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

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