Bible verses about Temple, The First
(From Torrey's Topical Textbook)

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

 

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