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
- The spiritual church
I Corinthians 3:16; II Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:20-22
- The bodies of saints
I Corinthians 6:19