- 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
- ILLUSTRATIVE OF
- Christ Joh 2:19,21
- The spiritual church 1Co 3:16; 2Co 6:16; Eph 2:20-22
- The bodies of saints 1Co 6:19
The New Topical Text Book
Temple, the First
The New Topical Text Book, R. A. Torrey (1897). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.