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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

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
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