Dictionary entry

Temple, The First

R. A. Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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