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