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• Temple, the First

• 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