Bible verses about Temple, the First
Scripture references about Temple, the First, organized by subject from the classic topical indexes of Orville Nave and R. A. Torrey.
Temple, the First in Torrey's 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