Temple, the First

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 2 Chronicles 2:17 OT

  Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the census with which David his father had counted them; and they found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.

• 2 Chronicles 2:18 OT

  He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to assign the people their work.

• 1 Kings 5:15 OT

  Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;

• 2 Chronicles 2:7 OT

  “Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings, to be with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom…

• 2 Chronicles 2:13 OT

  Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Huram my father’s,

• 2 Chronicles 2:14 OT

  the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, in timber, and in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of…

• 1 Kings 5:13 OT

  King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

• 1 Kings 5:14 OT

  He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; for a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.

• 1 Kings 5:6-12 OT

  Now therefore command that cedar trees be cut for me out of Lebanon. My servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say. For you know that there is nobody among us who knows…

• 2 Chronicles 2:8-10 OT

  “Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. Behold, my servants will be with your servants, even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the…

• 1 Kings 6:1 OT

  In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build Yahweh’s house.

• 1 Kings 6:37 OT

  The foundation of Yahweh’s house was laid in the fourth year, in the month Ziv.

• 2 Chronicles 3:2 OT

  He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

• 1 Kings 6:7 OT

  The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction.

• 2 Chronicles 3:5 OT

  He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.

• 1 Kings 6:19 OT

  He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of Yahweh’s covenant there.

• 2 Chronicles 3:4 OT

  The porch that was in front, its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

• 1 Kings 6:5 OT

  Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around.

• 1 Kings 6:6 OT

  The lowest floor was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not be inserted into the walls of…

• 1 Kings 6:8 OT

  The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third.

• 1 Kings 6:10 OT

  He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

• 1 Kings 6:36 OT

  He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.

• 2 Chronicles 4:9 OT

  Furthermore he made the court of the priests, the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze.

• 1 Kings 6:2 OT

  The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh had a length of sixty cubits, and its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits.