Temple, the First

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• 1 Kings 6:4 OT

  He made windows of fixed lattice work for the house.

• 1 Kings 6:9 OT

  So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

• 2 Kings 6:17 OT

  Elisha prayed, and said, “Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see.” Yahweh opened the young man’s eyes; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.

• 1 Kings 6:34 OT

  and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

• 1 Kings 6:35 OT

  He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.

• 1 Kings 6:33 OT

  He also did so for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part of the wall;

• 2 Chronicles 3:7 OT

  He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.

• 1 Kings 6:16 OT

  He built twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built them for it within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.

• 1 Kings 6:20 OT

  Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he covered the altar with cedar.

• 1 Kings 6:23-28 OT

  In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high. Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub. From the tip of one wing to the tip of the other was ten cubits. The…

• 2 Chronicles 3:11-13 OT

  The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. The wing of the other cherub was five…

• 1 Kings 6:21 OT

  So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold. He drew chains of gold across before the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.

• 1 Kings 6:31 OT

  For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood. The lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall.

• 1 Kings 6:32 OT

  So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold. He spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.

• 2 Chronicles 3:14 OT

  He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim.

• 1 Kings 6:15 OT

  He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with cypress boards.

• 1 Kings 6:18 OT

  There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.

• 1 Kings 6:22 OT

  He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. He also overlaid the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary with gold.

• 2 Chronicles 3:6 OT

  He decorated the house with precious stones for beauty. The gold was gold from Parvaim.

• 1 Kings 6:3 OT

  The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits, which was along the width of the house. Ten cubits was its width in front of the house.

• 1 Kings 7:15-22 OT

  For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them. He made two capitals of molten bronze, to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five…

• 2 Chronicles 3:15-17 OT

  Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits height, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. He made chains in the inner sanctuary, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one…

• 2 Chronicles 2:5 OT

  “The house which I am building will be great; for our God is greater than all gods.

• 2 Chronicles 2:9 OT

  even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.