Built on Mount Moriah on the threshing-floor of Ornan or 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 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 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