Torrey's Topical Index
Temple, The First
Built on Mount Moriah on the threshing-floor of Ornan or Araunah—1Ch
21:28-30; 22:2; 2Ch
3:1
DAVID
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
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