TEMPLE, THE FIRST
Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Built on Mount Moriah on the threshing-floor of Ornan or Araunah
Surrounded with three stories of chambers communicating with the interior on the right side
Surrounded with spacious courts
Was three score cubits longs, twenty broad, and thirty high
Was lighted by narrow windows
Was roofed with cedar
The floor and walls of, covered with cedar and fir wood
Cedar of, carved with flowers, &c
Ceiled with fir wood and gilt
The whole inside and outside covered with gold
Garnished with precious stones
Its magnificence
Was seven years in building
Was finished in the eighth month of the eleventh year of Solomon
Appointed as a house of sacrifice
Appointed as a house of prayer
God promised to dwell in
All dedicated things placed in
The ark of God brought into with great solemnity
Filled with the cloud of glory
Solemnly dedicated to God by Solomon
Sacred fire sent down from heaven at its dedication
Was but a temple built with hands
Complete destruction of, predicted
DAVID
Anxious to build
Being a man of war not permitted to build
Told by the prophet that Solomon should build
Made preparations for building
Charged Solomon to build
Prayed that Solomon might have wisdom to build
Charged his princes to assist in building
Free will offering of the people for the building
SOLOMON
Determined to build
Specially instructed for
Employed all the strangers in preparing for
Applied to Hiram for a skilful workman to superintend, &c the building of
Employed thirty thousand Israelites in the work
Contracted with Hiram for wood, stone, and labour
Commenced second day of second month of fourth year of Solomon
Built without the noise of hammers, axe, or any tool
DIVIDED INTO
The sanctuary or greater house
The oracle or most holy place
The porch
THE GREATER OR OUTER HOUSE
Was forty cubits long
Had folding doors of fir wood carved and golden
Had door posts of olive wood carved and gilded
THE ORACLE OR MOST HOLY PLACE
Was twenty cubits every way
Two cherubims of gilded olive wood made within
A partition of chains of gold between it and outer house
The doors and the posts of, of olive wood carved and gilded
Separated from the outer house by a vail
THE PORCH OF
Twenty cubits long and ten broad
One hundred and twenty cubits high
Pillars of, with their chapiters described
WAS CALLED
The house of the Lord
The mountain of the Lord's house
House of the God of Jacob
Zion
Mount Zion
HISTORICAL NOTICES OF
Pillaged by Shishak king of Egypt
Repaired by Josiah in the 18th year of his reign
Repaired by Jehoash at the institution of Jehoiada
Treasures of given by Jehoash to propitiate the Syrians
Defiled and its treasures given by Ahaz to the king of Assyria
Purified and divine worship restored under Hezekiah
Its treasures given by Hezekiah to the Assyrians to procure a treaty
Polluted by the idolatrous worship of Manasseh
Purified by Josiah
Pillaged and burned by the Babylonians
ILLUSTRATIVE OF
Christ
The spiritual church
The bodies of saints