Bible Cross References
A.M. 2293. B.C.1011. Solomon
1 Kings 6:1-14
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Four hundred and eighty years after the people of Israel left Egypt, during the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the second month, the month of Ziv, Solomon began work on the Temple.
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Inside it was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
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The entrance room was 15 feet deep and 30 feet wide, as wide as the sanctuary itself.
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The walls of the Temple had openings in them, narrower on the outside than on the inside.
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Against the outside walls, on the sides and the back of the Temple, a three-storied annex was built, each story 7 1/2 feet high.
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Each room in the lowest story was 7 1/2 feet wide, in the middle story 9 feet wide, and in the top story 10 1/2 feet wide. The Temple wall on each floor was thinner than on the floor below, so that the rooms could rest on the wall without having their beams built into it.
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The stones with which the Temple was built had been prepared at the quarry, so that there was no noise made by hammers, axes, or any other iron tools as the Temple was being built.
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The entrance to the lowest story of the annex was on the south side of the Temple, with stairs leading up to the second and third stories.
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So King Solomon finished building the Temple. He put in a ceiling made of beams and boards of cedar.
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The three-storied annex, each story 7 1/2 feet high, was built against the outside walls of the Temple, and was joined to them by cedar beams.
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The LORD said to Solomon,
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"If you obey all my laws and commands, I will do for you what I promised your father David.
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I will live among my people Israel in this Temple that you are building, and I will never abandon them."
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So Solomon finished building the Temple.
in mount Moriah
Genesis 22:2
"Take your son," God said, "your only son, Isaac, whom you love so much, and go to the land of Moriah. There on a mountain that I will show you, offer him as a sacrifice to me."
Genesis 22:14
Abraham named that place "The LORD Provides." And even today people say, "On the LORD's mountain he provides."
Ornan
2 Samuel 24:18-25
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That same day Gad went to David and said to him, "Go up to Araunah's threshing place and build an altar to the LORD."
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David obeyed the LORD's command and went as Gad had told him to.
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Araunah looked down and saw the king and his officials coming up to him. He threw himself on the ground in front of David
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and asked, "Your Majesty, why are you here?" David answered, "To buy your threshing place and build an altar for the LORD, in order to stop the epidemic."
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"Take it, Your Majesty," Araunah said, "and offer to the LORD whatever you wish. Here are these oxen to burn as an offering on the altar; here are their yokes and the threshing boards to use as fuel."
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Araunah gave it all to the king and said to him, "May the LORD your God accept your offering."
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But the king answered, "No, I will pay you for it. I will not offer to the LORD my God sacrifices that have cost me nothing." And he bought the threshing place and the oxen for fifty pieces of silver.
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Then he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. The LORD answered his prayer, and the epidemic in Israel was stopped.
Araunah
1 Chronicles 21:18
The angel of the LORD told Gad to command David to go and build an altar to the LORD at Araunah's threshing place.
1 Chronicles 22:1
So David said, "This is where the Temple of the LORD God will be. Here is the altar where the people of Israel are to offer burnt offerings."