1 Chronicles 28:11

David handed Solomon the detailed plans for the temple's porch, rooms, treasuries, and the place of the mercy seat. It shows the careful, divinely guided blueprint for God's house.

Cross-references · 26

• 1 Chr 28:19“All this,” said David, “all the details of this plan, the LORD has made clear to me in writing by His hand upon me.”
• 1 Kgs 6:3The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple.
• Exod 25:40See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
• Exod 25:17–22And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
• Heb 8:5The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
• 1 Kgs 6:5–6Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
• 1 Kgs 6:10He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
• 1 Chr 9:26–29But the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the rooms and the treasuries of the house of God.
• 1 Chr 26:20–27Now their fellow Levites were in charge of the treasuries of the house of God and the treasuries of the dedicated things.
• Exod 40:20–21Moses took the Testimony and placed it in the ark, attaching the poles to the ark; and he set the mercy seat atop the ark.
• 2 Chr 3:3–10The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.
• Neh 13:5and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.
• Neh 10:38–39A priest of Aaron’s line is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of these tithes to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.
• Ezek 41:6–11The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.
• Ezek 40:8–9Then he measured the portico of the gateway inside;
• Ezek 43:10–11As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the people of Israel, so that they may be ashamed of their iniquities. Let them measure the plan,
• Ezek 41:13–17Then he measured the temple to be a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.
• Ezek 40:15And the distance from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its inner portico was fifty cubits.
• Ezek 40:48–49Then he brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the side pillars of the portico to be five cubits on each side. The width of the gateway was fourteen cubits and its sidewalls were three cubits on either side.
• Luke 21:1Then Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,
• Heb 9:2–8A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room were the lampstand, the table, and the consecrated bread. This was called the Holy Place.
• 2 Chr 5:7Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
• Exod 26:30So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
• Exod 39:42–43The Israelites had done all the work just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
• Jer 35:2“Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them to one of the chambers of the house of the LORD to offer them a drink of wine.”
• 1 Kgs 6:16–20He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

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