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• Genesis 22:2

  He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”

• Genesis 22:4

  On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.

• 2 Samuel 7:2

  the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”

• 2 Samuel 7:3

  Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with you.”

• 2 Samuel 7:4

  That same night, Yahweh’s word came to Nathan, saying,

• 2 Samuel 7:5

  “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?

• 2 Samuel 7:6

  For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought the children of Israel up out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle.

• 2 Samuel 7:7

  In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’

• 2 Samuel 7:8

  Now therefore tell my servant David this, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.

• 2 Samuel 7:9

  I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

• 2 Samuel 7:10

  I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not afflict them any more, as at the first,

• 2 Samuel 7:11

  and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.

• 2 Samuel 7:12

  When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

• 2 Samuel 7:13

  He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

• 2 Samuel 28:14
• 2 Samuel 28:15
• 2 Samuel 28:16
• 2 Samuel 28:17
• 2 Samuel 28:18
• 2 Samuel 29:1
• 2 Samuel 29:2
• 2 Samuel 29:3
• 2 Samuel 29:4
• 2 Samuel 29:5
• 1 Kings 5:3

  “You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until Yahweh put his enemies under the soles of his feet.

• 1 Kings 5:8

  Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning cypress timber.

• 1 Kings 5:9

  My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you specify to me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you will receive them. You will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.”

• 1 Kings 5:10

  So Hiram gave Solomon cedar timber and cypress timber according to all his desire.

• 1 Kings 5:11

  Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.

• 1 Kings 5:12

  Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together.

• 1 Kings 5:13

  King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

• 1 Kings 5:14

  He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; for a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.

• 1 Kings 5:15

  Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;

• 1 Kings 5:16

  besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.

• 1 Kings 5:17

  The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

• 1 Kings 5:18

  Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

• 1 Kings 6:1

  In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build Yahweh’s house.

• 1 Kings 6:3

  The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits, which was along the width of the house. Ten cubits was its width in front of the house.

• 1 Kings 6:5

  Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around.

• 1 Kings 6:6

  The lowest floor was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.

• 1 Kings 6:7

  The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction.

• 1 Kings 6:8

  The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third.

• 1 Kings 6:9

  So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

• 1 Kings 6:10

  He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

• 1 Kings 6:15

  He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with cypress boards.

• 1 Kings 6:16

  He built twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built them for it within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.

• 1 Kings 6:17

  In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits.

• 1 Kings 6:18

  There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.

• 1 Kings 6:19

  He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of Yahweh’s covenant there.

• 1 Kings 6:20

  Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he covered the altar with cedar.

• 1 Kings 6:21

  So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold. He drew chains of gold across before the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.

• 1 Kings 6:22

  He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. He also overlaid the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary with gold.

• 1 Kings 6:23

  In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

• 1 Kings 6:24

  Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub. From the tip of one wing to the tip of the other was ten cubits.

• 1 Kings 6:25

  The other cherub was ten cubits. Both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.

• 1 Kings 6:26

  One cherub was ten cubits high, and so was the other cherub.

• 1 Kings 6:27

  He set the cherubim within the inner house. The wings of the cherubim were stretched out, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the middle of the house.

• 1 Kings 6:28

  He overlaid the cherubim with gold.

• 1 Kings 6:29

  He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, inside and outside.

• 1 Kings 6:30

  He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inside and outside.

• 1 Kings 6:31

  For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood. The lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall.

• 1 Kings 6:32

  So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold. He spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.

• 1 Kings 6:33

  He also did so for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part of the wall;

• 1 Kings 6:34

  and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

• 1 Kings 6:35

  He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.

• 1 Kings 6:36

  He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.

• 1 Kings 6:37

  The foundation of Yahweh’s house was laid in the fourth year, in the month Ziv.

• 1 Kings 6:38

  In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its specifications. So he spent seven years building it.

• 1 Kings 7:12

  The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.

• 1 Kings 7:13

  King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre.

• 1 Kings 7:14

  He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.

• 1 Kings 7:15

  For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them.

• 1 Kings 7:16

  He made two capitals of molten brass, to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.

• 1 Kings 7:17

  There were nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.

• 1 Kings 7:18

  So he made the pillars; and there were two rows around on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars: and he did so for the other capital.

• 1 Kings 7:19

  The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits.

• 1 Kings 7:20

  There were capitals above also on the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network. There were two hundred pomegranates in rows around the other capital.

• 1 Kings 7:21

  He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple. He set up the right pillar, and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz.

• 1 Kings 7:22

  On the top of the pillars was lily work: so the work of the pillars was finished.

• 1 Kings 7:23

  He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in shape. Its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it.

• 1 Kings 7:24

  Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast.

• 1 Kings 7:25

  It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward.

• 1 Kings 7:26

  It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.

• 1 Kings 7:27

  He made the ten bases of brass. The length of one base was four cubits, four cubits its width, and three cubits its height.

• 1 Kings 7:28

  The work of the bases was like this: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges;

• 1 Kings 7:29

  and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.

• 1 Kings 7:30

  Every base had four bronze wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet of it had supports. The supports were cast beneath the basin, with wreaths at the side of each.

• 1 Kings 7:31

  Its mouth within the capital and above was a cubit. Its mouth was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its mouth were engravings, and their panels were square, not round.

• 1 Kings 7:32

  The four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles of the wheels were in the base. The height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.

• 1 Kings 7:33

  The work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel. Their axles, and their rims, and their spokes, and their naves, were all of cast metal.

• 1 Kings 7:34

  There were four supports at the four corners of each base. Its supports were of the base itself.

• 1 Kings 7:35

  In the top of the base there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the base its supports and its panels were of the same.

• 1 Kings 7:36

  On the plates of its supports, and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, each in its space, with wreaths all around.

• 1 Kings 7:37

  He made the ten bases in this way: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.

• 1 Kings 7:38

  He made ten basins of brass. One basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on every one of the ten bases one basin.

• 1 Kings 7:39

  He set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house. He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward and toward the south.

• 1 Kings 7:40

  Hiram made the basins, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in Yahweh’s house:

• 1 Kings 7:41

  the two pillars; the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;

• 1 Kings 7:42

  the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;

• 1 Kings 7:43

  the ten bases; the ten basins on the bases;

• 1 Kings 7:44

  the one sea; the twelve oxen under the sea;

• 1 Kings 7:45

  the pots; the shovels; and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in Yahweh’s house, were of burnished brass.

• 1 Kings 7:46

  The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

• 1 Kings 7:47

  Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them. The weight of the brass could not be determined.

• 1 Kings 7:48

  Solomon made all the vessels that were in Yahweh’s house: the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on, of gold;

• 1 Kings 7:49

  and the lamp stands, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;

• 1 Kings 7:50

  the cups, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, of the temple, of gold.

• 1 Kings 7:51

  Thus all the work that king Solomon did in Yahweh’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of Yahweh’s house.

• 1 Kings 8:6

  The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings.

• 1 Kings 8:8

  The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside. They are there to this day.

• 1 Kings 8:10

  It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled Yahweh’s house,

• 1 Kings 8:11

  so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.

• 1 Kings 8:13

  I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.”

• 1 Kings 8:21

  There I have set a place for the ark, in which is Yahweh’s covenant, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

• 1 Kings 8:38

  whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,

• 1 Kings 9:3

  Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

• 1 Kings 14:25

  In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,

• 1 Kings 14:26

  and he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.

• 2 Kings 11:2

  But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedroom; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

• 2 Kings 11:3

  He was with her hidden in Yahweh’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

• 2 Kings 11:10

  The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David’s, which were in Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 11:14

  and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, “Treason! Treason!”

• 2 Kings 11:15

  Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in Yahweh’s house.”

• 2 Kings 12:4

  Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into Yahweh’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into Yahweh’s house,

• 2 Kings 12:5

  let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.”

• 2 Kings 12:6

  But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.

• 2 Kings 12:7

  Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why don’t you repair the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”

• 2 Kings 12:8

  The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.

• 2 Kings 12:9

  But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it.

• 2 Kings 12:10

  When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 12:11

  They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on Yahweh’s house,

• 2 Kings 12:12

  and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to Yahweh’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

• 2 Kings 12:13

  But there were not made for Yahweh’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house;

• 2 Kings 12:14

  for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired Yahweh’s house with it.

• 2 Kings 14:14

  He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in Yahweh’s house and in the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

• 2 Kings 15:35

  However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 16:18

  He removed the covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry outside to Yahweh’s house, because of the king of Assyria.

• 2 Kings 19:14

  Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.

• 2 Kings 19:15

  Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sit above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

• 2 Kings 21:7

  He set the engraved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which Yahweh said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever;

• 2 Kings 22:3

  In the eighteenth year of king Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to Yahweh’s house, saying,

• 2 Kings 22:4

  “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money which is brought into Yahweh’s house, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people.

• 2 Kings 22:5

  Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and let them give it to the workmen who are in Yahweh’s house, to repair the damage to the house,

• 2 Kings 22:6

  to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.

• 2 Kings 23:3

  The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people agreed to the covenant.

• 2 Kings 25:17

  The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was on it. The height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of brass; and the second pillar with its network was like these.

• 1 Chronicles 15:16

  David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.

• 1 Chronicles 21:28

  At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.

• 1 Chronicles 21:29

  For Yahweh’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.

• 1 Chronicles 21:30

  But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.

• 1 Chronicles 22:1

  Then David said, “This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”

• 1 Chronicles 22:7

  David said to Solomon his son, “As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.

• 1 Chronicles 22:8

  But Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ‘You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.

• 1 Chronicles 23:24

  These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even the heads of the fathers’ houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of Yahweh’s house, from twenty years old and upward.

• 1 Chronicles 28:2

  Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, “Hear me, my brothers, and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building.

• 1 Chronicles 28:3

  But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of war, and have shed blood.’

• 1 Chronicles 28:11

  Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms, for the place of the mercy seat;

• 1 Chronicles 28:12

  and the plans of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of Yahweh’s house, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of God’s house, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things;

• 1 Chronicles 28:13

  also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the work of the service of Yahweh’s house, and for all the vessels of service in Yahweh’s house;

• 1 Chronicles 28:14

  of gold by weight for the gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;

• 1 Chronicles 28:15

  by weight also for the lamp stands of gold, and for its lamps, of gold, by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps; and for the lamp stands of silver, by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps, according to the use of every lamp stand;

• 1 Chronicles 28:16

  and the gold by weight for the tables of show bread, for every table; and silver for the tables of silver;

• 1 Chronicles 28:17

  and the forks, the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl;

• 1 Chronicles 28:18

  and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the plans for the chariot, and the cherubim that spread out and cover the ark of Yahweh’s covenant.

• 1 Chronicles 28:19

  “All this”, said David, “I have been made to understand in writing from Yahweh’s hand, even all the works of this pattern.”

• 1 Chronicles 29:1

  David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.

• 1 Chronicles 29:2

  Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the brass for the things of brass, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

• 1 Chronicles 29:3

  In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

• 1 Chronicles 29:19

  and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”

• 2 Chronicles 2:2

  Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.

• 2 Chronicles 2:4

  Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, to burn before him incense of sweet spices, for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 2:5

  “The house which I am building will be great; for our God is greater than all gods.

• 2 Chronicles 2:6

  But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?

• 2 Chronicles 2:17

  Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the census with which David his father had counted them; and they found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.

• 2 Chronicles 2:18

  He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to assign the people their work.

• 2 Chronicles 3:1

  Then Solomon began to build Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• 2 Chronicles 3:2

  He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

• 2 Chronicles 3:3

  Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of God’s house. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.

• 2 Chronicles 3:4

  The porch that was in front, its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

• 2 Chronicles 3:5

  He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.

• 2 Chronicles 3:6

  He decorated the house with precious stones for beauty. The gold was gold from Parvaim.

• 2 Chronicles 3:7

  He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.

• 2 Chronicles 3:8

  He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

• 2 Chronicles 3:9

  The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

• 2 Chronicles 3:10

  In the most holy place he made two cherubim by carving; and they overlaid them with gold.

• 2 Chronicles 3:11

  The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

• 2 Chronicles 3:12

  The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, joining to the wing of the other cherub.

• 2 Chronicles 3:13

  The wings of these cherubim spread themselves out twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.

• 2 Chronicles 3:14

  He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim.

• 2 Chronicles 3:15

  Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits height, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

• 2 Chronicles 3:16

  He made chains in the inner sanctuary, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

• 2 Chronicles 3:17

  He set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.

• 2 Chronicles 4:2

  Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim. It was round, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference.

• 2 Chronicles 4:3

  Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.

• 2 Chronicles 4:4

  It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward.

• 2 Chronicles 4:5

  It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It received and held three thousand baths.

• 2 Chronicles 4:6

  He also made ten basins, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them. The things that belonged to the burnt offering were washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

• 2 Chronicles 4:7

  He made the ten lamp stands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

• 2 Chronicles 4:9

  Furthermore he made the court of the priests, the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with brass.

• 2 Chronicles 4:10

  He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.

• 2 Chronicles 4:12

  the two pillars, the bowls, the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars, the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars,

• 2 Chronicles 4:13

  and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.

• 2 Chronicles 4:18

  Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance; for the weight of the brass could not be determined.

• 2 Chronicles 4:19

  Solomon made all the vessels that were in God’s house, the golden altar also, and the tables with the show bread on them;

• 2 Chronicles 4:20

  and the lamp stands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold;

• 2 Chronicles 4:21

  and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold that was perfect gold;

• 2 Chronicles 4:22

  and the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans of pure gold. As for the entry of the house, its inner doors for the most holy place and the doors of the main hall of the temple were of gold.

• 2 Chronicles 5:1

  Thus all the work that Solomon did for Yahweh’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of God’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 5:2

  Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.

• 2 Chronicles 5:3

  So all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month.

• 2 Chronicles 5:4

  All the elders of Israel came. The Levites took up the ark;

• 2 Chronicles 5:5

  and they brought up the ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these the priests the Levites brought up.

• 2 Chronicles 5:6

  King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or counted for multitude.

• 2 Chronicles 5:7

  The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.

• 2 Chronicles 5:8

  For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.

• 2 Chronicles 5:9

  The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark in front of the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside; and it is there to this day.

• 2 Chronicles 5:10

  There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

• 2 Chronicles 5:13

  when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying, “For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever!” then the house was filled with a cloud, even Yahweh’s house,

• 2 Chronicles 5:14

  so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled God’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 7:1

  Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and Yahweh’s glory filled the house.

• 2 Chronicles 7:2

  The priests could not enter into Yahweh’s house, because Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 7:3

  All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and Yahweh’s glory was on the house. They bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, saying, “For he is good; for his loving kindness endures for ever.”

• 2 Chronicles 7:12

  Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.

• 2 Chronicles 7:16

  For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.

• 2 Chronicles 15:8

  When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed Yahweh’s altar that was before Yahweh’s porch.

• 2 Chronicles 20:8

  They lived in it, and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying,

• 2 Chronicles 23:5

  A third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation. All the people will be in the courts of Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 23:9

  Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David’s, which were in God’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 23:10

  He set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, near the altar and the house, around the king.

• 2 Chronicles 23:12

  When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 24:6

  The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?”

• 2 Chronicles 24:7

  For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of Yahweh’s house to the Baals.

• 2 Chronicles 24:8

  So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 24:9

  They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for Yahweh the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.

• 2 Chronicles 24:10

  All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it.

• 2 Chronicles 24:11

  Whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

• 2 Chronicles 24:12

  The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of Yahweh’s house. They hired masons and carpenters to restore Yahweh’s house, and also those who worked iron and brass to repair Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 24:13

  So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands. They set up God’s house as it was designed, and strengthened it.

• 2 Chronicles 24:14

  When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for Yahweh’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in Yahweh’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada.

• 2 Chronicles 29:7

  Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 29:18

  Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within the palace, and said, “We have cleansed all Yahweh’s house, including the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, and the table of show bread with all its vessels.

• 2 Chronicles 30:27

  Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.

• 2 Chronicles 36:17

  Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed. He gave them all into his hand.

• Nehemiah 6:10

  I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night will they come to kill you.”

• Nehemiah 6:11

  I said, “Should a man like me flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”

• Nehemiah 10:37

  and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

• Nehemiah 10:38

  The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes. The Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms, into the treasure house.

• Nehemiah 10:39

  For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and the priests who minister, with the porters and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God.

• Psalms 20:2

  send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,

• Psalms 48:12

  Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.

• Psalms 74:2

  Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

• Psalms 79:1

  A Psalm by Asaph. God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

• Psalms 87:2

  Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

• Psalms 132:2

  how he swore to Yahweh, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

• Psalms 132:3

  “Surely I will not come into the structure of my house, nor go up into my bed;

• Psalms 132:4

  I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids;

• Psalms 132:5

  until I find out a place for Yahweh, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

• Isaiah 2:2

  It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.

• Isaiah 2:3

  Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Zion the law shall go out, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

• Isaiah 27:13

  It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

• Isaiah 56:7

  I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”

• Isaiah 60:7

  All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you. The rams of Nebaioth will serve you. They will be accepted as offerings on my altar; and I will beautify my glorious house.

• Isaiah 64:11

  Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.

• Jeremiah 7:2

  “Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.’”

• Jeremiah 19:14

  Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Yahweh’s house, and said to all the people:

• Jeremiah 26:2

  “Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word.

• Jeremiah 26:10

  When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to Yahweh’s house; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’s house.

• Jeremiah 28:5

  Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people who stood in Yahweh’s house,

• Jeremiah 36:10

  Then Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the book in Yahweh’s house, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’s house, in the ears of all the people.

• Lamentations 1:10

  The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.

• Ezekiel 10:3

  Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

• Ezekiel 10:4

  Yahweh’s glory mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh’s glory.

• Ezekiel 46:1

  Thus says the Lord Yahweh: The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

• Ezekiel 46:2

  The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

• Ezekiel 46:3

  The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before Yahweh on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.

• Ezekiel 46:9

  But when the people of the land shall come before Yahweh in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go out by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go out straight before him.

• Ezekiel 46:12

  When the prince shall prepare a freewill offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to Yahweh, one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day: then he shall go out; and after his going out one shall shut the gate.

• Daniel 6:10

  When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

• Jonah 2:4

  I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

• Micah 1:2

  Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

• Zechariah 7:2

  The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat Yahweh’s favor,

• Zechariah 7:3

  and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”

• Zechariah 8:21

  and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Armies. I will go also.’

• Zechariah 8:22

  Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of Armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh.”

• Matthew 21:13

  He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”

• Matthew 23:17

  You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

• Mark 11:17

  He taught, saying to them, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?’ But you have made it a den of robbers!”

• Luke 1:10

  The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.

• Luke 2:37

  and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

• Luke 18:10

  “Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

• Luke 21:5

  As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,

• John 2:14

  He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

• John 2:15

  He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew their tables.

• John 2:16

  To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

• Acts 3:1

  Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

• Acts 3:2

  A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

• Acts 7:46

  who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

• Acts 7:47

  But Solomon built him a house.

• Acts 22:17

  “When I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,

• Hebrews 9:3

  After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,