Quotes About Faith

Ahinadab son of Iddo in Mahanaim;

Ahimaaz in Naphtali (he had married Basemath, a daughter of Solomon);

Baana son of Hushai in Asher and in Aloth;

Jehoshaphat son of Paruah in Issachar;

The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.

Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.

“As you are well aware, due to the wars waged on all sides against my father David, he could not build a house for the Name of the LORD his God until the LORD had put his enemies under his feet.

But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side, and there is no adversary or crisis.

So Solomonís and Hiramís builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomonís reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the LORD.

The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.

So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.

Then the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying:

So Solomon built the temple and finished it.

And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.

In the same way he made four-sided doorposts of olive wood for the sanctuary entrance.

In his eleventh year and eighth month, the month of Bul, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.

The house was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five beams, fifteen per row.

There were three rows of high windows facing one another in three tiers.

All the doorways had rectangular frames, with the openings facing one another in three tiers.

Above these were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.

Thus he set up the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jachin, and the pillar to the north he named Boaz.