Quotes About Temple

Solomon left all these articles unweighed, because there were so many. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.

the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the Most Holy Place) as well as for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

So all the work that King Solomon had performed for the house of the LORD was completed. Then Solomon brought in the items his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.

Then 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.

The poles extended far enough that their ends were visible from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.

And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD

Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.

I have indeed built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever.”

Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ëMy Name shall be there,í so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.

When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,

When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple,

then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—

for they will hear of Your great name and mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,

And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.

Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,

And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.

And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ëWhy has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?í

Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,

This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense with them before the LORD. So he completed the temple.

The king made the almug wood into steps for the house of the LORD and for the kingís palace, and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had such almug wood been brought in, nor has such been seen to this day.)