Temple

How Nave’s arranged it

• SOLOMON' S
• Also called TEMPLE OF THE LORD2 Kings 11:10
• HOLY TEMPLEPsalms 79:1
• HOLY HOUSE1 Chronicles 29:3
• HOUSE OF GOD1 Chronicles 29:22 Chronicles 23:9
• HOUSE OF THE LORD2 Chronicles 23:52 Chronicles 23:12Jeremiah 28:5
• FATHER' S HOUSEJohn 2:16
• HOUSE OF THE GOD OF JACOBIsaiah 2:3
• HOUSE OF MY GLORYIsaiah 60:7
• HOUSE OF PRAYERIsaiah 56:7Matthew 21:13
• HOUSE OF SACRIFICE2 Chronicles 7:12
• HOUSE OF THEIR SANCTUARY2 Chronicles 36:17

The passages, in Bible order (318)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 22:2

   “Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 22:22 voices

   “Yes: take Isaac, him by name, thy laughter, that son indeed. Yea, that son whom thou lovest - The trial was of Abraham's love to God, and therefore it must be in a beloved son: in the Hebrew 'tis expressed more emphatically, and I think might very well be read thus, Take now that son of thine, that only son of thine, whom thou lovest, that Isaac.

   “(Chapter 22, Verse 2.) And God said to him: Take your beloved son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the high land, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I will tell you. It is difficult to translate the Hebrew language into Latin. Where it is now said, go to the high land, in Hebrew it has Moriah, which Aquila translated as 'the visible', that is, clear, and Symmachus, 'the vision', that is, sight.

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2. Genesis 22:4

   On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 22:42 voices

   “The third day, however, is always applied to mysteries. For also when the people had departed from Egypt, they offer sacrifice to God on the third day and are purified on the third day. And the third day is the day of the Lord's resurrection. Many other mysteries also are included within this day.

   “Then on the third day,.... After he had received the command from God, and from his setting out on his journey; for he had now travelled two days, Mount Moriah being forty miles from Beersheba, where Abraham dwelt (s); or, as others compute it, forty: Hebron (t) was twenty miles from Beersheba, and Jerusalem twenty two from Hebron; and to travel twenty miles a day on foot, as Isaac and the servants seem to have done, there being but one ass among them, was far enough in those hot countries.

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3. 1 Samuel 5:2

   carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 5:22 voices

   “The house of Dagon - On this idol, which was supposed to be partly in a human form, and partly in that of a fish, see the note on Jdg 16:23. Some think that this idol was the same with Dirceto, Attergatis, the Venus of Askelon, and the Moon. - See Calmet’s Dissertation on the gods of the Philistines. The motive which induced the Philistines to set up the ark in the temple of Dagon, may be easily ascertained. It was customary, in all nations, to dedicate the spoils taken from an enemy to their gods:

   “1. What does it mean that the ark is carried away from the Stone of Help, except that the heralds of truth take away the mysteries of the Scriptures from that Christ whom the Jews await with a false expectation? For while they turn the testimonies of Holy Scripture toward the knowledge of the true Redeemer, they indeed take the ark away from him in whom the Jews had placed the hope of their help. And because the mysteries of faith are entrusted to the Gentiles, the ark of God is brought to Azotus.

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4. 1 Samuel 31:10

   They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 31:102 voices

   “And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth,.... A temple dedicated to their deities, called by this name; of which See Gill on Jdg 2:13; Nothing was more common with the Gentiles than to place in their temples the arms they took from their enemies, as is strongly expressed by Homer (i) and Virgil (k); and indeed the Jews did the same, as appears by the sword of Goliath being laid up in the tabernacle, 1Sa 21:

   “There was also a special providence of God, in taking away Jonathan, (who of all Saul's sons, seems to have been the fairest for the crown) for preventing divisions, which might have happened amongst the people concerning the successor: David's way to the crown being by this means made the more clear.

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5. 2 Samuel 7:2

   he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 7:22 voices

   “It was magnificent for that age, though made wholly of wood: houses in warm countries not being required to possess the solidity and thickness of walls which are requisite for dwellings in regions exposed to rain and cold. Cedar was the rarest and most valuable timber.

   “That the king said unto Nathan the prophet,.... This is the first time this prophet is made mention of, but often afterwards, yet who he was, and from whence he came, is not known; he appears to be a man of great piety and prudence, as well as endowed with a prophetic spirit, and was very familiar with David, and perhaps dwelt in his palace; being a man on all accounts fit for conversation with princes, to whom David imparted what he had been meditating upon in his heart.

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6. 2 Samuel 7:3

   And Nathan replied to the king, “Go and do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 7:32 voices

   “The spirit of prophecy doth not always illuminate the minds of the prophets; because, as it is written of the Holy Ghost that he breatheth where he will, so we are also to know that he doth breathe likewise for what cause, and when he pleaseth. And hereof it cometh, that when king David demanded of Nathan whether he might build a temple for the honour of God, the prophet Nathan gave his consent; and yet afterward utterly forbad it.

   “Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart--The piety of the design commended it to the prophet's mind, and he gave his hasty approval and encouragement to the royal plans.

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7. 2 Samuel 7:4–12

   But that night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying,

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 7:4–121 voice

   “And it came to pass that night,.... The same night following the day in which David and Nathan had had the above conversation, that neither of them might continue long in their error and mistake, and especially lest David, in his great zeal and warm affection, should take an hasty and improper step: that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan; the word of prophecy, as the Targum; before he was not under a prophetic influence, but spoke in his own words, and had not the word of God; but now it came to him: saying; as follows.

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8. 2 Samuel 7:7

   In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people Israel, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 7:72 voices

   “In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel,....

   “The tribes of Israel - The duplicate passage reads judges (see margin and compare 2Sa 7:11). But a comparison with such passages as Psa 78:67-68; 1Ki 8:16; and 1Ch 28:4, favors the reading “tribes,” and the phrase is a condensed one, the meaning of which is, that whatever tribe had in times past supplied the ruler of Israel, whether Ephraim in the days of Joshua, or Benjamin in the time of Saul, or Judah in that of David, God had never required any of these tribes to build a house in one of their cities.

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9. 2 Samuel 7:13

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

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 7:132 voices

   “For my name - That is, for my service, and glory. For ever - This is not meant of Solomon, for his kingdom was not forever. But it is to be understood of David's posterity, in general, and with special respect to Christ, in whose person the kingdom was to be lodged forever.

   “He shall build an house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever--This declaration referred, in its primary application, to Solomon, and to the temporal kingdom of David's family. But in a larger and sublimer sense, it was meant of David's Son of another nature (Heb 1:8). [See on 1Ch 17:14.] 2Sa 7:18-29. DAVID'S PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING.

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10. 1 Kings 5:3

    “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.

    ›Commentary on 1 Kings 5:32 voices

    “Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the Lord his God,....

    “Solomon’s presumption that Hiram knew David’s design has not appeared in the previous history, but it is in accordance with 1Ch 22:4.

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11. 1 Kings 5:8–18

    Then Hiram sent a reply to Solomon, saying: “I have received your message; I will do all you desire regarding the cedar and cypress timber.

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    “Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things . . . and I will do--The contract was drawn out formally in a written document (2Ch 2:11), which, according to JOSEPHUS, was preserved both in the Jewish and Tyrian records.

    “And Hiram sent to Solomon,.... A letter to him, to the following purpose: saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for; whether he could, and whether it was fitting he should grant his request; which was acting like a wise and prudent prince: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir; or of cypress, as in Josephus's copy of this letter, and which grew on Lebanon (c); these were odorous, sound, and durable timber, especially the cedar, and therefore chosen by Solomon for building. (c) Diodor. Sic. l.

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12. 1 Kings 5:13–16

    Then King Solomon conscripted a labor force of 30,000 men from all Israel.

    ›Commentary on 1 Kings 5:13–162 voices

    “If it seem strange, that so many thousands should be employed about so small a building as the temple was; it must be considered, 1. that the temple, all its parts being considered, was far larger than men imagine; 2. that it is probable, they were employed by turns, as the thirty thousand were, ver. 14, else they had been oppressed with hard and uninterrupted labours.

    “A levy out of all Israel - This was, apparently, the first time that the Israelites had been called upon to perform forced labor, though it had been prophesied 1Sa 8:16. David had bound to forced service “the strangers” 1Ch 22:2; but hitherto the Israelites had escaped. Solomon now, in connection with his proposed work of building the temple, with the honor of God as an excuse, laid this burden upon them.

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13. 1 Kings 5:17

    And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.

    ›Commentary on 1 Kings 5:172 voices

    “But it seems to be in accord with the solemn celebration that we are observing to recall something about the building of the temple and to search out how appropriately its adornment suits the significance of the church. Scripture tells how Solomon ordered that "they …

    “And the king commanded, and they brought great stones,....

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14. 1 Kings 5:18

    So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.

    ›Commentary on 1 Kings 5:182 voices

    These great bevelled or grooved stones, measuring some twenty, others thirty feet in length, and from five to six feet in breadth, are still seen in the substructures about the ancient site of the temple; and, in the judgment of the most competent observers, were those originally employed "to lay the foundation of the house."

    “Stone-squarers - Hebrew. the Giblites, the inhabitants of Gebel, a place near Zidon, famous for artificers and architects, Josh. xiii, 5. These are here mentioned apart, distinct from the rest of Hiram's builders, as the most eminent of them.

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15. 1 Kings 6:1

    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 Solomon’s reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the LORD.

    ›Commentary on 1 Kings 6:12 voices

    “Where it says, "in the fourth year in the month of Zio, which is the second month of the reign of Solomon over Israel," the intended order is, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon in the month of Zio, that is, the …

    “And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt,....

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16. 1 Kings 6:3

    The 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.

    ›Commentary on 1 Kings 6:32 voices

    "There was also a porch in front of the temple, twenty cubits in length to correspond with the width of the temple." It had a door opposite the door of the temple and was ten cubits deep, facing the east. This porch represents the people …

    “And the porch before the temple of the house,....

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