Quotes about Construction
Now behold, I have taken great pains to provide for the house of the LORD—100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron too great to be weighed. I have also provided timber and stone, and you may add to them.
- 1 Chronicles 22:14
You also have many workers: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and men skilled in every kind of work—
- 1 Chronicles 22:15
Then Solomon sent word to Hiram king of Tyre: “Do for me as you did for my father David when you sent him cedars to build himself a house to live in.
- 2 Chronicles 2:3
to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.
- 2 Chronicles 2:9
We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and we will float them to you as rafts by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.”
- 2 Chronicles 2:16
Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
- 2 Chronicles 3:2
The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
- 2 Chronicles 3:4
He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim.
- 2 Chronicles 3:6
Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.
- 2 Chronicles 3:8
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper area with gold.
- 2 Chronicles 3:9
In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits.
- 2 Chronicles 3:15
Then he set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south and one on the north. The pillar on the south he named Jachin, and the pillar on the north he named Boaz.
- 2 Chronicles 3:17