Quotes about Temple
Toward the service of God’s house they gave 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze, and 100,000 talents of iron.
- 1 Chronicles 29:7
Whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the LORD, under the care of Jehiel the Gershonite.
- 1 Chronicles 29:8
And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”
- 1 Chronicles 29:19
to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.
- 2 Chronicles 2:9
And Hiram added: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth! He has given King David a wise son with insight and understanding, who will build a temple for the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
- 2 Chronicles 2:12
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 the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of sculptured work, and he overlaid them with gold.
- 2 Chronicles 3:10
The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the wall of the temple, and its other wing was five cubits long and touched the wing of the other cherub.
- 2 Chronicles 3:11