Quotes about Temple
They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among their people.
- 1 Samuel 31:9
They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
- 1 Samuel 31:10
In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried out to my God. And from His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for help reached His ears.
- 2 Samuel 22:7
The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.
- 1 Kings 3:2
And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.
- 1 Kings 5:17
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.
- 1 Kings 5:18
The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
- 1 Kings 6:2
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.
- 1 Kings 6:3
He also had narrow windows framed high in the temple.
- 1 Kings 6:4
Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
- 1 Kings 6:5
The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.
- 1 Kings 6:6
The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.
- 1 Kings 6:7