Quotes about Temple
The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.
- 1 Kings 6:8
So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
- 1 Kings 6:9
He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
- 1 Kings 6:10
Then the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying:
- 1 Kings 6:11
“As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.
- 1 Kings 6:12
So Solomon built the temple and finished it.
- 1 Kings 6:14
He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.
- 1 Kings 6:15
He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
- 1 Kings 6:16
And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
- 1 Kings 6:17
The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.
- 1 Kings 6:18
Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
- 1 Kings 6:19
The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
- 1 Kings 6:20