Bible Cross References
the beauty
Ezekiel 24:21
to give you Israelites this message: You are proud of the strength of the Temple. You like to look at it and to visit it, but the LORD is going to profane it. And the younger members of your families who are left in Jerusalem will be killed in war.
1 Chronicles 29:1
King David announced to the whole assembly: "My son Solomon is the one whom God has chosen, but he is still young and lacks experience. The work to be done is tremendous, because this is not a palace for people but a temple for the LORD God.
1 Chronicles 29:2
I have made every effort to prepare materials for the Temple---gold, silver, bronze, iron, timber, precious stones and gems, stones for mosaics, and quantities of marble.
2 Chronicles 2:9
in preparing large quantities of timber, because this temple I intend to build will be large and magnificent.
2 Chronicles 3:1-17
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King David, Solomon's father, had already prepared a place for the Temple. It was in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to David, at the place which Araunah the Jebusite had used as a threshing place. King Solomon began the construction
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in the second month of the fourth year that he was king.
3
The Temple which King Solomon built was 90 feet long and 30 feet wide.
4
The entrance room was the full width of the Temple, 30 feet, and was 180 feet high. The inside of the room was overlaid with pure gold.
5
The main room was paneled with cedar and overlaid with fine gold, in which were worked designs of palm trees and chain patterns.
6
The king decorated the Temple with beautiful precious stones and with gold imported from the land of Parvaim.
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He used the gold to overlay the Temple walls, the rafters, the entryways, and the doors. On the walls the workers carved designs of winged creatures.
8
The inner room, called the Most Holy Place, was 30 feet long and 30 feet wide, which was the full width of the Temple. Twenty-five tons of gold were used to cover the walls of the Most Holy Place;
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twenty ounces of gold were used for making nails, and the walls of the upper rooms were also covered with gold.
10
The king also had his workers make two winged creatures out of metal, cover them with gold, and place them in the Most Holy Place,
11
where they stood side by side facing the entrance. Each had two wings, each wing 7 1/2 feet long, which were spread out so that they touched each other in the center of the room and reached to the wall on either side of the room, stretching across the full width of 30 feet.
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A curtain for the Most Holy Place was made of linen and of other material, which was dyed blue, purple, and red, with designs of the winged creatures worked into it.
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The king had two columns made, each one 52 feet tall, and placed them in front of the Temple. Each one had a capital 7 1/2 feet tall.
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The tops of the columns were decorated with a design of interwoven chains and one hundred bronze pomegranates.
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The columns were set at the sides of the Temple entrance: the one on the south side was named Jachin and the one on the north side was named Boaz.
Ezra 3:12
Many of the older priests, Levites, and heads of clans had seen the first Temple, and as they watched the foundation of this Temple being laid, they cried and wailed. But the others who were there shouted for joy.
Psalm 48:2
Zion, the mountain of God, is high and beautiful; the city of the great king brings joy to all the world.
Psalm 50:2
God shines from Zion, the city perfect in its beauty.
Psalm 87:2
more than any other place in Israel he loves the city of Jerusalem.
Psalm 87:3
Listen, city of God, to the wonderful things he says about you:
Isaiah 64:11
and our Temple, the sacred and beautiful place where our ancestors praised you, has been destroyed by fire. All the places we loved are in ruins.
Haggai 2:3
"Is there anyone among you who can still remember how splendid the Temple used to be? How does it look to you now? It must seem like nothing at all.
but
Ezekiel 5:11
"Therefore, as I am the living God---this is the word of the Sovereign LORD ---because you defiled my Temple with all the evil, disgusting things you did, I will cut you down without mercy.
Ezekiel 8:7-10
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He took me to the entrance of the outer courtyard and showed me a hole in the wall.
8
He said, "Mortal man, break through the wall here." I broke through it and found a door.
9
He told me, "Go in and look at the evil, disgusting things they are doing there."
10
So I went in and looked. The walls were covered with drawings of snakes and other unclean animals, and of the other things which the Israelites were worshiping.
Ezekiel 8:15-10
Ezekiel 8:16-10
2 Kings 21:4
He built pagan altars in the Temple, the place that the LORD had said was where he should be worshiped.
2 Kings 21:7
He placed the symbol of the goddess Asherah in the Temple, the place about which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon: "Here in Jerusalem, in this Temple, is the place that I have chosen out of all the territory of the twelve tribes of Israel as the place where I am to be worshiped.
2 Kings 23:11
He also removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the worship of the sun, and he burned the chariots used in this worship. (These were kept in the temple courtyard, near the gate and not far from the living quarters of Nathan Melech, a high official.)
2 Kings 23:12
The altars which the kings of Judah had built on the palace roof above King Ahaz' quarters, King Josiah tore down, along with the altars put up by King Manasseh in the two courtyards of the Temple; he smashed the altars to bits and threw them into Kidron Valley.
2 Chronicles 33:4-7
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He built pagan altars in the Temple, the place that the LORD had said was where he should be worshiped forever.
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In the two courtyards of the Temple he built altars for the worship of the stars.
6
He sacrificed his sons in Hinnom Valley as burnt offerings. He practiced divination and magic and consulted fortunetellers and mediums. He sinned greatly against the LORD and stirred up his anger.
7
He placed an image in the Temple, the place about which God had said to David and his son Solomon: "Here in Jerusalem, in this Temple, is the place that I have chosen out of all the territory of the twelve tribes of Israel as the place where I am to be worshiped.
2 Chronicles 36:14
In addition, the leaders of Judah, the priests, and the people followed the sinful example of the nations around them in worshiping idols, and so they defiled the Temple, which the LORD himself had made holy.
Jeremiah 7:30
"The people of Judah have done an evil thing. They have placed their idols, which I hate, in my Temple and have defiled it.
set it far from them
Ezekiel 7:22
I will not interfere when my treasured Temple is profaned, when robbers break into it and defile it.
Ezekiel 9:7
God said to them, "Defile the Temple. Fill its courtyards with corpses. Get to work!" So they began to kill the people in the city.
Ezekiel 24:21
to give you Israelites this message: You are proud of the strength of the Temple. You like to look at it and to visit it, but the LORD is going to profane it. And the younger members of your families who are left in Jerusalem will be killed in war.
Jeremiah 7:14
And so, what I did to Shiloh I will do to this Temple of mine, in which you trust. Here in this place that I gave to your ancestors and you, I will do the same thing that I did to Shiloh.
Lamentations 1:10
The enemies robbed her of all her treasures. She saw them enter the Temple itself, Where the LORD had forbidden Gentiles to go.
Lamentations 2:1
The Lord in his anger has covered Zion with darkness. Its heavenly splendor he has turned into ruins. On the day of his anger he abandoned even his Temple.
Lamentations 2:7
The Lord rejected his altar and deserted his holy Temple; He allowed the enemy to tear down its walls. They shouted in victory where once we had worshiped in joy.