Temple, the First

The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.

• 2 Samuel 7:2Torrey DAVID — Anxious to build

  That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.

• 2 Samuel 7:5–9Torrey DAVID — Being a man of war not permitted to build

  Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in? Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and…

• 2 Samuel 7:12Torrey DAVID — Told by the prophet that Solomon should build

  ¶ And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

• 2 Samuel 7:13Torrey DAVID — Told by the prophet that Solomon should build

  He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

• 1 Kings 5:3Torrey DAVID — Being a man of war not permitted to build

  Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.

• 1 Kings 5:6–12Torrey SOLOMON — Contracted with Hiram for wood, stone, and labour

  Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any…

• 1 Kings 5:13Torrey SOLOMON — Employed thirty thousand Israelites in the work

  ¶ And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

• 1 Kings 5:14Torrey SOLOMON — Employed thirty thousand Israelites in the work

  And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy.

• 1 Kings 5:15Torrey SOLOMON — Employed all the strangers in preparing for

  And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;

• 1 Kings 6:1Torrey SOLOMON — Commenced second day of second month of fourth year of Solomon

  And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of…

• 1 Kings 6:2Torrey Was three score cubits longs, twenty broad, and thirty high

  And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.

• 1 Kings 6:3Torrey THE PORCH OF — Twenty cubits long and ten broad

  And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.