11 Then David gave his son Solomon (A)the plans for the vestibule, its houses, its treasuries, its upper chambers, its inner chambers, and the place of the mercy seat;

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19 “All this,said David, (A)“the Lord made me understand in writing, by His hand upon me, all the [a]works of these plans.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 28:19 details

The vestibule in front of the [a]sanctuary of the house was [b]twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and the width of [c]the vestibule extended [d]ten cubits from the front of the house.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:3 Heb. heykal; here the main room of the temple; elsewhere called the holy place, Ex. 26:33; Ezek. 41:1
  2. 1 Kings 6:3 About 30 feet
  3. 1 Kings 6:3 Lit. it
  4. 1 Kings 6:3 About 15 feet

40 And (A)see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.

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who serve (A)the copy and (B)shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, (C)“See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”

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17 (A)“You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits shall be its length and a cubit and a half its width. 18 And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work you shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. 19 Make one cherub at one end, and the other cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim at the two ends of it of one piece with the mercy seat. 20 And (B)the cherubim shall stretch out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and they shall face one another; the faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat. 21 (C)You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and (D)in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you. 22 And (E)there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from (F)between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.

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For a tabernacle was prepared: the first part, in which was the lampstand, the table, and the showbread, which is called the [a]sanctuary; (A)and behind the second veil, the part of the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of All, which had the (B)golden censer and (C)the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were (D)the golden pot that had the manna, (E)Aaron’s rod that budded, and (F)the tablets of the covenant; and (G)above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.

Limitations of the Earthly Service

Now when these things had been thus prepared, (H)the priests always went into the first part of the tabernacle, performing the services. But into the second part the high priest went alone (I)once a year, not without blood, which he offered for (J)himself and for the people’s sins committed in ignorance; the Holy Spirit indicating this, that (K)the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 9:2 holy place, lit. holies

The Widow’s Two Mites(A)

21 And He looked up (B)and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,

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10 “Son of man, (A)describe the [a]temple to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern. 11 And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the [b]temple and its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its (B)ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole design and all its ordinances, and (C)perform them.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 43:10 Lit. house
  2. Ezekiel 43:11 Lit. house

Dimensions and Design of the Temple Area

13 So he measured the temple, one (A)hundred cubits long; and the separating courtyard with the building and its walls was one hundred cubits long; 14 also the width of the eastern face of the temple, including the separating courtyard, was one hundred cubits. 15 He measured the length of the building behind it, facing the separating courtyard, with its (B)galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits, as well as the inner [a]temple and the porches of the court, 16 their doorposts and (C)the beveled window frames. And the galleries all around their three stories opposite the threshold were paneled with (D)wood from the ground to the windows—the windows were covered— 17 from the space above the door, even to the inner [b]room, as well as outside, and on every wall all around, inside and outside, by measure.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 41:15 Or sanctuary
  2. Ezekiel 41:17 Lit. house; the Most Holy Place

(A)The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty chambers in each story; they rested on [a]ledges which were for the side chambers all around, that they might be supported, but (B)not fastened to the wall of the temple. As one went up from story to story, the side chambers (C)became wider all around, because their supporting ledges in the wall of the temple ascended like steps; therefore the width of the structure increased as one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the middle one. I also saw an elevation all around the temple; it was the foundation of the side chambers, (D)a full rod, that is, six cubits high. The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits, and so also the remaining terrace by the place of the side chambers of the [b]temple. 10 And between it and the wall chambers was a width of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side. 11 The doors of the side chambers opened on the terrace, one door toward the north and another toward the south; and the width of the terrace was five cubits all around.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 41:6 Lit. the wall
  2. Ezekiel 41:9 Lit. house

48 Then he brought me to the (A)vestibule of the temple and measured the doorposts of the vestibule, five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side; and the width of the gateway was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side. 49 (B)The length of the vestibule was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits; and by the steps which led up to it there were (C)pillars by the doorposts, one on this side and another on that side.

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15 From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the vestibule of the inner gate was fifty cubits.

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He also measured the vestibule of the inside gate, one rod. Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and the gateposts, two cubits. The vestibule of the gate was on the inside.

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“Go to the house of the (A)Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of (B)the chambers, and give them wine to drink.”

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And he had prepared for him a large room, (A)where previously they had stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the articles, the tithes of grain, the new wine and oil, (B)which were commanded to be given to the Levites and singers and gatekeepers, and the offerings for the priests.

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38 And the priest, the descendant of Aaron, shall be with the Levites (A)when the Levites receive tithes; and the Levites shall bring up a tenth of the tithes to the house of our God, to (B)the rooms of the storehouse.

39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi (C)shall bring the offering of the grain, of the new wine and the oil, to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are, where the priests who minister and the gatekeepers (D)and the singers are; and we will not (E)neglect the house of our God.

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Then the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the (A)inner sanctuary of the [a]temple, to the Most Holy Place, under the wings of the cherubim.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 5:7 Lit. house

This is the foundation (A)which Solomon laid for building the house of God: The length was sixty cubits (by cubits according to the former measure) and the width twenty cubits. And the (B)vestibule that was in front of [a]the sanctuary was twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and the height was [b]one hundred and twenty. He overlaid the inside with pure gold. (C)The larger [c]room he (D)paneled with cypress which he overlaid with fine gold, and he carved palm trees and chainwork on it. And he decorated the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was gold from Parvaim. He also overlaid the house—the beams and doorposts, its walls and doors—with gold; and he carved cherubim on the walls.

And he made the (E)Most Holy Place. Its length was according to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits. He overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold. The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold; and he overlaid the upper (F)area with gold. 10 (G)In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim, fashioned by carving, and overlaid them with gold.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:4 The holy place, the main room of the temple, 1 Kin. 6:3
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:4 So with MT, LXX, Vg.; Arab., some LXX mss., Syr. twenty
  3. 2 Chronicles 3:5 Lit. house

The Treasuries and Other Duties

20 Of the Levites, Ahijah was (A)over the treasuries of the house of God and over the treasuries of the (B)dedicated[a] things. 21 The sons of [b]Laadan, the descendants of the Gershonites of Laadan, heads of their fathers’ houses, of Laadan the Gershonite: [c]Jehieli. 22 The sons of Jehieli, Zetham and Joel his brother, were over the treasuries of the house of the Lord. 23 Of the (C)Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites: 24 (D)Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was overseer of the treasuries. 25 And his brethren by Eliezer were Rehabiah his son, Jeshaiah his son, Joram his son, Zichri his son, and (E)Shelomith his son.

26 This Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasuries of the dedicated things (F)which King David and the heads of fathers’ houses, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated. 27 Some of the [d]spoils won in battles they dedicated to maintain the house of the Lord.

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