Post by Lee on Oct 15, 2014 0:59:41 GMT
It is styled “The house of the Lord”: this was literally true, for the Lord was the designer and architect, and the edifice was used for His service.
Situation: The temple was built on the summit of Mount Moriah, near Mount Zion in Jerusalem (2 Chron. 3:1.), where Abraham had prepared to offer Isaac, centuries before, and where the angel had appeared to David, when the pestilence was stayed over the threshing-floor of Araunah. The site, it is said, “was enlarged by the erection of a strong wall of square stone around the mountain, with the intervening space filled up with earth. Another wall, with an interior colonnade, surrounded the whole structure, thus forming two courts, the inner one being called the court of the temple, and containing the sacred furniture and vestments of the Priests and Levites: whilst in the outer one was erected the magazines for the wine, corn, oil and wood used in the divine service.”
Size: The temple itself 70 cubits (verse 2) was 128 feet long, 20 cubits (36 feet) broad, and 30 cubits (54 feet) high, with a portico or porch 20 cubits (36 feet) broad. like the main building, but 120 cubits (216 feet) high. The holy place was 40 cubits (72 feet) long, and the holy of holies 20 cubits (36 feet). The interior edifice was built upon the plan of the tabernacle, but of much larger dimensions.
Time: B.C. 1012, the fourth year of Solomon’s reign. Three or four years were occupied in collecting material, and seven years in building.
. Vol. 32: The Christadelphian: Volume 32. 2001 (electronic ed.) (69). Birmingham: Christadelphian Magazine & Publishing Association.
Situation: The temple was built on the summit of Mount Moriah, near Mount Zion in Jerusalem (2 Chron. 3:1.), where Abraham had prepared to offer Isaac, centuries before, and where the angel had appeared to David, when the pestilence was stayed over the threshing-floor of Araunah. The site, it is said, “was enlarged by the erection of a strong wall of square stone around the mountain, with the intervening space filled up with earth. Another wall, with an interior colonnade, surrounded the whole structure, thus forming two courts, the inner one being called the court of the temple, and containing the sacred furniture and vestments of the Priests and Levites: whilst in the outer one was erected the magazines for the wine, corn, oil and wood used in the divine service.”
Size: The temple itself 70 cubits (verse 2) was 128 feet long, 20 cubits (36 feet) broad, and 30 cubits (54 feet) high, with a portico or porch 20 cubits (36 feet) broad. like the main building, but 120 cubits (216 feet) high. The holy place was 40 cubits (72 feet) long, and the holy of holies 20 cubits (36 feet). The interior edifice was built upon the plan of the tabernacle, but of much larger dimensions.
Time: B.C. 1012, the fourth year of Solomon’s reign. Three or four years were occupied in collecting material, and seven years in building.
. Vol. 32: The Christadelphian: Volume 32. 2001 (electronic ed.) (69). Birmingham: Christadelphian Magazine & Publishing Association.