Bible Verses About The First Temple

The foundation of the house of ADONAI was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv.

In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, all parts of the house were completed exactly as designed. Thus he was seven years building it.

He made the two bronze columns, each one thirty-one-and-a-half feet high and twenty-one feet in circumference.

He made two capitals of melted bronze to set on the tops of the columns; each capital was eight-and-three-quarters feet high;

he also made checker-work nets and chained wreaths, seven for the top of each capital.

When he made the columns, he made two rows of pomegranates to put at the top of each column around the netting covering its capital.

The capitals on the columns in the hall had shapes like lilies and were seven feet high.

As for the capitals on the two columns, there were 200 pomegranates in rows around each capital near the molding by the netting.

He erected the columns in the hall of the temple; on erecting the right column he gave it the name "Yakhin," and on erecting the left column he named it "Bo'az."

On the tops of the columns were shapes like lilies; thus the work of the columns was finished.

Then Shlomo assembled all the leaders of Isra'el, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the paternal clans of the people of Isra'el, to King Shlomo in Yerushalayim, to bring the ark for the covenant of ADONAI out of the City of David, also known as Tziyon.

All the men of Isra'el assembled before King Shlomo at the festival in the month of Etanim, the seventh month.

All the leaders of Isra'el came. The cohanim took the ark

and brought up the ark of ADONAI, the tent of meeting and all the holy utensils that were in the tent; these are what the cohanim and L'vi'im brought up.

King Shlomo and the whole community of Isra'el assembled in his presence were with him in front of the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen in numbers beyond counting or recording.

The cohanim brought the ark for the covenant of ADONAI in to its place inside the sanctuary of the house, to the Especially Holy Place, under the wings of the k'ruvim.

For the k'ruvim spread out their wings over the place for the ark, covering the ark and its poles from above.

The poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside; they are there to this day.

There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moshe put there at Horev, when ADONAI made the covenant with the people of Isra'el at the time of their leaving the land of Egypt.

When the cohanim came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house of ADONAI,

so that, because of the cloud, the cohanim could not stand up to perform their service; for the glory of ADONAI filled the house of ADONAI.

Shlomo said, "ADONAI said he would live in thick darkness.

But I have built you a magnificent house, a place where you can live forever."

Then the king turned around and blessed the whole community of Isra'el. The whole community of Isra'el stood

as he said: "Blessed be ADONAI, the God of Isra'el, who spoke to my father David with his mouth and fulfilled his promise with his hand. He said,