Bible Verses About The First Temple

He made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever;

In the eighteenth year of king Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the LORD’s house, saying,

“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into the LORD’s house, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people.

Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the LORD’s house; and let them give it to the workmen who are in the LORD’s house, to repair the breaches of the house,

to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.

However there was no accounting made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.”

The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of the LORD’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

He put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky.

He brought out the Asherah from the LORD’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.

He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the LORD’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the LORD’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the LORD’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.

He burnt the LORD’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.

The Kasdim broke up the pillars of brass that were in the LORD’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the LORD’s house, and carried the brass pieces to Babylon.

They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered.

The captain of the guard took away the fire pans, the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver.

The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for the LORD’s house, the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was on it; and the height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of brass: and like to these had the second pillar with network.

He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.

At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.

For the LORD’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.

But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the LORD’s angel.

David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in Eretz-Israel; and he set masons to cut worked stones to build God’s house.

David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight;