1 Kings 7:11

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Above were precious stones cut to measure, along with cedar wood.

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  • Eph 2:20-22 : 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone. 21 In Him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 And in Him you too are being built together to become a dwelling place for God in the Spirit.
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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  • 1 Kgs 7:9-10
    2 verses
    88%

    9All these buildings were made from costly stones, cut to size and sawed with a saw, from the foundations to the coping, and from the outside to the great courtyard.

    10The foundation was made of large, costly stones, with some measuring ten cubits and others eight cubits.

  • 1 Kgs 7:12
    87%

    12The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of hewn stone and one row of cedar beams, similar in design to the inner courtyard of the Lord's house and its portico.

  • 1 Kgs 6:15-18
    4 verses
    81%

    15He built the walls of the house on the inside with cedar boards, from the floor of the house to the ceiling, overlaying the interior with wood, and he covered the floor of the house with cypress planks.

    16He built twenty cubits at the rear of the house with cedar boards, from the floor to the walls, to form the inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

    17The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was forty cubits long.

    18The cedar within the house was carved with gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone could be seen.

  • 1 Kgs 6:35-36
    2 verses
    81%

    35He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers on them, and he overlaid the carvings with evenly applied gold.

    36He built the inner courtyard with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.

  • 1 Kgs 5:17-18
    2 verses
    79%

    17You know that my father, David, could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the wars waged against him from all directions until the LORD put his enemies under the soles of his feet.

    18But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary nor misfortune.

  • 1 Kgs 7:2-7
    6 verses
    78%

    2He constructed the House of the Forest of Lebanon, which was one hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, supported by four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams on top of the columns.

    3It was paneled with cedar above the chambers that rested on the forty-five pillars, with fifteen pillars in each row.

    4There were three rows of window frames positioned opposite each other on three levels.

    5All the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames, with openings placed directly opposite each other in three tiers.

    6He made the Hall of Pillars, which was fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of the pillars and a canopy above them.

    7He also made the Hall of the Throne, known as the Hall of Judgment, where he would judge. It was paneled with cedar from the floor to the ceiling.

  • Ezra 6:4
    77%

    4It will have three layers of large stone and one layer of new timber. The cost will be paid from the royal treasury.

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-10
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    76%

    9So he built the house and finished it, and he covered the house with beams and rows of cedar boards.

    10He also built the annex against the entire house, five cubits high, and it was attached to the house with cedar beams.

  • 2 Chr 34:11
    75%

    11They gave it to the craftsmen and builders to buy dressed stones, timber for joists, and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to fall into ruin.

  • 1 Kgs 6:5-7
    3 verses
    75%

    5He built a structure against the wall of the house, enclosing the walls of the house around the main hall and the inner sanctuary, and he made side chambers all around.

    6The lowest side chamber was five cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide. For around the outside of the house, he made offsets on the wall so that the beams would not be embedded in the walls of the house.

    7The house, when it was being built, was constructed of finished stone cut from the quarry, so that no hammer or axe or any iron tool was heard in the house while it was being built.

  • Ezek 41:15-17
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    15He measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the back, along with its galleries on either side, which were one hundred cubits. The interior of the temple and the porches of the courtyard were also measured.

    16The thresholds, the closed windows, and the galleries around the three sides opposite the threshold were paneled with wood all around, completely surrounding from the ground up to the windows, which were covered.

    17From above the entrance to the inner house and on the outside, and on all the walls all around, both inside and out, there were measurements.

  • 2 Chr 3:5-7
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    74%

    5He paneled the main hall with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and he decorated it with palm trees and chains.

    6He adorned the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold used was gold from Parvaim.

    7He overlaid the beams, thresholds, walls, and doors of the house with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    74%

    9I will give your servants, the woodcutters who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand gallons of wine, and twenty thousand gallons of oil.

  • 2 Kgs 12:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11Whenever they saw there was a lot of money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest would come, count the money that had been brought to the temple of the LORD, and put it into bags.

    12They would give the prepared money to the workers appointed to oversee the repairs to the temple of the LORD. They used it to pay the carpenters and builders working on the temple of the LORD,

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    73%

    6the carpenters, builders, and masons. It shall also be used to buy timber and quarried stone for repairing the house.

  • Ezek 41:8
    73%

    8I also saw that the temple had a raised base all around it. This foundation for the side chambers was six cubits high.

  • 1 Chr 22:4
    72%

    4He also supplied cedar logs without number, for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought great quantities of cedar logs to David.

  • 1 Chr 22:2
    72%

    2David commanded the gathering of the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, and he appointed stonecutters to prepare dressed stones to build the house of God.

  • Ezek 41:12
    72%

    12The building facing the courtyard on the west side was seventy cubits wide, and its wall was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.

  • 1 Kgs 7:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35At the top of the stand was a circular band half a cubit high, and the top of the stand had its supports and frames crafted as part of it.

    36He adorned the panels of the stand and its frames with engravings of cherubim, lions, and palm trees according to the space on each, with wreaths surrounding them.

  • Song 1:17
    72%

    17The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are cypress trees.

  • 2 Sam 5:11
    72%

    11Hiram, king of Tyre, sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.

  • Ezek 42:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5The upper chambers were shorter because the galleries took away space from them, compared to the lower and middle tiers of the building.

    6These chambers were arranged in three tiers, but they did not have columns like the columns of the courts. Therefore, they were set back from the lower and middle tiers, starting from the ground.

  • 1 Chr 29:2
    71%

    2So, to the best of my ability, I have made preparations for the house of my God: gold for the gold work, silver for the silver work, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood for the wood, as well as onyx stones, inlaid stones, colored stones, all kinds of precious stones, and marble in abundance.

  • Ezek 41:3
    71%

    3Then he went inside and measured the jambs of the entrance, which were two cubits; the entrance itself was six cubits, and the width of the entrance was seven cubits.

  • 1 Kgs 10:27
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    27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the lowlands.

  • Ezek 41:21
    71%

    21The doorframes of the temple were square, and the appearance of the sanctuary was like the appearance of the Holy Place.

  • 2 Chr 3:15
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    15He made two pillars in front of the temple, thirty-five cubits high each, with a capital of five cubits on top of each.

  • 1 Kgs 6:29
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    29He decorated the walls of the house all around with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, both in the inner and outer rooms.