AND, FINALLY, AT GIDEON. 1 Chron. xvi, 39. And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD, in the high place that

was an hundred and thirty shekels, | twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons | hallowed bread: for there was no of gold; Each charger of silver bread there but the show bread. weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundredshekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary. The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and

twenty shekels. All the oxen for
the burnt offering were twelve
bullocks, the rams twelve, the
lambs of the first year twelve,
with their meat-offering; and the
kids of the goats for sin-offering
twelve. And all the oxen, for the
sacrifice of the peace-offerings,
were twenty and four bullocks,
the rams sixty, the he-goats sixty,
the lambs of the first year sixty.
This was the dedication of the
altar, after that it was anointed.

TABERNACLE SET UP AT

one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary,
both of them full of fine flour
mingled with oil, for a meat-offer-
ing: One golden spoon of ten
shekels, full of incense: One
young bullock, one ram, one lamb
of the first year, for a burnt-offer-
ing: One kid of the goats for a
sin-offering: And for a sacrifice
of peace-offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five he-goats, five lambs of
the first year. This was the offer-
ing of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
On the tenth day Ahiezer the son
of Ammishaddai, prince of the
children of Dan, offered. His
offering was one silver charger,
the weight whereof was an hun
dred and thirty shekels, one silver
bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary, both of
them full of fine flour mingled
with oil, for a meat-offering: One
golden spoon of ten shekels, full of
incense: One young bullock, one
ram, one lamb of the first year,
for a burnt-offering: One kid of
the goats for a sin-offering: And
for a sacrifice of peace-offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five he-goats,
five lambs of the first year. This
was the offering of Ahiezer the
son of Ammishaddai. On the
eleventh day Pagiel the son of
Ocran, prince of the children of
Asher, offered. His offering was
one silver charger, the weight
whereof was an hundred and
thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel
of the sanctuary, both of them Num. x, 11, 12. And it came to
full of fine flour mingled with oil, pass on the twentieth day of the
for a meat-offering: One golden second month, in the second year,
spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: that the clond was taken up from
One young bullock, one ram, one off the tabernacle of the testimony.
lamb of the first year, for a burnt-And the children of Israel took
offering: One kid of the goats for their journeys out of the wilder-
a sin-offering: And for a sacri-ness of Sinai; and the clond rested
fice of peace-offerings, two oxen, in the wilderness of Paran.
five rams, five he-goats, five lambs
of the first year. This was the
offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.
On the twelfth day Ahira the son

of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali, offered. His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil, for

meat offering: One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year. for a burnt-offering: One kid of the goats for a sin-offering: And for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan. This was the dedication of the altar (in the day when it was anointed) by the princes of Israel; twelve chargers of silver,

SINAI.

Exod. xl, 17--19. And it came to pass, in the first month, in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up. And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars. And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses.

AT GILGAL.

was at Gibeon.

1 Chron. xxl, 29. For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt-offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.

IL-TEMPLE.

1.-DAVID'S INTENTION TO BUILD THE TEMPLE. 2 Sam. vii, 1-3, 5-7. And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies, That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains. And Nathan said to the king, Go. do all that is in thine heart; for the LORD is with thee. Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in? Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. In all the places wherein I have walked

with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, sayng, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?

1 Kings viii, 16-18. Since the day that I brought forth my peo ple Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of 18rael to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel. And it was in the heart of David my father to build an

house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an

Josh. v, 10, 11. And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the four teenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho. And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the pass-house unto my name, thou didst unleavened cakes over, parched corn in the self-same well that it was in thine heart. day.

AT SHILOH.

and

Josh. xviii, 1. And the whole
congregation of the children of
together at
Israel assembled
Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle
of the congregation there: and the
land was subdued before them.

AT NOB.

1 Sam. xxi, 1, 6. Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest... So the priest gave him

1 Chron. xxii, 5, 7. And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fanie and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death. And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God.

1 Chron. xxviii, 2, 3. Then David

Ing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.

1 Chron. xxii, 1. Then David said. This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt-offering for Israel.

2 Chron. iii, 1. Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2 Chron. xx, 8. And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying.

Ps. lxviii, 16. Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.

house, that is, the temple before it;
was forty cubits long. And the
cedar of the house within was
carved with knops and open
flowers: all was cedar; there was
no stone seen. And the whole
he had finished all the house: also
house he overlaid with gold, until
the whole altar that was by the
the floor of the house he overlaid
oracle he overlaid with gold. Aud
with gold, within and without.

2 Chron. iii, 3-7. 9. Now these
are the things wherein Solomon
was instructed for the building of
the house of God. The length by
cubits after the first measure was
threescore cubits, and the breadth
twenty cubits. And the porch
that was in the front of the house,
the length of it was according to
the breadth of the house, twenty
cubits, and the height was an hun
dred and twenty: and he overlaid
greater house he ceiled with fir-
it within with pure gold. And the

Ps. lxxvi, 1, 2. In Judah is God known; his name is great in Israel. In Salem also is his taber-tree, which he overlaid with fine nacle, and his dwelling-place in

and chains. And he garnished gold, and set thereon palm-trees Zion. the house with precious stones for Ps. Ixxviii, 67-69. Moreover, hebeauty: and the gold was gold of refused the tabernacle of Joseph, Parvaim. and chose not the tribe of Eph-house, the beams, the posts, and He overlaid also the raim; But chose the tribe of Judah, the walls thereof, and the doors the mount Zion, which he loved. thereof, with gold; and graved And he built his sanctuary like cherubims on the walls. And the high palaces, like the earth which weight of the nails he hath established for ever. was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

Ps. cxxxii, 6. Lo, we heard of it at Ephratali; we found it in the fields of the wood.

DOORS.

1 Kings vi, 31-34. Ezekiel xli, 8. I saw also the entering of the oracle he made And for the height of the house round about: doors of olive-tree: the lintel and the foundations of the side-cham-side-posts were a fifth part of the bers were a full reed of six great cubits.

Rev. xl, 1. And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship

therein.

2.-ITS DIMENSIONS AND MATERIALS.

wall. The two doors also were of olive-tree;and he carved uponthem carvings of cherubims, and palmtrees, and open flowers, and over laid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and made he for the door of the temupon the palm trees. So also ple posts of olive-tree, a fourth part of the wall. And the two doors were of fir-tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the

and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

PILLARS.

42. For he cast two pillars of 1 Kings vii, 15--22, 27--37, 41, brass, of eighteen cubits high did compass either of them about. apiece: and a line of twelve cubits And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits: And nets of checker-work, and wreaths of chain-work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter. And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one that were upon the top with pomenet-work, to cover the chapiters granates: and so did he for the that were upon the top of the pilother chapiter. And the chapiters lars were of lily-work in the porch, four cubits. And the chapiters granates also above, over against upon the two pillars had pomethe belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows round about upon the other chapiter. And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof pillars was lily-work: so was the Boaz. And upon the top of the work of the pillars finished. And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it. And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the were between the ledges were ledges: And on the borders that lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work. And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass; and the four corners

threescore cubits, WINDOWS, STAIRCASE, AND thereof had undersetters: under

COURTS.

1 Kings vi, 2, 3, 15, 17, 18, 22, 30. And the house which king Solo-other door were folding. mon built for the LORD, the length thereof was and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof. thirty cubits. And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house. And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with plauks of fir. And the

1 Kings vi, 4, 8, 36. And for the house he made windows of narrow lights. The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house; and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle, into the third. And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedarbeams.

2 Chron. iv, 9. Furthermore he made the court of the priests, 699

the laver were undersetters molAnd the mouth of it, within the ten, at the sides of every addition. chapiter and above, was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round, after the work of the base, a cubit and an half; and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, four-square, not round.

were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit. And the work of the wheels was like

And under the borders

the work of a chariot-wheel: their axle-trees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes,

LAMPS, &c.

sticks of pure gold, five on the
1 Kings vii, 49. And the candle-

they drew out the stares of the ark, that the ends of the staves

were seen from the ark before the without. And there it is unto

were all molten. And there were right side, and five on the left, be- / oracle, but they were not seen

fore the oracle, with the flowers.
and the lamps, and the tongs, of
gold.

2 Chron. iv, 7, 20, 21. And he made
ten candlesticks of gold, according
to their form, and set them in the
temple, five on the right hand,
and five on the left. Moreover,
the candlesticks with their lamps,
that they should burn after the

manner before the oracle, of pure
gold; And the flowers, and the
lamps, and the tongs, made he of
gold, and that perfect gold.

this day.

2 Chron. Xxxv, 3. And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel.

which Solomon the son of David

Heb. ix, 3. And after the second vell, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all.

four undersetters to the four cor-
ners of one base: and the under-
setters were of the very base
itself. And in the top of the base
was there a round compass of half
a cubit high; and on the top of the
base, the ledges thereof, and the
borders thereof, were of the same.
For on the plates of the ledges
thereof, and on the borders there-
of, he graved cherubims, lions, and
palm trees, according to the pro-
portion of every one, and additions
round about. After this manner
he made the ten bases: all of them
had one casting, one measure, and
THE HOLY OF HOLIES.
one size. The two pillars, and the
two bowls of the chapiters that 1 Kings vi, 16, 19-21. And he
were on the top of the two pillars; built twenty cubits on the sides of
and the two net-works, to cover the house, both the floor and the
the two bowls of the chapiters walls with boards of cedar: he
which were upon the top of the even built them for it withir, even
pillars: And four hundred pome-for the oracle, evenfor the most holy
granates for the two net-works, place. And the oracle he prepared
even two rows of pomegranates in the house within, to set there
for one net-work, to cover the two the ark of the covenant of the
bowls of the chapiters that were
LORD. And the oracle in the fore-cubits.
upon the pillars.
part was twenty cubits in length,
and twenty cubits in breadth, and
2 Kings xxv, 17. The height of twenty cubits in the height there-
the one pillar icas eighteen cubits, of: and he overlaid it with pure
and the chapiter upon it was gold, and so covered the altar
brass: and the height of the chapi- which was of cedar. So Solomon
ter three cubits; and the wreathen-overlaid the house withinwith pure
work, and pomegranates upon the
chapiter round about, all of brass:
and like unto these had the second
pillar with wreathen-work.

gold: and he made a partition by
the chains of gold before the oracle;
and he overlaid it with gold.

1 Kings viii, 6, 7, 8, 21. And the Jer. lii, 21. 22. And concerning priests brought in the ark of the the pillars, the height of one pil- covenant of the LORD unto his lar was eighteen cubits; and a fil-place, into the oracle of the house, let of twelve cubits did compass to the most holy place, even under it; and the thickness thereof was the wings of the cherubims. For four fingers: it was hollow. And the cherubims spread forth their a chapiter of brass was upon it; two wings over the place of the and the height of one chapiter was ark,and the cherubims covered the five cubits, with net-work and ark and the staves thereof above. pomegranates upon the chapiters And they drew out the staves, that round about, all of brass: the the ends of the staves were seen second pillar also and the pome out in the holy place before the granates were like unto these. oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day. And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

CHAMBERS.

1 Kings vi, 5, 6, 10. And against the wall of the house be built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about. The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the bears should not be fastened in

the walls of the house. And then he built chambers against all the house five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

2 Chron. ill, 8. And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

2 Chron. v, 7, 9. And the priests brought in the ark of the cove nant of the LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims. And

THE CHERUBIM.

1 Kings vi, 23-29, 35. And within the oracle he made two cherobims of olive tree, each ten entita high. And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other cere ten

And the other cherab was ten cubits: both the chert bims were of one measure and cas size. The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so 183 it of the other cherub. And be set the cherubims within the inner house; and they stretched forth the wings of the cherutims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house. And he overlaid the And be cherubims with gold. carved all the walls of the bonse round about with carved figures of cherubims, and palm-trees and open flowers, within and without And he carved thereon chernbias and palm-trees, aud open flowers and covered them with gold fitti upon the carved work.

2 Chron. iii, 10-13. And in the most holy house he made twe cherubims of image-work, 201 overlaid them with gold. Ap the wings of the cherubims twenty cubits long, one wing of the one cherub was five cutis, reaching to the wall of the boost and the other wing was likerie five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. And t wing of the other cherub sous ve cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing 10 five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub. The wings of these cherubims spread

and they stood on their feet, and themselves forth twenty cubits their faces were inward.

2 Chron. v, 8. For the chern bims spread forth their wing

1 Kings viii, 64. The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat-salem?