1 Kings 3:2

3:2 Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places,¹ because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the Lord.²

1 Kings 6:5

6:5 He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it.³

1 Kings 6:18-19

6:18 The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible.⁴

6:19 He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord could be placed there.

1 Kings 6:21

6:21 Solomon plated the inside of the temple with gold.⁵ He hung golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary and plated the inner sanctuary⁶ with gold.

1 Kings 6:37

6:37 In the month Ziv⁷ of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign⁸ the foundation was laid for the Lord’s temple.

1 Kings 7:40

7:40 Hiram also made basins, shovels, and bowls. He⁹ finished all the work on the Lord’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon.¹⁰

1 Kings 7:45

7:45 and the pots, shovels, and bowls. All these items King Solomon assigned Hiram to make for the Lord’s temple¹¹ were made from polished bronze.

1 Kings 7:48

7:48 Solomon also made all these items for the Lord’s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence,¹²

1 Kings 8:18

8:18 The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me.¹³

1 Kings 8:27

8:27 “God does not really live on the earth!¹⁴ Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

1 Kings 8:29

8:29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live.¹⁵ May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.¹⁶

1 Kings 8:38

8:38 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help,¹⁷ as they acknowledge their pain¹⁸ and spread out their hands toward this temple,

1 Kings 8:42

8:42 When they hear about your great reputation¹⁹ and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds,²⁰ they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.

1 Kings 9:1

The Lord Gives Solomon a Promise and a Warning

9:1 After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned,²¹

1 Kings 14:26

14:26 He took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made.

1 Kings 14:28

14:28 Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.

1 Kings 15:15

15:15 He brought the holy items that he and his father had made into the Lord’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles.²²

¹sn Offering sacrifices at the high places. The “high places” were places of worship that were naturally or artificially elevated.

²tn Heb “for the name of the Lord.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “to honor the Lord”). The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

³tn Heb “and he built on the wall of the temple an extension all around, the walls of the temple all around, for the main hall and for the holy place, and he made side rooms all around.”

⁴tn Heb “Cedar was inside the temple, carvings of gourds (i.e., gourd-shaped ornaments) and opened flowers; the whole was cedar, no stone was seen.”

⁵tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).

⁶tn Heb “it.”

⁷sn In the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.

⁸tn The words “of Solomon’s reign” are added for clarification. See v. 1.

⁹tn Heb “Hiram.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁰tn Heb “Hiram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of the Lord.”

¹¹tn Heb “which Hiram made for King Solomon [for] the house of the Lord.”

¹²tn Heb “the bread of the face [or presence].” Many recent English versions employ “the bread of the Presence,” although this does not convey much to the modern reader.

sn This bread was viewed as a perpetual offering to God and was regarded as holy. See Lev 24:5-9.

¹³tn Heb “Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart.”

¹⁴tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.

¹⁵tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”

¹⁶tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

¹⁷tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”

¹⁸tn Heb “which they know, each the pain of his heart.”

¹⁹tn Heb “your great name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in the previous verse.

²⁰tn Heb “and your strong hand and your outstretched arm.”

²¹tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he wanted to do.”

²²tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things (into) the house of the Lord, silver, gold, and items.” Instead of “his holy things,” a marginal reading (Qere) in the Hebrew text has “the holy things of [the house of the Lord].”