In the same way he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, only with four-sided pillars. ¹ 

(1:18) ¹  Solomon ordered a temple to be built to honor the Lord, as well as a royal palace for himself. ² 

Then the local people ¹  began to discourage ²  the people of Judah and to dishearten them from building.

For the company of the godless is barren, ¹  and fire ²  consumes the tents of those who accept bribes. ³ 

If ¹  I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; ¹  he has seized a house which he did not build. ² 

Inside I am like wine which has no outlet, ¹  like new wineskins ²  ready to burst!

in order to protect him from times of trouble, ¹  until the wicked are destroyed. ² 

And there are times when I promise to build up and establish ¹  a nation or kingdom.

They set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own ¹  and defiled it.

For the stones in the walls will cry out, and the wooden rafters will answer back. ¹ 

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill cannot be hidden.

In him ¹  the whole building, ²  being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus ¹  for the sake of you Gentiles –

to equip ¹  the saints for the work of ministry, that is, ²  to build up the body of Christ,

“The entire community of the Lord says, ‘Why have you disobeyed the God of Israel by turning back today from following the Lord? You built an altar for yourselves and have rebelled today against the Lord. ¹ 

So Joab’s men ¹  came and laid siege against him in Abel of Beth Maacah. They prepared a siege ramp outside the city which stood against its outer rampart. As all of Joab’s soldiers were trying to break through ²  the wall so that it would collapse,

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky ¹  and worshiped ²  them.

The king tore down the altars the kings of Judah had set up on the roof of Ahaz’s upper room, as well as the altars Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. He crushed them up ¹  and threw the dust in the Kidron Valley.

Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the Lord. ¹  He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel. ²