Thursday, May 13, 2010

Temple

Solomon sent this message to Hiram king of Tyre:
"Send me cedar logs as you did for my father David when you sent him cedar to build a palace to live in. Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of Yahweh my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening and on Sabbaths and New Moons and at the appointed feasts of Yahweh our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel."

"The temple I am going to build will be great, because our God is greater than all other gods. But who is able to build a temple for him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain him? Who then am I to build a temple for him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before him?"

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, [...] , he began to build the temple of Yahweh.

... the temple was finished in all of its details according to its specifications. He had spent seven years building it.


2 Chronicles 2: 3-5 NIV
1 Kings 6:1, 38 NIV

"Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body"

...το σωμα υμων ναος του εν υμιν αγιου πνευματος εστιν...

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 NIV

[cedar/pine/juniper logs, gold, silver, bronze, iron, purple/crimson/blue yarn, engraving, dressed quarry stone, palm tree and chain designs, precious stones, ceiling beams, door frames, walls, doors, carved gourds & open flowers, clerestory windows, side rooms, offset ledges, three stories, inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place, gold overlay, gold chains, gold nails, fine linen with cherubim worked into it, panels, planks, olive wood doors, five-sided jambs, beaten gold overlay, four sided jambs, carved cherubim, pillars, capitals, pomegranates, portico, lilies, golden altar, the Sea, figures of bulls, bronze movable stands with lions, bulls, cherubim on their panels, hammered wreaths, basins, bronze wheels & axles, dressed stone inner courtyard, trimmed cedar beams, shovels, sprinkling bowls, pots, burnished bronze, golden table, gold lampstands, gold doors & sockets, burnt offerings, divisions of priests and Levite assistants (duties, praise, gatekeepers, treasuries). 30,000 Israelite laborers + 153,600 alien workers].

[my body]

[both a dwelling place for your Holy Spirit - help me comprehend & appreciate]

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