1 Chronicles 28:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,

The houses

The treasuries

Luke 21:1

Upper chambers

The place

Hebrews 9:5

General references

Exodus 37:6

1 Kings 6:3

Bible References

The houses

He built twenty cubits on the rear part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling; he built them for it on the inside as an inner sanctuary, even as the most holy place.

He overlaid the main room with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.

Then he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; the separate area with the building and its walls were also a hundred cubits long.

For there was a tabernacle prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the sacred bread; this is called the holy place.

The treasuries

And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury.

Upper chambers

Against the wall of the house he built stories encompassing the walls of the house around both the nave and the inner sanctuary; thus he made side chambers all around.

The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

The priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive tithes, and the Levites shall bring up the tenth of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of the storehouse.

had prepared a large room for him, where formerly they put the grain offerings, the frankincense, the utensils and the tithes of grain, wine and oil prescribed for the Levites, the singers and the gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.

“Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.”

The side chambers were in three stories, one above another, and thirty in each story; and the side chambers extended to the wall which stood on their inward side all around, that they might be fastened, and not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.

The place

“You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

Then he took the testimony and put it into the ark, and attached the poles to the ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the ark.

Then he prepared an inner sanctuary within the house in order to place there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubim.

and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat; but of these things we cannot now speak in detail.

General references

He made a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

The porch in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits in length, corresponding to the width of the house, and its depth along the front of the house was ten cubits.