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1 Kings 9 24
Pharaoh’s daughter moved from the city of David to the house that Solomon had built for her; he then built the terraces.
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2 Samuel 5 7
Yet David did capture the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.
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Ezra 5:11
This is the reply they gave us: We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth and are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.
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1 Kings 11 1
King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women
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1 Chronicles 11 7
Then David took up residence in the stronghold; therefore, it was called the city of David.
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1 Kings 6 1-1 Kings 7 15
Solomon began to build the temple for the Lord in the four hundred eightieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of his reign over Israel, in the second month, in the month of Ziv.The temple that King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.The portico in front of the temple sanctuary was 30 feet long extending across the temple’s width, and 15 feet deep in front of the temple.He also made windows with beveled frames for the temple.He then built a chambered structure along the temple wall, encircling the walls of the temple, that is, the sanctuary and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around.The lowest chamber was 7 1/2 feet wide, the middle was nine feet wide, and the third was 10 1/2 feet wide. He also provided offset ledges for the temple all around the outside so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.The temple’s construction used finished stones cut at the quarry so that no hammer, chisel, or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.The door for the lowest side chamber was on the right side of the temple. They went up a stairway to the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third.When he finished building the temple, he paneled it with boards and planks of cedar.He built the chambers along the entire temple, joined to the temple with cedar beams; each story was 7 1/2 feet high.The word of the Lord came to Solomon:“ As for this temple you are building— if you walk in My statutes, observe My ordinances, and keep all My commands by walking in them, I will fulfill My promise to you, which I made to your father David.I will live among the Israelites and not abandon My people Israel.”When Solomon finished building the temple,he paneled the interior temple walls with cedar boards; from the temple floor to the surface of the ceiling he overlaid the interior with wood. He also overlaid the floor with cypress boards.Then he lined 30 feet of the rear of the temple with cedar boards from the floor to the surface of the ceiling, and he built the interior as an inner sanctuary, the most holy place.The temple, that is, the sanctuary in front of the most holy place, was 60 feet long.The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with ornamental gourds and flower blossoms. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple to put the ark of the Lord’s covenant there.The interior of the sanctuary was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high; he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the cedar altar.Next, Solomon overlaid the interior of the temple with pure gold, and he hung gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary and overlaid it with gold.So he added the gold overlay to the entire temple until everything was completely finished, including the entire altar that belongs to the inner sanctuary.In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim 15 feet high out of olive wood.One wing of the first cherub was 7 1/2 feet long, and the other wing was 7 1/2 feet long. The wingspan was 15 feet from tip to tip.The second cherub also was 15 feet; both cherubim had the same size and shape.The first cherub’s height was 15 feet and so was the second cherub’s.Then he put the cherubim inside the inner temple. Since their wings were spread out, the first one’s wing touched one wall while the second cherub’s wing touched the other wall, and in the middle of the temple their wings were touching wing to wing.He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.He carved all the surrounding temple walls with carved engravings— cherubim, palm trees and flower blossoms— in both the inner and outer sanctuaries.He overlaid the temple floor with gold in both the inner and outer sanctuaries.For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made olive wood doors. The pillars of the doorposts were five-sided.The two doors were made of olive wood. He carved cherubim, palm trees, and flower blossoms on them and overlaid them with gold, hammering gold over the cherubim and palm trees.In the same way, he made four-sided olive wood doorposts for the sanctuary entrance.The two doors were made of cypress wood; the first door had two folding sides, and the second door had two folding panels.He carved cherubim, palm trees, and flower blossoms on them and overlaid them with gold applied evenly over the carving.He built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams.The foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid in Solomon’s fourth year in the month of Ziv.In his eleventh year in the eighth month, in the month of Bul, the temple was completed in every detail and according to every specification. So he built it in seven years.Solomon completed his entire palace complex after 13 years of construction.He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. It was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on top of the pillars.It was paneled above with cedar at the top of the chambers that rested on 45 pillars, 15 per row.There were three rows of window frames, facing each other in three tiers.All the doors and doorposts had rectangular frames, the openings facing each other in three tiers.He made the hall of pillars 75 feet long and 45 feet wide. A portico was in front of the pillars, and a canopy with pillars was in front of them.He made the Hall of the Throne where he would judge— the Hall of Judgment. It was paneled with cedar from the floor to the rafters.Solomon’s own palace where he would live, in the other courtyard behind the hall, was of similar construction. And he made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, his wife.All of these buildings were of costly stones, cut to size and sawed with saws on the inner and outer surfaces, from foundation to coping and from the outside to the great courtyard.The foundation was made of large, costly stones 12 and 15 feet long.Above were also costly stones, cut to size, as well as cedar wood.Around the great courtyard, as well as the inner courtyard of the Lord’s temple and the portico of the temple, were three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams.King Solomon had Hiram brought from Tyre.He was a widow’s son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a bronze craftsman. Hiram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge to do every kind of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.He cast two hollow bronze pillars: each 27 feet high and 18 feet in circumference.
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Ezra 9:14
should we break Your commands again and intermarry with the peoples who commit these detestable practices? Wouldn’t You become so angry with us that You would destroy us, leaving no survivors?
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2 Chronicles 2 1-2 Chronicles 2 4
Solomon decided to build a temple for the name of Yahweh and a royal palace for himself,so he assigned 70,000 men as porters, 80,000 men as stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 as supervisors over them.Then Solomon sent word to King Hiram of Tyre: Do for me what you did for my father David. You sent him cedars to build him a house to live in.Now I am building a temple for the name of Yahweh my God in order to dedicate it to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the rows of the bread of the Presence continuously, and for sacrificing burnt offerings for the morning and the evening, the Sabbaths and the New Moons, and the appointed festivals of the Lord our God. This is ordained for Israel forever.
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2 Chronicles 18 1
Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, and he made an alliance with Ahab through marriage.
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1 Kings 9 15-1 Kings 9 19
This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon had imposed to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the supporting terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He then burned it down, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.Then Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,Baalath, Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,all the storage cities that belonged to Solomon, the chariot cities, the cavalry cities, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, or anywhere else in the land of his dominion.
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2 Chronicles 8 11
Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh from the city of David to the house he had built for her, for he said,“ My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel because the places the ark of the Lord has come into are holy.”
