1Ch 29:1-2, 2Ch 2:9, 2Ch 3, Ezr 3:12, Psa 48:2, 50:2, 87:2-3, Eze 24:21 | ESV | STEP | And David the king said to all the assembly , Solomon my son , whom alone God has chosen , is young and inexperienced , and the work is great , for the palace will not be for man but for the Lord God .

1 And David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is ^ayoung and inexperienced, and the work is great, for ^bthe palace will not be for man but for the Lord God. 2 So I have provided for the house of my God, so far as I was able, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, and the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood, besides great quantities of ^conyx and stones for setting, antimony, colored stones, all sorts of precious stones and marble.

2 Chronicles 2:9

9 to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am to build will be great and wonderful.

2 Chronicles 3

Solomon Builds the Temple

1 ^dThen Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem ^eon Mount Moriah, where the Lord ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew lacks the Lord} had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, ^gon the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2 He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign. 3 These are Solomon’s ^hmeasurements ^{▼▼Syriac; Hebrew foundations} for building the house of God: ^jthe length, in cubits ^{▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters} of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. 4 The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, ^{▼▼Compare 1 Kings 6:3; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain} and its height was 120 cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold. 5 ^mThe nave he lined with cypress and covered it with fine gold ⁿand made palms and chains on it. 6 He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold of Parvaim. 7 So he lined the house with gold—its beams, its thresholds, its walls, and its doors— ^oand he carved cherubim on the walls.

8 ^pAnd he made the Most Holy Place. Its length, corresponding to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth was twenty cubits. He overlaid it with 600 talents ^{▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms} of fine gold. 9 The weight of gold for the nails was fifty shekels. ^{▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams} And he overlaid ^sthe upper chambers with gold.

10 ^tIn the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of wood ^{▼▼Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain} and overlaid ^{▼▼Hebrew they overlaid} them with gold. 11 The wings of the cherubim together extended twenty cubits: one wing of the one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub; 12 and of this cherub, one wing, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, also of five cubits, was joined to the wing of the first cherub. 13 The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. The cherubim ^{▼▼Hebrew they} stood on their feet, ^xfacing the nave. 14 ^yAnd he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and he worked cherubim on it.

15 ^zIn front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each. 16 He made chains like a necklace ^{▼▼Hebrew chains in the inner sanctuary} and put them on the tops of the pillars, and he made a hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains. 17 ^abHe set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south, the other on the north; that on the south he called Jachin, and that on the north Boaz.

Ezra 3:12

12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ houses, ^acold men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy,

Psalms 48:2

2 ^adbeautiful in elevation,
is ^aethe joy of all the earth,
Mount Zion, in the far north,
^afthe city of the great King.

Psalms 50:2

2 Out of Zion, ^agthe perfection of beauty,
^ahGod shines forth.

Psalms 87:2-3

2 the Lord ^ailoves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
3 ^ajGlorious things of you are spoken,
O ^akcity of God. Selah

Ezekiel 24:21

21 ‘Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: ^alBehold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the yearning of your soul, and ^amyour sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.