the pure gold lampstands at the entrance to the inner sanctuary (five on the right and five on the left), the gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs,

Each cherub stood 15 feet high.

Each stand had four supports, one per side projecting out from the stand.

After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and the royal palace,

However, for your father David’s sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son’s hand instead.

Just then a prophet from Judah, sent by the Lord, arrived in Bethel, as Jeroboam was standing near the altar ready to offer a sacrifice.

Once the priests left the holy place, a cloud filled the Lord’s temple.

the food in his banquet hall, his servants and attendants, their robes, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he presented in the Lord’s temple, she was amazed.

So Israel has been in rebellion against the Davidic dynasty to this very day.

He fashioned two bronze pillars; each pillar was 27 feet high and 18 feet in circumference.

Then the king turned around and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there.

He built temples on the high places and appointed as priests people who were not Levites.

Then Jehoshaphat added, “First seek an oracle from the Lord.”

When all Israel’s elders had arrived, the priests lifted the ark.

The Lord answered Elijah’s prayer; the boy’s breath returned to him and he lived.

and the pots, shovels, and bowls. All these items King Solomon assigned Hiram to make for the Lord’s temple were made from polished bronze.

Pharaoh liked Hadad so well he gave him his sister-in-law (Queen Tahpenes’ sister) as a wife.

On all the walls around the temple, inside and out, he carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom.

The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a prophet and that the Lord really does speak through you.”

By royal order they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple’s foundation with chiseled stone.