The document discusses the history of the Temple in Jerusalem across multiple sections. It begins by describing how God instructed King David to prepare materials for building the Temple, even though David's son Solomon would actually construct it. David purchased a threshing floor from Ornan on Mount Moriah, the site where God later appeared to David and where Solomon would build the Temple. The document then outlines the subsequent construction of the Temple by Solomon and later events involving the Temple through Roman times.

1. THE TEMPLE
The Biography of a Place

2. THE TEMPLE
• Introduction and Picking the Place
• David Prepares the Materials
• Solomon’s Dedication
• Ahaz and Hezekiah
• The Glory Departs and Destruction
• Haggai and the Second Temple
• Herod’s Temple
• Jesus in the Temple
• Today and the Future Temple

3. THE TEMPLE
• Introduction and Picking the Place
• David Prepares the Materials
• Solomon’s Dedication
• Ahaz and Hezekiah
• The Glory Departs and Destruction
• Haggai and the Second Temple
• Herod’s Temple
• Jesus in the Temple
• Today and the Future Temple

4. THE TEMPLE
• Introduction and Picking the Place
• David Prepares the Materials
• Solomon’s Dedication
• Ahaz and Hezekiah
• The Glory Departs and Destruction
• Haggai and the Second Temple
• Herod’s Temple
• Jesus in the Temple
• Today and the Future Temple

5. THE TEMPLE
• Introduction and Picking the Place
• David Prepares the Materials
• Solomon’s Dedication
• Ahaz and Hezekiah
• The Glory Departs and Destruction
• Haggai and the Second Temple
• Herod’s Temple
• Jesus in the Temple
• Today and the Future Temple

6. THE TEMPLE
• Introduction and Picking the Place
• David Prepares the Materials
• Solomon’s Dedication
• Ahaz and Hezekiah
• The Glory Departs and Destruction
• Haggai and the Second Temple
• Herod’s Temple
• Jesus in the Temple
• Today and the Future Temple

7. THE TEMPLE
Part 1: Picking the Place

8. Go and tell My servant David, ‘Thus says the
Lord: “Would you build a house for Me to
dwell in? For I have not dwelt in a house
since the time that I brought the children of
Israel up from Egypt, even to this day, but
have moved about in a tent and in a
tabernacle. Wherever I have moved about
with all the children of Israel, have I ever
spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of
Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My
people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not
built Me a house of cedar?’”
II Samuel 7: 5 - 7

9. ‘Who is left among you who saw this temple
in its former glory? … In comparison with it,
is this not in your eyes as nothing? … I will
fill this temple with glory,’ says the Lord of
hosts. ‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is
Mine,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘The glory of
this latter temple shall be greater than the
former,’ says the Lord of hosts.
Haggai 2: 3 - 9
See! Your house is left to you desolate.
Matthew 23: 38

10. So the Jews answered …“What sign do
You show to us, …?” Jesus answered and
said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in
three days I will raise it up.” Then the
Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to
build this temple, and will You raise it up
in three days?” But He was speaking of
the temple of His body. Therefore, when
He had risen from the dead, His disciples
remembered that He had said this…
John 2: 18 - 22

11. Or do you not know that your body is the temple
of the Holy Spirit who is in you…? Therefore
glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which
are God’s.
II Corinthians 6: 19, 20
Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and
foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and
members of the household of God, having been
built on the foundation of the apostles and
prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief
cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being
fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the
Lord, in whom you also are being built together
for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
Ephesians 2: 19 - 22

14. Jerusalem

15. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised
In the city of our God,
In His holy mountain.
Beautiful in elevation,
The joy of the whole earth,
Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north,
The city of the great King.
Psalm 48: 1, 2

16. Now it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the
mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on
the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above
the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. Many
people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up
to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God
of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, and we shall
walk in His paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word
of the Lord from Jerusalem. …
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and
their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not
lift up sword against nation, neither shall they
learn war anymore.
Isaiah 2: 2 - 4

18. Now Solomon began to build the house of the
Lord at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the
Lord had appeared to his father David, at the
place that David had prepared on the
threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. And he
began to build on the second day of the second
month in the fourth year of his reign.
II Chronicles 3: 1, 2
Mount of Olives
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20. Then King David said to Ornan, “No,
but I will surely buy it for the full
price, for I will not take what is yours
for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings
with that which costs me nothing.”
I Chronicles 21: 24

21. At that time, when David saw that the Lord
had answered him on the threshing floor of
Ornan the Jebusite, he … said, “This is the
house of the Lord God, and this is the altar
of burnt offering for Israel.”
I Chronicles 21: 28; 22: 1
Now Solomon began to build the house of
the Lord at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah,
where the Lord had appeared to his father
David, at the place that David had
prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan
the Jebusite.
II Chronicles 3: 1, 2

22. THE TEMPLE
Part 2: David Prepares the Materials