1 Chronicles 28:11
Good News Translation
David gave Solomon the plans for all the Temple buildings, for the storerooms and all the other rooms, and for the Most Holy Place, where sins are forgiven.

New Revised Standard Version
Then David gave his son Solomon the plan of the vestibule of the temple, and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, and its inner chambers, and of the room for the mercy seat;

Contemporary English Version
After David finished speaking, he gave Solomon the plans for building the main rooms of the temple, including the porch, the storerooms, the rooms upstairs and downstairs, as well as the most holy place.

New American Bible
Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the portico and of the house itself, with its storerooms, its upper rooms and inner chambers, and the shrine containing the cover of the ark.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David gave to Solomon his son a description of the porch, and of the temple, and of the treasures, and of the upper floor, and of the inner chambers, and of the house for the mercy seat,

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And David gave to Solomon his son a description of the porch, and of the temple, and of the treasures, and of the upper floor, and of the inner chambers, and of the house for the mercy seat,

1 Chronicles 28:12,19 As also of all the courts, which he had in his thought, and of the chambers round about, for the treasures of the house of the Lord, and for the treasures of the consecrated things, . . .

) just as Moses had received the plan of the tabernacle.

the pattern

1 Chronicles 28:19 All these things, said he, came to me written by the hand of the Lord that I might understand all the works of the pattern.

Exodus 25:40 Look, and make it according to the pattern that was shewn thee in the mount.

Exodus 26:30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the pattern that was shewn thee in the mount.

Exodus 39:42,43 The children of Israel offered, as the Lord had commanded. . . .

2 Chronicles 3:3 Now these are the foundations, which Solomon laid, to build the house of God, the length by the first measure sixty cubits, the breadth twenty cubits.

Ezekiel 43:10,11 But thou, son of man, shew to the house of Israel the temple, and let them be ashamed of their iniquities, and let them measure the building: . . .

Hebrews 8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things. As it was answered to Moses, when he was to finish the tabernacle: See (saith he) that thou make all things according to the pattern which was shewn thee on the mount.

the porch

1 Kings 6:3 And there was a porch before the temple, of twenty cubits in length, according to the measure of the breadth of the temple: and it was ten cubits in breadth, before the face of the temple.

2 Chronicles 3:4 And the porch in the front, which was extended in length according to the measure of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits: and the height was a hundred and twenty cubits: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

Ezekiel 40:8,9,15,48,49 And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within, was one reed. . . .

the houses

1 Kings 6:16-20 And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at the hinder part of the temple, from the floor to the top: and made the inner house of the oracle to be the holy of holies. . . .

2 Chronicles 3:5-10 And the greater house he ceiled with deal boards, and overlaid them with plates of fine gold throughout: and he graved in them palm trees, and like little chains interlaced with one another. . . .

Ezekiel 41:13 And he measured the length of the house, a hundred cubits: and the separate building, and the walls thereof, a hundred cubits in length.

Hebrews 9:2-8 For there was a tabernacle made the first, wherein were the candlesticks and the table and the setting forth of loaves, which is called the Holy. . . .

1 Chronicles 9:26-29 To these four Levites were committed the whole number of the porters, and they were over the chambers, and treasures, of the house of the Lord. . . .

1 Chronicles 26:20-27 Now Achias was over the treasures of the house of God, and the holy vessels. . . .

Luke 21:1 And looking on, he saw the rich men cast their gifts into the treasury.

upper chambers

1 Kings 6:5,6,10 And upon the wall of the temple, he built floors round about, in the walls of the house, round about the temple and the oracle, and he made chambers in the sides round about. . . .

2 Chronicles 3:9 He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty sicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.

Nehemiah 10:38,39 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites in the tithes of the Levites, and the Levites shall offer the tithe of their tithes in the house of our God, to the storeroom into the treasure house. . . .

Nehemiah 13:5 And he made him a great storeroom, where before him they laid up gifts, and frankincense, and vessels, and the tithes of the corn, of the wine, and of the oil, the portions of the Levites, and of the singing men, and of the porters, and the firstfruits of the priests.

Jeremiah 35:2 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 of the treasures, and thou shalt give them wine to drink.

Ezekiel 41:6 And the side chambers one by another, were twice thirty-three: and they bore outwards, that they might enter in through the wall of the house in the sides round about, to hold in, and not to touch the wall of the temple.

the place

Exodus 25:17-22 Thou shalt make also a propitiatory of the purest gold: the length thereof shall be two cubits and a half, and the breadth a cubit and a half. . . .

Exodus 40:20,21 And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars underneath, and the oracle above. . . .

1 Kings 6:19 And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner part, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 5:7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into its place, that is, to the oracle of the temple, into the holy of holies under the wings of the cherubims:

Hebrews 9:5 And over it were the cherubims of glory overshadowing the propitiatory: of which it is not needful to speak now particularly.

Context
The Plans for the Temple
11And David gave to Solomon his son a description of the porch, and of the temple, and of the treasures, and of the upper floor, and of the inner chambers, and of the house for the mercy seat,12As also of all the courts, which he had in his thought, and of the chambers round about, for the treasures of the house of the Lord, and for the treasures of the consecrated things,…
Cross References
Exodus 25:17
Thou shalt make also a propitiatory of the purest gold: the length thereof shall be two cubits and a half, and the breadth a cubit and a half.

Exodus 25:40
Look, and make it according to the pattern that was shewn thee in the mount.

1 Kings 6:3
And there was a porch before the temple, of twenty cubits in length, according to the measure of the breadth of the temple: and it was ten cubits in breadth, before the face of the temple.

1 Chronicles 28:12
As also of all the courts, which he had in his thought, and of the chambers round about, for the treasures of the house of the Lord, and for the treasures of the consecrated things,

1 Chronicles 28:19
All these things, said he, came to me written by the hand of the Lord that I might understand all the works of the pattern.

2 Chronicles 3:9
He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty sicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.

1 Chronicles 28:10
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