Chapter 3

The Temple was built on Mt. Moriah, at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.  This was where David had seen the Angel of Death after David's sin of counting the people. 

LOOK UP all the references to this mountain.  Is it the same place where Abraham offered Isaac?  Did God ever say that His Temple had to be on this mountain, or did Solomon just pick this for it's historic significance.  It was apparently not where the tent of meeting was set up.  Amazing that the Tent of Meeting was still serviceable after 480 years isn't it...

There are many "extras" here to look into.

The Temple was overlaid on the inside with gold just about everywhere.  Even some of the floors.  Precious stones were set to adorn the walls and there were carvings of cherubim on the walls.  45,000 lbs of gold was used to overlay the interior of the Most Holy Place.

2022 - This verse:

10 In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of wood and overlaid them with gold. [2Ch 3:10 ESV].  Were there no cherubim in the original tabernacle?  Or was it that the previous cherubim were on the lid of the ark, with their wings touching, and this time - in addition to that one since they still had the ark - they were free standing?  These cherubim have their wings touching each other and the wall, and they stand upright.  Perhaps this is to let us know that on the ark, the Cherubim are kneeling.  And I think on the ark the cherubim face each other, with the left wing of one touching the right wing of the other.  Why, I wonder, would Solomon add these two, especially as they were made of wood and overlaid with gold, rather than being entirely of gold?