and Johanan became the father of Azariah (it was he who was priest in the house (temple) which Solomon built in Jerusalem)

Now the first [of the returned exiles] who lived [again] in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim (temple servants).

Now these are the singers, heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites, living in the temple chambers, free from other service because they were on duty day and night.

They put Saul’s armor in the house of their gods and nailed up his head in the house (temple) of Dagon.

Moreover, David and the commanders of the army selected for the [temple] service some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with lyres, harps, and cymbals. The list of the musicians who performed their service was as follows:

At the colonnade on the west side [of the outer court of the temple] there were four at the road and two at the colonnade.

Then David gave to his son Solomon the plan for the porch of the temple, its buildings, its treasuries, its upper chambers, its inner rooms, and for the place for the [ark and its] mercy seat;