1 It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the
children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of
Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month,
that he began to build the house of Yahweh. 2 The house which king Solomon
built for Yahweh, the length of it was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it
twenty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 3 The porch
before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length of it, according
to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth of it
before the house. 4 For the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
5 Against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the
walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he
made side-chambers round about. 6 The nethermost story was five cubits
broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits
broad; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house
round about, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the
house. 7 The house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready
at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron
heard in the house, while it was in building. 8 The door for the middle
side- chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by
winding stairs into the middle story, and out of the middle into the
third. 9 So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house
with beams and planks of cedar. 10 He built the stories against all the
house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of
cedar. 11 The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying, 12 Concerning
this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and
execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then
will I establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
13 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my
people Israel. 14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it. 15 He
built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of
the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with
wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir. 16 He
built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from
the floor to the walls of the ceiling: he built them for it
within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place. 17 The house, that
is, the temple before the oracle, was forty cubits long.
18 There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers:
all was cedar; there was no stone seen. 19 He prepared an oracle in the
midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.
20 Within the oracle was a space of twenty cubits in length, and
twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height of it; and he
overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar. 21 So
Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold
across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. 22 The whole house
he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar
that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold. 23 In the oracle he
made two cherubim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high. 24 Five cubits was
the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub:
from the uttermost part of the one wing to the uttermost part of the other
were ten cubits. 25 The other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim
were of one measure and one form. 26 The height of the one cherub was ten
cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. 27 He set the cherubim within
the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, so that
the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub
touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of
the house. 28 He overlaid the cherubim with gold. 29 He carved all the
walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees
and open flowers, inside and outside. 30 The floor of the house he
overlaid with gold, inside and outside. 31 For the entrance of the oracle
he made doors of olive-wood: the lintel and door-posts were a fifth
part of the wall. 32 So he made two doors of olive-wood;
and he carved on them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers,
and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim, and on
the palm trees. 33 So also made he for the entrance of the temple
door-posts of olive-wood, out of a fourth part of the wall; 34 and
two doors of fir-wood: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the
two leaves of the other door were folding. 35 He carved thereon
cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold
fitted on the engraved work. 36 He built the inner court with three
courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams. 37 In the fourth year
was the foundation of the house of Yahweh laid, in the month Ziv. 38 In
the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house
finished throughout all the parts of it, and according to all the fashion of
it. So was he seven years in building it.
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