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And it came to pass 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 YHWH.
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And the house which king Solomon built for YHWH, its length was threescore
cubits, and its breadth twenty [cubits], and its height thirty cubits.
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And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was its length,
according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits was its breadth before
the house.
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And for the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
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And 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.
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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.
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And 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.
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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.
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So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks
of cedar.
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And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested
on the house with timber of cedar.
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And the word of YHWH came to Solomon, saying,
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Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and
execute mine 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.
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And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
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So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
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And 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.
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And 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.
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And the house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].
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And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was
cedar; there was no stone seen.
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And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of
the covenant of YHWH.
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And within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits
in breadth, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure
gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.
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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.
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And 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.
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And in the oracle he made two cherubim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high.
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And 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.
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And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one
form.
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The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
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And 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.
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And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
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And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim
and palm-trees and open flowers, within and without.
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And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
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And for the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive-wood: the lintel [and] door-posts
were a fifth part [of the wall].
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So [he made] two doors of olive-wood; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubim
and palm-trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold
upon the cherubim, and upon the palm-trees.
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So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-posts of olive-wood, out of a
fourth part [of the wall];
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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.
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And he carved [thereon] cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid
them with gold fitted upon the graven work.
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And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar
beams.
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In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of YHWH laid, in the month Ziv.
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And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house
finished throughout all its parts, and according to all the fashion of it.
So was he seven years in building it.