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chapter 6
1
And it
came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of
Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the reign of
Solomon over Israel, in the month Zio (the same is the second month), he began
to build a house to the Lord.
2 And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord,
was threescore cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and thirty
cubits in height.
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.
4 And he made in the temple oblique windows.
5 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 sides round about.
6 The floor that was underneath, was five cubits in
breadth, and the middle floor was six cubits in breadth, and the third door was
seven cubits in breadth. And he put beams in the house round about on the
outside, that they might not be fastened in the walls of the temple.
7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of
stones hewed and made ready: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any
tool of iron heard in the house when it was in building.
8 The door for the middle side was on the right hand of
the house : and by winding stairs they went up to the middle room, and from the
middle to the third.
9 So he built the house, and finished it: end he
covered the house with roofs of cedar.
10 And he built a floor over all the house five cubits
in height, and he covered the house with timber of cedar.
11 And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying:
12 This house, which thou buildest, if thou wilt walk
in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments, walking
in them, I will fulfil my word to thee which I spoke to David thy father.
13 And I will dwell in the midst of the children of
Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
14 So Solomon built the house and finished it.
15 And he built the walls of the house on the inside,
with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the top of the walls, and
to the roots, he covered it with boards of cedar on the inside: and he covered
the floor of the house with planks of fir.
16 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.
17 And the temple itself before the doors of the oracle
was forty cubits long.
18 And all the house was covered within with cedar,
having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought and carvings
projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could be
seen in the wall at all.
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.
20 Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and
twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered and
overlaid it with most pure gold. And the altar also he covered with cedar.
21 And the house before the oracle he overlaid with
most pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of gold.
22 And there was nothing in the temple that was not
covered with gold: the whole altar of the oracle he covered also with gold.
23 And he made in the oracle two cherubims of olive
tree, of ten cubits in height.
24 One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the
other wing of the cherub was five cubits: that is, in all ten cubits, from the
extremity of one wing to the extremity of the other wing.
26 The second cherub also was ten cubits: and the
measure, and the work was the same in both the cherubims:
26 That is to say, one cherub was ten cubits high, and
in like manner the other cherub.
27 And he set the cherubims in the midst of the inner
temple: and the cherubims stretched forth their wings, and the wing of the one
touched one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall: and
the other wings in the midst of the temple touched one another.
28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
29 And all the walls of the temple round about he
carved with divers figures and carvings: and he made in them cherubims and palm
trees, and divers representations, as it were standing out, and coming forth
from the wall.
30 And the floor of the house he also overlaid with
gold within and without.
31 And in the entrance of the oracle he made little
doors of olive tree, and posts of five corners,
32 And two doors of olive tree: and he carved upon them
figures of cherubims, and figures of palm trees, and carvings very much
projecting: and he overlaid them with gold: and he covered both the cherubims
and the palm trees, and the other things with gold.
33 And he made in the entrance of the temple posts of
olive tree foursquare:
34 And two doors of fir tree, one of each side : and
each door was double, and so opened with folding leaves.
35 And he carved cherubims, and palm trees, and carved
work standing very much out: and he overlaid all with golden plates in square
work by rule.
36 And he built the inner court with three rows of
polished stones, and one row of beams of cedar.
37 In the fourth year was the house of the Lord founded
in the month Zio:
38 And in the eleventh year in the month Bul (which is
the eighth month) the house was finished in all the works thereof, and in all
the appurtenances thereof: and he was seven years in building it.
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