1 Kings 6
The construction of the Lord's house began in the fourth year of Solomon's reign, with the house measuring 60 cubits in length, 20 cubits in width, and 30 cubits in height. The house was built with cut and finished stones, with no iron tools used during its construction, and was overlaid with cedar wood. The interior walls were covered with cedar panels, and the floor was overlaid with spruce wood. The oracle, or Holy of Holies, was built with cedar panels and covered in gold, and two cherubim made of olive wood were stationed inside, with their wings touching the walls. The entire house was completed in seven years, with all its works and equipment finished in the eleventh year of Solomon's reign.
1Then it happened that, in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel departed from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, the house of the Lord began to be built2Now the house, which king Solomon was building to the Lord, was sixty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and thirty cubits in height3And a portico was before the temple, of twenty cubits in length, in accord with the measure of the width of the temple. And it had ten cubits of width before the face of the temple4And he made oblique windows in the temple5And upon the wall of the temple, he built panels on all sides, in the walls of the house around the temple and the oracle. And he made side chambers all around6The flooring on the bottom level held five cubits in width, and the middle floor was six cubits in width, and the third floor held seven cubits in width. Then he positioned beams on the house all around the outside, in such a way that they would not be fastened to the walls of the temple7Now the house, while it was being built, was made from cut and finished stones. And so, neither mallet, nor chisel, nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built8The door at the side of the middle section was to the right of the house. And they would ascend along winding stairs to the middle level, and from the middle level to the third level9And he built the house, and finished it. And he overlaid the house with boards of cedar10And he built a paneling over the entire house, five cubits in height, and he covered the house with cedar wood11And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying12"Concerning this house, which you are building: if you will walk in my precepts, and carry out my judgments, and keep all my commandments, advancing by them, I will confirm my word to you, which I spoke to your father David13And I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel.14And so, Solomon built the house, and finished it15And he built the walls of the house, on the interior, with panels of cedar, from the floor of the house, to the top of the walls, and even to the ceiling. He covered it with cedar wood on the interior. And he overlaid the floor of the house with panels of spruce16And he built panels of cedar, of twenty cubits, at the back part of the temple, from the floor even to the top. And he made the inner house of the oracle as the Holy of Holies17And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits18And the entire house was clothed with cedar on the interior, having its turnings and junctures artfully wrought, with carvings projecting outward. Everything was clothed with panels of cedar. And no stone at all was able to be seen in the wall19Now he made the oracle in the middle of the house, in the inner part, so that he might station the ark of the covenant of the Lord there20And the oracle held twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered and clothed it with the purest gold. Then, too, he clothed the altar in cedar21Also, the house before the oracle, he covered with the purest gold, and he fastened the plates with nails of gold22And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with gold. Moreover, the entire altar of the oracle he overlaid with gold23And he made in the oracle two cherubim from wood of the olive tree, of ten cubits in height24One wing of a cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of a cherub was five cubits, that is, having ten cubits from the summit of one wing even to the summit of the other wing25Likewise, the second cherub was ten cubits. And the measure was equal and the work was one, in the two cherubim26that is, one cherub had a height of ten cubits, and similarly the second cherub27And he stationed the cherubim in the middle of the inner temple. And the cherubim extended their wings, and the wing of the one was touching the wall, and the wing of the second cherub was touching the other wall. But the other wings, in the middle of the temple, were touching each another28He also overlaid the cherubim with gold29And all the walls of the temple all around he engraved with diverse carvings and turnings. And he made in them cherubim, and palm trees, and various images, as if these were projecting out, and going forth from, the wall30Then, too, the floor of the house he overlaid with gold within and without31And at the entrance of the oracle, he made little doors, from wood of the olive tree, with posts of five corners32And there were two doors, from wood of the olive tree. And he carved upon them pictures of cherubim, and images of palm trees, and very prominent figures. And he overlaid these with gold. And he covered the cherubim, as well as the palm trees and the other things, with gold33And he made, at the entrance of the temple, posts from wood of the olive tree, with four corners34and two doors, from wood of the spruce tree, on the other side. And each door was double, and so it opened by folding upon itself35And he carved cherubim, and palm trees, and very prominent engravings. And he covered everything with gold plates, worked to be perfectly square36And he built the inner atrium with three rows of polished stones, and one row of cedar wood37In the fourth year, the house of the Lord was founded, in the month of Ziv38And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was perfected in all its works and in all its equipment. And he built it for seven years
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