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Chapter 3 |
| 1 | Then Solomon
began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the
Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in
the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. |
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2 | And he began to build in the
second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. |
| 3 |
Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the
house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore
cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. |
| 4 | And the porch that was in the
front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house,
twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it
within with pure gold. |
| 5 | And the greater house he cieled with fir
tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and
chains. |
| 6 |
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty:
and the gold was gold of Parvaim. |
| 7 | He overlaid also the house, the
beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and
graved cherubim on the walls. |
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8 | And he made the most holy house, the
length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and
the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting
to six hundred talents. |
| 9 | And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels
of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. |
| 10 | And in the
most holy house he made two cherubim of image work, and overlaid them with
gold. |
| 11 |
And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: one
wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and
the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other
cherub. |
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| And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits,
reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also,
joining to the wing of the other cherub. |
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13 | The wings of these
cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet,
and their faces were inward. |
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14 | And he made the vail of blue, and
purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon. |
| 15 |
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and
the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. |
| 16 |
And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars;
and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. |
| 17 | And
he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the
other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and
the name of that on the left Boaz. |
