| Chapter
6 |
| 1 | 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 Zif, which is the second month, that he began
to build the house of the LORD. |
| 2
| And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length
thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the
height thereof thirty cubits. |
| 3
| And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the
length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the
breadth thereof before the house. |
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4 | And for the house he made windows of narrow lights. |
| 5 | And against the wall of the house he
built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of
the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about: |
| 6 | The nethermost chamber was five
cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven
cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round
about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house. |
| 7 | And the house, when it was
in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so
that 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 chamber was in the right side of the house: and
they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle
into the third. |
| 9 | So he
built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards
of cedar. |
| 10 | And then he
built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the
house with timber of cedar. |
| 11
| And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying, |
| 12 | Concerning this house which thou art
in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and
keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with
thee, which I spake unto David thy father: |
| 13 | And 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 | And he built the walls of the house
within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the
ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of
the house with planks of fir. |
| 16
| And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor
and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for
the oracle, even for the most holy place. |
| 17 | And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty
cubits long. |
| 18 | And the
cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was
cedar; there was no stone seen. |
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19 | And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the
ark of the covenant of the LORD. |
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20 | And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and
twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he
overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar. |
| 21 | So Solomon overlaid the
house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold
before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. |
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22 | And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he
had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he
overlaid with gold. |
| 23 |
And within the oracle he made two cherubim of olive tree, each ten cubits
high. |
| 24 | 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 unto the uttermost part of the other
were ten cubits. |
| 25 | And
the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one
size. |
| 26 | The height of
the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. |
| 27 | And he set the cherubim within the
inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubim, 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 | And he
overlaid the cherubim with gold. |
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29 | 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. |
| 30 | And the floors of the
house he overlaid with gold, within and without. |
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31 | And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of
olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall. |
| 32 | The two doors also were of
olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and
open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubim,
and upon the palm trees. |
| 33 |
So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth
part of the wall. |
| 34 | And
the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding,
and the two leaves of the other door were folding. |
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35 | And he carved thereon cherubim and palm trees and
open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work. |
| 36 | And he built the inner court
with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams. |
| 37 | In the fourth year was the foundation
of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif: |
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38 | And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is
the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and
according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it. |
