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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Solomon began to build the temple for the LORD in the four hundred eightieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of his reign over Israel, in the second month, in the month of Ziv. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The portico in front of the temple sanctuary was 30 feet long extending across the temple's width, and 15 feet deep in front of the temple. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He also made windows with beveled frames for the temple. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He then built a chambered structure along the temple wall, encircling the walls of the temple, that is, the sanctuary and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The lowest chamber was 7 1/2 feet wide, the middle was nine feet wide, and the third was 10 1/2 feet wide. He also provided offset ledges for the temple all around the outside so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The temple's construction used finished stones cut at the quarry so that no hammer, chisel, or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The door for the lowest side chamber was on the right side of the temple. They went up a stairway to the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9When he finished building the temple, he paneled it with boards and planks of cedar. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He built the chambers along the entire temple, joined to the temple with cedar beams; each story was 7 1/2 feet high. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The word of the LORD came to Solomon:" |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12As for this temple you are building--if you walk in My statutes, observe My ordinances, and keep all My commands by walking in them, I will fulfill My promise to you, which I made to your father David. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I will live among the Israelites and not abandon My people Israel." |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14When Solomon finished building the temple, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15he paneled the interior temple walls with cedar boards; from the temple floor to the surface of the ceiling he overlaid the interior with wood. He also overlaid the floor with cypress boards. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Then he lined 30 feet of the rear of the temple with cedar boards from the floor to the surface of the ceiling, and he built the interior as an inner sanctuary, the most holy place. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The temple, that is, the sanctuary in front of the most holy place, was 60 feet long. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with ornamental gourds and flower blossoms. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple to put the ark of the LORD's covenant there. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The interior of the sanctuary was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high; he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the cedar altar. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Next, Solomon overlaid the interior of the temple with pure gold, and he hung gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary and overlaid it with gold. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22So he added the gold overlay to the entire temple until everything was completely finished, including the entire altar that belongs to the inner sanctuary. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim 15 feet high out of olive wood. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24One wing of the first cherub was 7 1/2 feet long, and the other wing was 7 1/2 feet long. The wingspan was 15 feet from tip to tip. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25The second cherub also was 15 feet; both cherubim had the same size and shape. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26The first cherub's height was 15 feet and so was the second cherub's. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Then he put the cherubim inside the inner temple. Since their wings were spread out, the first one's wing touched one wall while the second cherub's wing touched the other wall, and in the middle of the temple their wings were touching wing to wing. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28He also overlaid the cherubim with gold. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29He carved all the surrounding temple walls with carved engravings--cherubim, palm trees and flower blossoms--in both the inner and outer sanctuaries. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30He overlaid the temple floor with gold in both the inner and outer sanctuaries. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made olive wood doors. The pillars of the doorposts were five-sided. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32The two doors were made of olive wood. He carved cherubim, palm trees, and flower blossoms on them and overlaid them with gold, hammering gold over the cherubim and palm trees. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33In the same way, he made four-sided olive wood doorposts for the sanctuary entrance. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34The two doors were made of cypress wood; the first door had two folding sides, and the second door had two folding panels. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35He carved cherubim, palm trees, and flower blossoms on them and overlaid them with gold applied evenly over the carving. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36He built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37The foundation of the LORD's temple was laid in Solomon's fourth year in the month of Ziv. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38In his eleventh year in the eighth month, in the month of Bul, the temple was completed in every detail and according to every specification. So he built it in seven years. |
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