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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1During the month of Ziv, which was the second month of the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, 480 years after the Israelis left the land of Egypt, Solomon began to build the LORD's Temple. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The Temple for the LORD that Solomon was building was 60 cubits long and 20 cubits wide. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3A portico extended in front of the Temple for 20 cubits outward, corresponding to the width of the Temple. Along the front of the Temple its depth was ten cubits. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Solomon also constructed windows in the Temple with specially designed frames. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Against the wall of the Temple he built a series of rooms that encompassed the exterior of the Temple walls around the inner sanctuary. He built these side chambers all around the building. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The lower structures were five cubits wide, the middle structures were six cubits wide and the third structures were seven cubits wide. Offsets were placed all around the Temple so that beams would not protrude through the walls of the Temple. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The Temple was constructed of stone precut at the quarry so that no hammer, axe, or any other iron implement would be heard in the Temple while it was being built. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8A passageway to the side chamber was constructed on the south side of the Temple by which people could ascend winding stairs to the middle story, then from there to the third story. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9After Solomon built the Temple and finished it, he covered the Temple with beams and planks made of cedar. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He constructed this structure to adjoin the entire Temple, five cubits high, and fastened it to the Temple with cedar timbers. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then this message from the LORD came to Solomon: |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Concerning this Temple that you're building, if you live your life according to my statutes, carry out my ordinances, and keep all of my commands, and live according to them, then I will do what I promised to your father David. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I will reside among the Israelis and will never abandon my people Israel." |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14So Solomon kept on building the Temple and finished it. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Then he built the inside walls of the Temple, lining them from floor to ceiling with cedar boards, and overlaying the Temple floor with boards made of cypress wood. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He lined 20 cubits of the rear part of the Temple from floor to ceiling with cedar boards specially constructed for the inside to serve as the Most Holy Place. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The rest of the main nave in the front was 40 cubits long. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Cedar carvings in the form of gourds and blooming flowers covered the entire interior of the Temple so that no stone could be seen. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Solomon also prepared an inner sanctuary within the Temple where the LORD's Ark of the Covenant was placed. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The inner sanctuary was 20 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and 20 cubits high, and overlaid with pure gold. The altar was also overlaid with cedar. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Solomon overlaid the inside of the Temple with pure gold, fastened gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22He finished the Temple by overlaying it entirely with gold, including overlaying with gold the whole altar that was by the inner sanctuary. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Inside the inner sanctuary Solomon placed two cherubim crafted from olive wood, each ten cubits high. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Each wing of one cherub was five cubits long, and each wing of the other cherub was five cubits long, so that the distance from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing was ten cubits. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Each cherub was ten cubits high, and both were of the same size and shape, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26the height of one cherub being ten cubits, as was the height of the other. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Solomon placed the cherubim in the middle of the inner sanctuary, with their wings spread in such a way that the wing of one was touching the one wall and the opposite wing of the other cherub was touching the opposite wall. Furthermore, their wings in the center of the wall were touching each other wing-to-wing. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Each cherub was overlaid with gold. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Solomon also inlaid all the inner walls of the Temple—both the inner and outer sanctuaries—with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and blooming flowers. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30He also overlaid the floor of the Temple with gold in both the inner and outer sanctuaries. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Solomon also provided doors, lintels, and five-sided doorposts for the entrance to the inner sanctuary. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32He installed two doors made of olive wood, inlaying them with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and blooming flowers, and overlaying them with gold. Then he added more gold to cover the cherubim and palm trees. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Solomon also provided four-sided doorposts made of cypress wood for the entrance to the outer sanctuary, |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34along with two doors of cypress wood, one door of which had two leaves that turned on hinges, as did the other door, which also had two leaves that turned on hinges. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Solomon also inlaid the doors with cherubim, palm trees, and blooming flowers. He overlaid them with gold that was carefully applied on the engraved work. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36He constructed the inner court with three rows of precut stone and a row of cedar beams. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37The foundation for the LORD's Temple was laid in the month of Ziv during the fourth year of Solomon's reign, |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38and the Temple was completely finished according to its plans and specifications in the eighth month of the eleventh year of Solomon's reign, that is, during the month of Bul. It took about seven years to build. |
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