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1In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the LORD.

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.

2The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high.

2The Temple for the LORD that Solomon was building was 60 cubits long and 20 cubits wide.

3The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple, that is twenty cubits, and projected ten cubits from the front of the temple.

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.

4He made narrow windows high up in the temple walls.

4Solomon also constructed windows in the Temple with specially designed frames.

5Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms.

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.

6The lowest floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits and the third floor seven. He made offset ledges around the outside of the temple so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.

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.

7In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built.

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.

8The entrance to the lowest floor was on the south side of the temple; a stairway led up to the middle level and from there to the third.

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.

9So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks.

9After Solomon built the Temple and finished it, he covered the Temple with beams and planks made of cedar.

10And he built the side rooms all along the temple. The height of each was five cubits, and they were attached to the temple by beams of cedar.

10He constructed this structure to adjoin the entire Temple, five cubits high, and fastened it to the Temple with cedar timbers.

11The word of the LORD came to Solomon:

11Then this message from the LORD came to Solomon:

12"As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, observe my laws and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David your father.

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.

13And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel."

13I will reside among the Israelis and will never abandon my people Israel."

14So Solomon built the temple and completed it.

14So Solomon kept on building the Temple and finished it.

15He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper.

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.

16He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

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.

17The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

17The rest of the main nave in the front was 40 cubits long.

18The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.

18Cedar carvings in the form of gourds and blooming flowers covered the entire interior of the Temple so that no stone could be seen.

19He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.

19Solomon also prepared an inner sanctuary within the Temple where the LORD's Ark of the Covenant was placed.

20The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.

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.

21Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.

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.

22So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.

22He finished the Temple by overlaying it entirely with gold, including overlaying with gold the whole altar that was by the inner sanctuary.

23For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

23Inside the inner sanctuary Solomon placed two cherubim crafted from olive wood, each ten cubits high.

24One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits--ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip.

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.

25The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape.

25Each cherub was ten cubits high, and both were of the same size and shape,

26The height of each cherub was ten cubits.

26the height of one cherub being ten cubits, as was the height of the other.

27He placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple, with their wings spread out. The wing of one cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the other touched the other wall, and their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.

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.

28He overlaid the cherubim with gold.

28Each cherub was overlaid with gold.

29On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers.

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.

30He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.

30He also overlaid the floor of the Temple with gold in both the inner and outer sanctuaries.

31For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were one fifth of the width of the sanctuary.

31Solomon also provided doors, lintels, and five-sided doorposts for the entrance to the inner sanctuary.

32And on the two olive-wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.

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.

33In the same way, for the entrance to the main hall he made doorframes out of olive wood that were one fourth of the width of the hall.

33Solomon also provided four-sided doorposts made of cypress wood for the entrance to the outer sanctuary,

34He also made two doors out of juniper wood, each having two leaves that turned in sockets.

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.

35He carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers on them and overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.

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.

36And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.

36He constructed the inner court with three rows of precut stone and a row of cedar beams.

37The foundation of the temple of the LORD was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv.

37The foundation for the LORD's Temple was laid in the month of Ziv during the fourth year of Solomon's reign,

38In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in all its details according to its specifications. He had spent seven years building it.

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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