1 Kings 6 Parallel Bible

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	SLT Smith's Literal Translation	ESV English Standard Version	NIV New International Version
1	And it will be in the eightieth year and four hundredth year after the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year, in the month of brightness, it the second month to king Solomon over Israel, and he will build the house to Jehovah.	In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.	In 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.
2	And the house which king Solomon built to Jehovah, sixty cubits its length, and twenty its breadth, and thirty cubits its height.	The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.	The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high.
3	And the porch upon the face of the temple of the house, twenty cubits its length, upon the face of the breadth of the house; ten by the cubit its breadth upon the face of the house.	The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.	The 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.
4	And he will make for the house windows of closed bars.	And he made for the house windows with recessed frames.	He made narrow windows high up in the temple walls.
5	And he will build upon the wall of the house a floor round about the walls of the house round about for the temple, for the oracle: and he will make ribs round about.	He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around.	Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms.
6	The floor the lower part, five by the cubit its breadth, and the middle, six by the cubit its breadth, and the third, seven by the cubit its breadth: for he gave offsets to the house round about without, so that it laid not hold upon the walls of the house.	The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.	The 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.
7	And the house in its building was built of stone completed from the quarry: and hammers and the axe, every instrument of iron was not heard in the house in its building.	When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.	In 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.
8	The door of the middle rib to the right shoulder of the house: and they will go up with windings upon the middle, and from the middle to the third.	The entrance for the lowest story was on the south side of the house, and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.	The 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.
9	And he will build the house, and he will finish it; and cover the house with arches and rows with cedars.	So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.	So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks.
10	He will build the floor upon all the house, five cubits its height: and it will hold to the house with woods of cedars.	He built the structure against the whole house, five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.	And 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.
11	And the word of Jehovah will be to Solomon, saying,	Now the word of the LORD came to Solomon,	The word of the LORD came to Solomon:
12	This house which thou didst build, if thou shalt go in my laws, and my judgment thou wilt do, and watch all my commands to go in them; and I lifted up my word with thee which I spake to David thy father.	“Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.	“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.
13	And I dwelt in the midst of the sons of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel.	And I will dwell among the children of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel.”	And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”
14	And Solomon will build the house and finish it.	So Solomon built the house and finished it.	So Solomon built the temple and completed it.
15	And he will build the walls of the house from within it with ribs of cedars; from the bottom of the house even to the walls of the covering he overlaid with wood from within, and he will overlay the bottom of the house with ribs of cypresses.	He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar. From the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood, and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.	He 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.
16	And he will build twenty cubits from the thighs of the house with ribs of cedars, from the bottom even to the walls: and he will build for it from within for the oracle to the holy of holies.	He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.	He 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.
17	And forty by the cubit was the house; it the temple before.	The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.	The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
18	And cedar to the house within carved work with ornaments and opening flower-buds; all cedar: no stone was seen.	The cedar within the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen.	The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.
19	And the oracle in the midst of the house from within he prepared to give there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.	The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.	He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
20	And to the face of the oracle twenty cubits the length, and twenty cubits the breadth, and twenty cubits its height: and he will overlay it with gold shut up, and he will overlay the altar with cedar.	The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid an altar of cedar.	The 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.
21	And Solomon will overlay the house from the inside with gold shut up: and he will close up with chains of gold to the face of the oracle; and he will overlay it with gold.	And Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold, and he drew chains of gold across, in front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.	Solomon 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.
22	And all the house he overlaid with gold even till he completed all the house: and all the altar which was to the oracle he overlaid with gold.	And he overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. Also the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.	So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
23	And he will make in the oracle two cherubims of woods of oil, ten cubits its height.	In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.	For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
24	And five cubits the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the second wing of the cherub: ten cubits from the extremities of its wings and even to the extremities of its wings.	Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.	One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits—ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip.
25	And ten by the cubit of the second cherub: one measure and one form to the two cherubs.	The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form.	The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape.
26	The height of the one cherub ten by the cubit, and this to the second cherub.	The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.	The height of each cherub was ten cubits.
27	And he will give the cherubims in the midst of the house within: and the cherubims will expand the wings, and the wing of the one will touch upon the wall, and the wing of the second cherub touched upon the second wall; and their wings touched wing to wing to the middle of the house.	He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house. And the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house.	He 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.
28	And he will overlay the cherubims with gold.	And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.	He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29	And all the walls of the house round about he carved with engravings of cherubims and palm trees and opening flower-buds from within and to without.	Around all the walls of the house he carved engraved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.	On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers.
30	And the bottom of the house he overlaid with gold from within and to without.	The floor of the house he overlaid with gold in the inner and outer rooms.	He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.
31	And the openings of the oracle he made doors of the woods of oil: the projection of door-posts the fifth.	For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts were five-sided.	For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were one fifth of the width of the sanctuary.
32	And two doors of woods of oil; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims, and palm-trees, and opening flower-buds, and he overlaid with gold, and he brought down gold upon the cherubims and upon the palm-trees.	He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. He overlaid them with gold and spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.	And on the two olive-wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.
33	And thus be made for the door of the temple, door-posts of woods of oil from the fourth.	So also he made for the entrance to the nave doorposts of olivewood, in the form of a square,	In 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.
34	And two doors of the woods of cypresses: two ribs of the one door rolling, and two ribs of the second door rolling.	and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.	He also made two doors out of juniper wood, each having two leaves that turned in sockets.
35	And he carved cherubims and palm-trees, and opening flower-buds; and he overlaid with gold made even upon the carving.	On them he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work.	He carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers on them and overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.
36	And he will build the enclosure of the insides three rows of cuttings, and a row of cuttings of cedars.	He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and one course of cedar beams.	And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.
37	In the fourth year was the house of Jehovah founded, in the month of brightness.	In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid, in the month of Ziv.	The foundation of the temple of the LORD was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv.
38	And in the eleventh year in the month of rain (this the eighth month) was the house finished to all its words and according to all its judgment And he will build it seven years.	And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.	In 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.
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