1 Kings 6:1-22 ▼

1 And it came to pass in the four hundredth year and eightieth year after the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv—it is the second month of the reigning of Solomon over Israel—that he began to build the house of YHWH.

2 And the house that King Solomon built for YHWH, sixty cubits was its length, and twenty its width, and thirty cubits its height.

3 And the portico was upon the face of the sanctuary of the house, twenty cubits was its length upon the face, the width of the house, and ten by the cubit was its width upon the face of the house.

4 And he made for the house windows with narrowed frames.

5 And he built against the wall of the house chambers all around, the walls of the house all around, the sanctuary and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around it.

6 The lowest couch was five by the cubit wide, and the middle was six by the cubit wide, and the third was seven by the cubit wide. For ledges he gave all around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be fastened into the walls of the house.

7 And the house, when it was being built, was built with stone finished at the quarry, so that hammer or chisel or any iron tool was not heard in the house while it was being built.

8 The doorway for the bottom story was on the right side of the house, and by stairs they went up the middle story, and from the middle to the third.

9 And he built the house and finished it, and he covered the house with beams and rows of the cedars.

10 And he built the couch against all the house, five cubits high, and it was attached to the house with cedar beams.

11 And the word of YHWH came to Solomon, saying,

12 “This house that you are building, if you walk in My statutes, and My ordinances you do, and keep all My commandments and walk in them, then I will cause to stand My word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

13 And I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel.”

14 And Solomon built the house and completed it.

15 And he built the walls of the house on the inside On the inside with cedar boards from the floor of the house up to the walls of the ceiling. He overlaid with wood the inside, and he covered the floor of the house with sides of cypress.

16 And he built the twenty cubits at the rear of the house with cedar boards from floor to ceiling, and he built it inside, as the inner sanctuary, for the Holy of Holies.

17 And forty by the cubit was the sanctuary; it is the house before it.

18 And the cedar for the house inside was carved with gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; not a stone was seen.

19 And the inner sanctuary in the midst of the house on the inside, he prepared to set there the ark of the covenant of YHWH.

20 And before the face of the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. And He overlaid it with pure gold, and he overlaid the altar of cedar.

21 And Solomon overlaid the house inside with pure gold, and He stretched gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.

22 And all the house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house. And all the altar that was for the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.