1 Kings 6:2-38 ▼

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.

23 And he made inside the inner sanctuary two cherubim of olive wood, ten cubits high.

24 And was five cubits the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the second wing of the cherub—ten cubits from the ends of one wing and to the ends of the other.

25 And ten by the cubit was the second cherub, of one size and one shape were the two cherubim.

26 The height of the one cherub was ten by the cubit, and so the second cherub.

27 And he set the cherubim in the midst of the inner room, and they stretched out the wings of the cherubim so that the wing of the one touched one wall, and the wing of the second cherub touched the second wall, and their wings in the middle of the room touched wing against wing.

28 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.

29 And all the walls of the house all around he carved with openings of carvings of cherubim, and palm trees, and open flowers, from inside and to the outside.

30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, for inside and for the outside.

31 And for the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood. The lintel and doorposts were five-sided.

32 And the two doors were of olive wood, and he carved on them figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold, and he beat out the gold on the cherubim, and on the palm trees.

33 And also he made for the door of the sanctuary doorposts of olive wood with four sides.

34 And the two doors were of cypress wood, two panels of the one door were folding, and two panels of the second door were folding.

35 And he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold applied evenly on the carved work.

36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cut beams of cedar.

37 In the fourth year of the house of YHWH the foundation was laid, in the month of Ziv.

38 And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, that is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its details and according to all its plans. And he built it seven years.