And for the house he made windows of narrow lights (6:4)

And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, [against] the walls of the house round about, [both] of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about: (6:5)

The nethermost chamber [was] five cubits broad, and the middle [was] six cubits broad, and the third [was] seven cubits broad: for without [in the wall] of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that [the beams] should not be fastened in the walls of the house (6:6)

And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor ax [nor] any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building (6:7)

The door for the middle chamber [was] in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle [chamber], and out of the middle into the third (6:8)

So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar (6:9)

And [then] he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house [with] timber of cedar (6:10)

And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying, (6:11)

[Concerning] this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father: (6:12)

And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel (6:13)

So Solomon built the house, and finished it. (6:14) com1

And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: [and] he covered [them] on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir (6:15)

And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built [them] for it within, [even] for the oracle, [even] for the most holy [place] (6:16)

And the house, that [is], the temple before it, was forty cubits [long] (6:17)

And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knops and open flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen (6:18)

And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord (6:19)

And the oracle in the forepart [was] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and [so] covered the altar [which was of] cedar (6:20)

So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold (6:21)

And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that [was] by the oracle he overlaid with gold (6:22)

And within the oracle he made two cherubims [of] olive tree, [each] ten cubits high (6:23)

And five cubits [was] the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other [were] ten cubits (6:24)

And the other cherub [was] ten cubits: both the cherubims [were] of one measure and one size (6:25)

The height of the one cherub [was] ten cubits, and so [was it] of the other cherub (6:26)

And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the [one] wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house (6:27)

And he overlaid the cherubims with gold (6:28)

And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without (6:29)

And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without (6:30)

And for the entering of the oracle he made doors [of] olive tree: the lintel [and] side posts [were] a fifth part [of the wall] (6:31)

The two doors also [were of] olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid [them] with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees (6:32)

So also made he for the door of the temple posts [of] olive tree, a fourth part [of the wall] (6:33)

And the two doors [were of] fir tree: the two leaves of the one door [were] folding, and the two leaves of the other door [were] folding (6:34)

And he carved [thereon] cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered [them] with gold fitted upon the carved work (6:35)

And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams (6:36)

In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the Lord laid, in the month Zif: (6:37)

And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which [is] the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it (6:38)

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