1 Kings 6
6
The Outside of the Temple Is Completed
1Solomon's workers started building the temple during Ziv,#6.1 Ziv: The second month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-April to mid-May. the second month of the year. It had been 4 years since Solomon became king of Israel, and 480 years since the people of Israel left Egypt.
2The inside of the Lord's temple was 27 meters long, 9 meters wide, and 13.5 meters high. 3A four-and-a-half-meter porch went all the way across the front of the temple. 4The windows were narrow on the outside but wide on the inside.
5-6Along the sides and back of the temple, there were three levels of storage rooms. The rooms on the bottom level were just over two meters wide, the rooms on the middle level were over two and a half meters wide, and those on the top level were just over three meters wide. There were ledges on the outside of the temple that supported the beams of the storage rooms, so that nothing was built into the temple walls.
7Solomon did not want the noise of hammers and axes to be heard at the place where the temple was being built. So he gave orders for the workers to shape the blocks of stone at the quarry.
8The entrance to the bottom storage rooms was on the south side of the building, and stairs to the other rooms were also there. 9The roof of the temple was made out of beams and cedar boards.
The workers finished building the outside of the temple. 10Storage rooms just over two meters high were all around the temple, and they were attached to the temple by cedar beams.
11The Lord told Solomon:
12-13If you obey my commands and do what I say, I will keep the promise I made to your father David. I will live among my people Israel in this temple you are building, and I will not desert them.
14So Solomon's workers finished building the temple.
The Inside of the Temple Is Furnished
(2 Chronicles 3.8-14)
15The floor of the temple was made out of pine, and the walls were lined with cedar from floor to ceiling.#6.15 from floor to ceiling: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
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Ex 26.31-34. The most holy place was in the back of the temple, and it was nine meters square. Cedar boards standing from floor to ceiling#6.16 standing … ceiling: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. separated it from the rest of the temple. 17The temple's main room was 18 meters long, and it was in front of the most holy place.
18The inside walls were lined with cedar to hide the stones, and the cedar was decorated with carvings of gourds and flowers.
19The sacred chest was kept in the most holy place. 20-22#Ex 30.1-3. This room was nine meters long, nine meters wide, and nine meters high, and it was lined with pure gold. There were also gold chains across the front of the most holy place. The inside of the temple, as well as the cedar altar in the most holy place, was covered with gold.
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Ex 25.18-20. Solomon had two statues of winged creatures#6.23 statues of winged creatures: These were symbols of the Lord's throne on earth (see Exodus 25.18-22). made from olive wood to put in the most holy place. Each creature was four and a half meters tall 24-26and four and a half meters across. They had two wings, and the wings were just over two meters long. 27Solomon put them next to each other in the most holy place. Their wings were spread out and reached across the room. 28The creatures were also covered with gold.
29The walls of the two rooms were decorated with carvings of palm trees, flowers, and winged creatures. 30Even the floor was covered with gold.
31-32The two doors to the most holy place were made out of olive wood and were decorated with carvings of palm trees, flowers, and winged creatures. The doors and the carvings were covered with gold. The door frame came to a point at the top.
33-34The two doors to the main room of the temple were made out of pine, and each one had two sections#6.33,34 two sections: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. so they could fold open. The door frame was shaped like a rectangle and was made out of olive wood. 35The doors were covered with gold and were decorated with carvings of palm trees, flowers, and winged creatures.
36The inner courtyard of the temple had walls made out of three layers of cut stones with one layer of cedar beams.
37Work began on the temple during Ziv,#6.37 Ziv: See the note at 6.1. the second month of the year, four years after Solomon became king of Israel. 38Seven years later the workers finished building it during Bul,#6.38 Bul: The eighth month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-October to mid-November. the eighth month of the year. It was built exactly as it had been planned.
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1 Kings 6
6
Solomon Builds the Temple
2Ch 3:1–14
1#2Ch 3:1–2; Ac 7:47In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv (which is the second month), he began to build the house of the Lord.
2#Eze 40:1–41; 41:1–15The house which King Solomon built for the Lord had a length of sixty cubits, a width of twenty cubits, and a height of thirty cubits.#About 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high, or 27 meters long, 9 meters wide, and 14 meters high. 3The porch in front of the temple was twenty cubits#About 30 feet, or 9 meters; and in vv. 16 and 20. in length, the same as the width of the house, and ten cubits#About 15 feet, or 4.5 meters; and in vv. 23–26. deep in front of the house. 4#Eze 40:16; 41:16He made beveled windows for the house. 5#1Ki 6:16; 6:19–21He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary, and he made side chambers all around. 6The lowest story was five cubits#About 71/2 feet, or 2.3 meters; and in vv. 10 and 24. broad, the middle one was six cubits#About 9 feet, or 2.7 meters. broad, and the third was seven cubits#About 11 feet, or 3.2 meters. broad. For around the outside of the house, he made offsets on the wall so that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.
7#Dt 27:5–6The house was built of 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.
8The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house, and it had winding stairs into the middle chamber and out of the middle into the third. 9#1Ki 6:14; 6:38So he built the house and finished it and covered it with beams and boards of cedar. 10Then he built chambers against the whole house, five cubits high, and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
11Now the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying, 12#1Ch 22:10“Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes and execute My judgments and keep all My commandments and walk in them, then I will carry out My word with you, which I spoke to David your father, 13#Ex 25:8; Dt 31:6and I will dwell among the people of Israel and will not forsake My people Israel.”
14#1Ki 6:9; 6:38So Solomon built the house and finished it. 15#1Ki 7:7He built the interior walls of the house with boards of cedar. From the floor of the house to the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. 16#1Ki 8:6; 2Ch 3:8He lined twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls, with boards of cedar, and he even lined them within, even the inner sanctuary and the Most Holy Place. 17The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits#About 60 feet, or 18 meters. long. 18#1Ki 7:24The cedar of the house within had carvings of gourds and open flowers. All was cedar. There was no stone seen.
19He prepared the inner sanctuary in the inner part of the house in order to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord. 20The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the altar of cedar. 21So Solomon overlaid the interior of the house with pure gold, and he made a partition with gold chains in front of the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold. 22#Ex 30:1; 30:3He overlaid the whole house with gold as well as the whole altar that was by the inner sanctuary.
23#Ex 37:7–9Within the inner sanctuary, he made two cherubim from olive wood, each ten cubits high. 24One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing was also five cubits. From the furthest part of the one wing to the furthest part of the other was ten cubits. 25The other cherub was ten cubits. Both the cherubim were the same shape and size. 26The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub. 27#Ex 25:20; 37:9He set the cherubim within the inner sanctuary, and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubim, 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 middle of the house. 28He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29#1Ki 6:32He carved all the walls of the house with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers both inside and out. 30He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, both inside and out.
31For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood; the lintel and doorposts were five-sided. 32The two doors were also made of olive wood. He carved on them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubim and upon the palm trees. 33So also he made for the entrance to the nave four-sided posts of olive wood. 34#Eze 41:23–25The two doors were made from fir tree, with two leaves of each door folding. 35He carved on them cherubim and palm trees and open flowers and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
36#1Ki 7:12He built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone and a row of cedar beams.
37#1Ki 6:1In the fourth year, in the month Ziv, the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, 38and in the eleventh year, in the month Bul (which is the eighth month), the house was completely finished. All the details and plans were met. So he took seven years to build it.
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