1 Kings 6
6
The Temple Built in Seven Years
(2 Chronicles 3:1–14)
1Solomon began to build the Lord’s temple 480 years after Israel left Egypt. He began building in the month of Ziv (the second month) of the fourth year of his reign over Israel. 2The temple that King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high. 3The entrance hall in front of the main room of the temple was the same length as the shorter side of the temple. It extended 15 feet in front of the temple. 4He also made latticed windows for the temple.
5He built an annex containing side rooms all around the temple. This annex was next to the walls of the main building and the inner sanctuary. 6The ⌞interior of⌟ the lowest story of the annex was 7½ feet wide, the second story was 9 feet wide, and the third story was 10½ feet wide. Solomon made ledges all around the temple so that this annex would not be fastened to the walls of the temple.
7The temple was built with stone blocks that were finished at the quarry. No hammer, chisel, or any other iron tool made a sound at the temple construction site.
8The entrance to the first story #6:8 Greek, Targum; Masoretic Text “second story.” was on the south side of the temple. A staircase went up to the middle story and then to the third story.
9When he had finished building the walls, he roofed the temple with rows of cedar beams and planks. 10He built ⌞each story of the⌟ annex 7½ feet high alongside the entire temple. Its cedar beams were attached to the temple.
11The Lord spoke to Solomon, saying, 12“This concerns the temple you are building: If you live by my laws, follow my rules, and keep my commands, I will fulfill the promise I made about you to your father David. 13I will live among the Israelites and never abandon my people.”
14When Solomon had finished building the temple’s ⌞frame⌟, 15he began to line the inside walls of the temple with cedar boards. He paneled the inside of the temple with wood from floor to ceiling. He covered the floor of the temple with cypress planks.
16He sectioned off a 30-foot-long room at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from the floor to the rafters. He built it to serve as an inner room, the most holy place. 17The 60-foot-long room at the front of the temple served as the main hall. 18Gourds and flowers were carved into the cedar paneling inside the temple. Everything was ⌞covered with⌟ cedar. No stone could be seen.
19He prepared the inner room of the temple in order to put the ark of the Lord’s promise there. 20The inner room was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. Solomon covered it and the cedar altar with pure gold. 21He covered the inside of the temple with pure gold. He put golden chains across the front of the inner room which was covered with gold. 22He covered the entire inside of the temple with gold. He also covered the entire altar in the inner room with gold.
23In the inner room he made two 15-foot-tall angels #6:23 Or “cherubim.” out of olive wood. 24Each wing of the angels was 7½ feet long. The distance from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other was 15 feet. 25Both angels had a 15-foot ⌞wingspan⌟. Both had the same measurements and the same shape. 26Each was 15 feet high. 27Solomon put the angels in the inner room of the temple. The wings of the angels extended so that the wing of one of the angels touched the one wall, and the wing of the other touched the other wall. Their remaining wings touched each other in the center of the room. 28He covered the angels with gold.
29He carved angels, palm trees, and flowers into the walls all around the inner and outer rooms of the temple. 30He covered the floor of the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.
31He made doors for the entrance to the inner room out of olive wood. The doorposts had five sides. 32The two doors were ⌞made out of⌟ olive wood. He carved angels, palm trees, and flowers into them and covered them with gold. The gold was hammered onto the angels and the palm trees.
33In the same way he made square doorposts out of olive wood for the temple’s entrance. 34He made two doors from cypress. Each of the doors had two folding panels. 35On them he carved angels, palm trees, and flowers. He evenly covered them with gold.
36He built the inner courtyard with three courses of finished stones and a course of finished cedar beams.
37In the month of Ziv of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid. 38In the month of Bul (the eighth month) of the eleventh year ⌞of his reign⌟, the temple was finished according to all its plans and specifications. He spent seven years building it.
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Melaḵim Aleph (1 Kings) 6
6
1And it came to be, in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Yisra’ĕl had come out of the land of Mitsrayim, in the fourth year of the reign of Shelomoh over Yisra’ĕl, in the new moon of Ziw, which is the second new moon, that he began to build the House of יהוה.
2And the house which Sovereign Shelomoh built for יהוה was sixty cubits long, and twenty wide, and thirty cubits high.
3And the porch at the front of the Hĕḵal of the House was twenty cubits long, according to the breadth of the House, and its width ten cubits, from the front of the House.
4And he made for the House windows with narrowed frames.
5And against the wall of the House he built rooms all around, against the walls of the House, all around the Hĕḵal and the Speaking Place. Thus he made side rooms all around.
6The lowest side room was five cubits wide, and the middle one was six cubits wide, and the third one was seven cubits wide; for he made narrow ledges around the outside of the House, so as not to lay hold on the walls of the House.
7And the House, when it was being built, was built with finished stone made ready beforehand, so that no hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the House while it was being built.
8The doorway for the middle side room was on the right side of the House. And they went up by stairs to the middle side rooms, and from the middle to the third.
9So he built the House and completed it, and he panelled the House with beams and boards of cedar.
10And he built the side rooms of the structure against all the House, each five cubits high, and they were fastened to the House with cedar beams.
11And the word of יהוה came to Shelomoh, saying,
12“This House which you are building – if you walk in My laws, and do My right-rulings, and shall guard all My commands and walk in them, then I shall confirm My word with you, which I spoke to your father Dawiḏ,
13and shall dwell in the midst of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and not forsake My people Yisra’ĕl.”
14So Shelomoh built the House and completed it.
15And he built the walls of the House inside with cedar boards, from the floor of the House to the ceiling he panelled them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the House with planks of cypress.
16And he built twenty cubits at the rear of the House, from floor to the walls, with cedar boards. And he built it inside as the Speaking Place, as the Most Set-apart Place.
17And the House was forty cubits, it is the Hĕḵal before it.
18And the cedar for the House inside was carved with ornaments and open flowers; all was cedar, not a stone was seen.
19And he prepared the Speaking Place in the midst of the House, to place the ark of the covenant of יהוה there.
20And the front of the Speaking Place was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. And he overlaid it with refined gold, and overlaid the slaughter-place of cedar.
21And Shelomoh overlaid the inside of the House with refined gold, and made gold chains pass over the front of the Speaking Place, and overlaid it with gold.
22Thus he overlaid the entire House with gold, until the entire House was completed. And the entire slaughter-place that was by the Speaking Place he overlaid with gold.
23And inside the Speaking Place he made two keruḇim of olive wood, ten cubits high.
24And one wing of the keruḇ was five cubits, and the other wing of the keruḇ five cubits – ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.
25And the other keruḇ was ten cubits. Both keruḇim were of the same size and shape.
26The height of one keruḇ was ten cubits, and so was the other keruḇ.
27And he placed the keruḇim in the midst of the inner house. And they stretched out the wings of the keruḇim so that the wing of the one touched one wall, and the wing of the other keruḇ touched the other wall. And their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.
28And he overlaid the keruḇim with gold.
29And he carved all the walls of the House all around, both inside and outside, with carved figures of keruḇim, and palm trees, and open flowers.
30And he overlaid the floor of the House with gold, inside and outside.
31And for the entrance of the Speaking Place he made doors of olive wood: the lintel, doorposts, a fifth.
32And the two doors were of olive wood. And he carved on them figures of keruḇim, and palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold. And he spread the gold on the keruḇim and on the palm trees.
33And so he made doorposts for the door of the Hĕḵal of olive wood – a fourth part.
34And the two doors were of cypress wood, the two leaves of the one folded, and two leaves of the other door folded.
35And he carved keruḇim, and palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold laid smoothly on the carved work.
36And he built the inner courtyard with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.
37In the fourth year the foundation of the House of יהוה was laid, in the month Ziw.
38And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, the eighth new moon, the house was completed in all its matters and according to all its plans. Thus he built it for seven years.
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