1 Kings 6
6
Solomon Builds the Temple for Yahweh
1It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites#Literally “sons/children of Israel” went out from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s rule#Literally “Solomon to rule” over Israel, the month of Ziv (that is the second month), that he began to build the house for Yahweh. 2Now the house that King Solomon built for Yahweh was sixty cubits in its length and twenty cubits in its width and thirty cubits in its height. 3The vestibule on the face of the main hall of the temple#Or “house” was twenty cubits in its length, and the width of the temple#Or “house” was ten cubits wide on the face of the temple.#Or “house” 4And he made for the temple#Or “house” specially designed framed windows, 5and he built a structure against the wall of the temple#Or “house” running all along the walls of the house, for the outer sanctuary and for the inner sanctuary, and made side rooms all around. 6The lower structure was five cubits in its width and the middle was six cubits in its width and the third was seven cubits in its width, for he made niches for the temple#Or “house” all around to the outside, so that beams would not attach to the walls of the temple.#Or “house” 7Now while the temple#Or “house” was being built, it was built with stones finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or stone shaping tool or any instrument of iron was heard in the temple#Or “house” as it was being built. 8The doorway of the side room in the middle of the side of the temple#Or “house” was on the south; they went up with a stairway to the middle and from the middle to the third floor. 9So he built the house and finished it. He covered the temple#Or “house” with rafters and wood planks and with the cedars. 10He also built the structure against all of the temple#Or “house” five cubits in height and fastened it to the temple#Or “house” with beams of cedar.
11Then the word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying, 12“Regarding this temple#Or “house” that you are building: if you walk in my ordinances and if you do my judgments and you keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will establish my promise with you which I made to David your father. 13And I will dwell among#Literally “in the middle of” the Israelites,#Literally “sons/children of Israel” and I will not forsake my people Israel.”
14So Solomon built the temple#Or “house” and finished it. 15He lined the walls of the inside of the house#Literally “the house from house” with boards of cedar; from the floor of the temple#Or “house” up to the rafters of the ceiling he covered them with wood on the inside.#Literally “from house” He also covered the floor of the temple#Or “house” with cypress boards. 16He built twenty cubits from the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor up to the ceiling, and he built for it an inner sanctuary on the inside, as the most holy place.#Literally “as the holy place of the holy places.” Often referred to as the Holy of Holies 17The main hall of the temple#Or “house” was forty cubits in front of the inner sanctuary,#So LXX supported by the Vulgate. MT has “before me” 18with the cedar within the inner house having carvings of gourds and buds of flowers. It was entirely of cedar; there was not a stone visible. 19Now in the inner sanctuary in the middle of the temple#Or “house” he prepared the inside to place the ark of the covenant of Yahweh there. 20In front, the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold and covered the altar with cedar. 21Solomon overlaid the temple#Or “house” on the inside with pure gold, and he drew across it with golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary, which he overlaid with gold.
22All of the temple#Or “house” he overlaid with gold until all of the temple#Or “house” was finished; all of the altar which belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold. 23He made two cherubim of olive wood for the inner sanctuary, ten cubits high. 24Five cubits was the first wing of the cherub, and five cubits the second wing of the cherub, from the tip of his one wing up to the tip of his other wing. 25The second cherub was ten cubits according to the same#Literally “one” measurement, and there was one shape for the two cherubim. 26The height of the first cherub was ten cubits and so was the second cherub.
27He placed the cherubim in the middle of the inner house, and they spread out the wings of the cherubim; the wing of the first cherub touched against the wall and the wing of the second cherub was touching against the second wall; their wings spread to the middle of the house and were touching wing to wing. 28He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29On all of the walls around the house, he carved engravings of cherubim and palm tree images and budding flowers both inside and out. 30He overlaid the floor of the house with gold both inside and out. 31He made doors of olive wood for the doorway of the inner sanctuary, as well as for the doorpost of the fifth doorframe. 32On the two doors of olive wood he made carvings of cherubim and palm tree images and budding flowers, and he overlaid them with gold by beating#Literally “and he beat out” out the gold on the cherubim and the palm tree images. 33Thus he made doorframes of olive wood on four sides for the doorway of the main hall 34and two doors of cypress wood; one door with two folding panels and the second door with two folding panels. 35He carved cherubim and palm tree images and budding flowers and overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work. 36Then he built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and a row of cedar beams. 37In the fourth year,#That is, the fourth year of Solomon’s reign the house of Yahweh was founded in the month of Ziv. 38In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, that is, the eighth month, the house was finished according to all his specifications and according to all his plans. He had built it in seven years.
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1 Kings 6
6
Solomon builds the temple
1In the four hundred and eightieth#6:1 Hebrew; Septuagint four hundred and fortieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the Lord.
2The temple that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high.#6:2 That is, about 27 metres long, 9 metres wide and 14 metres high 3The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple, that is twenty cubits,#6:3 That is, about 9 metres; also in verses 16 and 20 and projected ten cubits#6:3 That is, about 4.5 metres; also in verses 23-26 from the front of the temple. 4He made narrow windows high up in the temple walls. 5Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms. 6The lowest floor was five cubits#6:6 That is, about 2.3 metres; also in verses 10 and 24 wide, the middle floor six cubits#6:6 That is, about 2.7 metres and the third floor seven.#6:6 That is, about 3.2 metres He made offset ledges around the outside of the temple so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.
7In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built.
8The entrance to the lowest#6:8 Septuagint; Hebrew middle floor was on the south side of the temple; a stairway led up to the middle level and from there to the third. 9So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks. 10And he built the side rooms all along the temple. The height of each was five cubits, and they were attached to the temple by beams of cedar.
11The word of the Lord came to Solomon: 12‘As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, observe my laws and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfil through you the promise I gave to David your father. 13And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.’
14So Solomon built the temple and completed it. 15He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, panelling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper. 16He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. 17The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits#6:17 That is, about 18 metres long. 18The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.
19He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the Lord there. 20The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar. 21Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold. 22So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
23For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high. 24One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits – ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip. 25The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape. 26The height of each cherub was ten cubits. 27He placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple, with their wings spread out. The wing of one cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the other touched the other wall, and their wings touched each other in the middle of the room. 28He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29On the walls all round the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers. 30He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.
31For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were one fifth of the width of the sanctuary. 32And on the two olive-wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold. 33In the same way, for the entrance to the main hall he made doorframes out of olive wood that were one quarter of the width of the hall. 34He also made two doors out of juniper wood, each having two leaves that turned in sockets. 35He carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers on them and overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.
36And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.
37The foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv. 38In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in all its details according to its specifications. He had spent seven years building it.
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