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And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon ;
for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father :
for Hiram was ever a lover of David .
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And Solomon sent to Hiram ,
saying ,
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Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side ,
until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet .
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But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side ,
so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent .
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And ,
behold ,
I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God ,
as the LORD spake unto David my father ,
saying ,
Thy son ,
whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room ,
he shall build an house unto my name .
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Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon ;
and my servants shall be with thy servants :
and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint :
for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians .
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And it came to pass ,
when Hiram heard the words of Solomon ,
that he rejoiced greatly ,
and said ,
Blessed be the LORD this day ,
which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people .
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And Hiram sent to Solomon ,
saying ,
I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for :
and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar ,
and concerning timber of fir .
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My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea :
and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me ,
and will cause them to be discharged there ,
and thou shalt receive them :
and thou shalt accomplish my desire ,
in giving food for my household .
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So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire .
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And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household ,
and twenty measures of pure oil :
thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year .
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And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom ,
as he promised him :
and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon ;
and they two made a league together .
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And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel ;
and the levy was thirty thousand men .
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And he sent them to Lebanon ,
ten thousand a month by courses :
a month they were in Lebanon ,
and two months at home :
and Adoniram was over the levy .
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And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens ,
and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains ;
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Beside the chief of Solomon '
s officers which were over the work ,
three thousand and three hundred ,
which ruled over the people that wrought in the work .
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And the king commanded ,
and they brought great stones ,
costly stones ,
and hewed stones ,
to lay the foundation of the house .
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And Solomon '
s builders and Hiram '
s builders did hew them ,
and the stonesquarers :
so they prepared timber and stones to build the house .
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And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt ,
in the fourth year of Solomon '
s reign over Israel ,
in the month Zif ,
which is the second month ,
that he began to build the house of the LORD .
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And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD ,
the length thereof was threescore cubits ,
and the breadth thereof twenty cubits ,
and the height thereof thirty cubits .
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And the porch before the temple of the house ,
twenty cubits was the length thereof ,
according to the breadth of the house ;
and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house .
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And for the house he made windows of narrow lights .
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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 :
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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 .
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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 axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house ,
while it was in building .
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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 .
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So he built the house ,
and finished it ;
and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar .
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And then he built chambers against all the house ,
five cubits high :
and they rested on the house with timber of cedar .
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And the word of the LORD came to Solomon ,
saying ,
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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 :
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And I will dwell among the children of Israel ,
and will not forsake my people Israel .
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So Solomon built the house ,
and finished it .
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And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar ,
both the floor of the house ,
and the walls of the cieling :
and he covered them on the inside with wood ,
and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir .
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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 .
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And the house ,
that is ,
the temple before it ,
was forty cubits long .
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And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers :
all was cedar ;
there was no stone seen .
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And the oracle he prepared in the house within ,
to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree ,
each ten cubits high .
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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 .
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And the other cherub was ten cubits :
both the cherubims were of one measure and one size .
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The height of the one cherub was ten cubits ,
and so was it of the other cherub .
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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 .
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And he overlaid the cherubims with gold .
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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 .
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And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold ,
within and without .
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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 .
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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 .
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So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree ,
a fourth part of the wall .
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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 .
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And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers :
and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work .
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And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone ,
and a row of cedar beams .
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In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid ,
in the month Zif :
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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 .
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But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years ,
and he finished all his house .