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* Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon , because he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father , for Hiram had always loved David . * Then Solomon sent to Hiram , saying : * You know how my father David could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the wars which were fought against him on every side , until the LORD put his foes under the soles of his feet . * But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side ; there is neither adversary nor evil occurrence . * And behold , I propose to build a house for the name of the LORD my God , as the LORD spoke to my father David , saying , "Your son , whom I will set on your throne in your place , he shall build the house for My name ." * Now therefore , command that they cut down cedars for me from Lebanon ; and my servants will be with your servants , and I will pay you wages for your servants according to whatever you say . For you know there is none among us who has skill to cut timber like the Sidonians . * So it was , when Hiram heard the words of Solomon , that he rejoiced greatly and said , 4 Blessed be the LORD this day , for He has given David a wise son over this great people ! * Then Hiram sent to Solomon , saying : 4 I have considered the message which you sent me , and I will do all you desire concerning the cedar and cypress logs . * My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea ; I will float them in rafts by sea to the place you indicate to me , and will have them broken apart there ; then you can take them away . And you shall fulfill my desire by giving food for my household . * Then Hiram gave Solomon cedar and cypress logs according to all his desire . * And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand kors of wheat as food for his household , and twenty kors of pressed oil . Thus Solomon gave to Hiram year by year . * So the LORD gave Solomon wisdom , as He had promised him ; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon , and the two of them made a treaty together . * Then King Solomon raised up a labor force out of all Israel ; and the labor force was thirty thousand men . * And he sent them to Lebanon , ten thousand a month in shifts : they were one month in Lebanon and two months at home ; Adoniram was in charge of the labor force . * Solomon had seventy thousand who carried burdens , and eighty thousand who quarried stone in the mountains , * besides three thousand three hundred from the chiefs of Solomon 's deputies , who supervised the people who labored in the work . * And the king commanded them to quarry large stones , costly stones , and hewn stones , to lay the foundation of the temple . * So Solomon 's builders , Hiram 's builders , and the Gebalites quarried them ; and they prepared timber and stones to build the temple . * And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt , in the fourth year of Solomon 's reign over Israel , in the month of Ziv , which is the second month , that he began to build the house of the LORD . * Now the house which King Solomon built for the LORD , its length was sixty cubits , its width twenty , and its height thirty cubits . * The vestibule in front of the sanctuary of the house was twenty cubits long across the width of the house , and the width of the vestibule extended ten cubits from the front of the house . * And he made for the house windows with beveled frames . * Against the wall of the temple he built chambers all around , against the walls of the temple , all around the sanctuary and the inner sanctuary . Thus he made side chambers all around it . * The lowest chamber was five cubits wide , the middle was six cubits wide , and the third was seven cubits wide ; for he made narrow ledges around the outside of the temple , so that the support beams would not be fastened into the walls of the temple . * And the temple , when it was being built , was built with stone finished at the quarry , so that no hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built . * The doorway for the middle story was on the right side of the temple . They went up by stairs to the middle story , and from the middle to the third . * So he built the temple and finished it , and he paneled the temple with beams and boards of cedar . * And he built side chambers against the entire temple , each five cubits high ; they were attached to the temple with cedar beams . * Then the word of the LORD came to Solomon , saying : * "Concerning this temple which you are building , if you walk in My statutes , execute My judgments , keep all My commandments , and walk in them , then I will perform My word with you , which I spoke to your father David . * And I will dwell among the children of Israel , and will not forsake My people Israel ." * So Solomon built the temple and finished it . * And he built the inside walls of the temple with cedar boards ; from the floor of the temple to the ceiling he paneled the inside with wood ; and he covered the floor of the temple with planks of cypress . * Then he built the twenty-cubit room at the rear of the temple , from floor to ceiling , with cedar boards ; he built it inside as the inner sanctuary , as the Most Holy Place . * And in front of it the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long . * The inside of the temple was cedar , carved with ornamental buds and open flowers . All was cedar ; there was no stone to be seen . * And he prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple , to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there . * The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long , twenty cubits wide , and twenty cubits high . He overlaid it with pure gold , and overlaid the altar of cedar . * So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold . He stretched gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary , and overlaid it with gold . * The whole temple he overlaid with gold , until he had finished all the temple ; also he overlaid with gold the entire altar that was by the inner sanctuary . * Inside the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood , each ten cubits high . * One wing of the cherub was five cubits , and the other wing of the cherub five cubits : ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other . * And the other cherub was ten cubits ; both cherubim were of the same size and shape . * The height of one cherub was ten cubits , and so was the other cherub . * Then he set the cherubim inside the inner room ; and they stretched out the wings of the cherubim so that the wing of the one touched one wall , and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall . And their wings touched each other in the middle of the room . * Also he overlaid the cherubim with gold . * Then he carved all the walls of the temple all around , both the inner and outer sanctuaries , with carved figures of cherubim , palm trees , and open flowers . * And the floor of the temple he overlaid with gold , both the inner and outer sanctuaries . * For the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood ; the lintel and doorposts were one-fifth of the wall . * The two doors were of olive wood ; and he carved on them figures of cherubim , palm trees , and open flowers , and overlaid them with gold ; and he spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees . * So for the door of the sanctuary he also made doorposts of olive wood , one-fourth of the wall . * And the two doors were of cypress wood ; two panels comprised one folding door , and two panels comprised the other folding door . * Then he carved cherubim , palm trees , and open flowers on them , and overlaid them with gold applied evenly on the carved work . * And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams . * In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid , in the month of Ziv . * And in the eleventh year , in the month of Bul , which is the eighth month , the house was finished in all its details and according to all its plans . So he was seven years in building it . * But Solomon took thirteen years to build his own house ; so he finished all his house .

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