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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 Jehovah . * And the house that king Solomon built for Jehovah was sixty cubits in length , and twenty in breadth , and thirty cubits in height . * And the porch , in front of the temple of the house , was twenty cubits in length , in front of the house broadways , [and ] ten cubits was its breadth , in front of the house . * And for the house he made closed windows with fixed lattices . * And against the wall of the house he built floors round about , [against ] the walls of the house , round about the temple and the oracle ; and he made side-chambers round about . * The lowest floor was five cubits broad , and the middle one was six cubits broad , and the third was seven cubits broad ; for in the [thickness of the wall of ] the house he made resets round about outside , that nothing should be fastened in the walls of the house . * And the house , when it was being built , was built of stone entirely 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 being built . * The entrance to the side-chambers of the middle [floor ] was in the right side of the house ; and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [floor ], and out of the middle into the third . * And he built the house , and finished it ; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar . * And he built the floors against all the house , five cubits high ; and they held to the house by the timbers of cedar . * And the word of Jehovah came to Solomon saying , * As to this house which thou art building , if thou wilt walk in my statutes , and practise mine ordinances , and keep all my commandments to walk in them , then will I perform my word as to thee which I spoke unto David thy father ; * and I will dwell among the children of Israel , and will not forsake my people Israel . * And Solomon built the house and finished it . * And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar , from the floor of the house to the walls of the roof ; he overlaid [them ] on the inside with wood , and overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress . * And he built twenty cubits of the innermost part of the house , both floor and walls , with boards of cedar ; and he built [them ] for it within , to [be ] the oracle , the most holy place . * And the house , that is , the temple before it , was forty cubits [long ]. * And the cedar of the house within was carved with colocynths and half-open flowers : all was cedar ; there was no stone seen . * And he prepared the oracle in the midst of the house within , to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah . * And the oracle within 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 he overlaid the cedar-wood altar -- * and Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold , and shut off the oracle in front with chains of gold , and overlaid it with gold . * And the whole house he overlaid with gold , the whole house entirely ; also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold . * And he made in the oracle two cherubim of olive-wood , ten cubits high ; * and one wing of the cherub was five cubits , and five cubits the other wing of the cherub , ten cubits from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing ; * and the other cherub was ten cubits : both the cherubim were of one measure and one form . * The height of the one cherub was ten cubits , and so of the other cherub . * And he set the cherubim in the midst of the inner house ; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth , so that the wing of the one touched the wall , and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall ; and their wings touched , wing to wing , in the midst of the house . * And he overlaid the cherubim with gold . * And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved sculptures of cherubim , and palm-trees , and half-open flowers , within and without . * And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold , within and without . * And for the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive-wood : the lintel [and ] side posts were the fifth part [of the breadth of the house ]. * The two doors were of olive-wood ; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim , and palm-trees and half-open flowers , and overlaid them with gold , and spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm-trees . * And he also made for the doorway of the temple posts of olive-wood , of the fourth part [of the breadth of the house ]. * And the two folding-doors were of cypress-wood : the two leaves of the one door were folding , and the two leaves of the other door were folding . * And he carved on them cherubim , and palm-trees , and half-open flowers ; and overlaid them with gold fitted on the carved work . * And he built the inner court of three rows of hewn stone , and a row of cedar-beams . * In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Jehovah laid , in the month Zif ; * and in the eleventh year , in the month Bul , which is the eighth month , was the house finished in all its parts , and according to all the fashion of it . So he was seven years in building it .

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