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* And it happened in the four hundred and eightieth year from the exodus of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt , in the fourth year , in the month of Zif , it is the second month , in the reigning of Solomon over Israel he built the house for Jehovah . * As to the house that king Solomon built for Jehovah , its length was sixty cubits , its breadth twenty , and its height thirty cubits . * As to the porch on the front of the temple of the house , its length was twenty cubits according to the breadth of the house ; its breadth on the front of the house was ten cubits . * And he made windows of narrowing frames for the house . * And he built a side-structure on the wall of the house all around , against the walls of the house all around ; to the temple and to the sanctuary . And he made side sections all around . * The lowest side-structure was five cubits wide ; and the middle was six cubits wide ; and the third story side-structure was seven cubits wide . For outside of the house he made narrowed ledges for the house all around , so as not to lay hold of the walls of the house . * And when it was being built , the house was built of finished stone made ready beforehand . And there was not heard in the house a hammer or an axe , or any iron tool , while it was being built . * The door for the middle side section was in the right side of the house . And they went up with winding stairs into the middle one ; and from the middle one into the third . * And he built the house and finished it , and covered the house with beams and rows of cedars . * And he built the side-stories on all the house , each five cubits in height ; and they held to the house with timbers of cedar . * And the word of Jehovah came to Solomon , saying , * As to this house that you are building , if you shall walk in My statutes , and shall do My judgments , and shall do all My commandments , to walk in them , then I shall establish your word with you which I spoke to your father David . * And I shall dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel , and shall not forsake My people Israel . * And Solomon built the house , and finished it . * And he built the walls of the house inside with beams of cedar , from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling . He overlaid the inside with wood , and covered the floor of the house with boards of fir . * And he built the twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar , from the floor to the walls . And he built for it inside , for the sanctuary , for the Holy of Holies . * And the house was forty cubits , that is , the temple before it . * And the cedar for the house inside was with carvings of gourds and flowers spread out ; the whole was cedar ; not a stone was seen . * And he prepared the Holy of Holies in the middle of the house , to place the ark of the covenant of Jehovah there . * And the face of the Holy of Holies was twenty cubits in length , and twenty cubits in height . And he overlaid it with refined gold , and overlaid the altar with cedar . * And Solomon overlaid the house inside with refined gold , and caused it to pass over in chains of gold to the face of the Holy of Holies , and overlaid it with gold . * And he overlaid all of the house with gold , until all of the house was complete . And he overlaid with gold all of the altar that belonged to the Holy of Holies . * And inside the Holy of Holies he made two cherubs of the olive tree ; their height was ten cubits . * And one wing of the cherub was five cubits ; and the second wing of the cherub five cubits ; ten cubits from the ends of its wings even to the ends of its wings . * And the second cherub was ten cubits ; one measure and one form to the two cherubs . * The height of the one cherub was ten cubits , and so was the second cherub . * And he set the cherubs in the middle of the inner house . And they spread out the wings of the cherubs . And the wing of the one touched the wall ; and the wing of the second touched the second wall ; and their wings were to the middle of the house , coming wing against wing . * And he overlaid the cherubs with gold . * And all the walls of the house all around he carved with figures of cherubs and palm trees , and spread out flowers inside and out . * And he overlaid the floor of the house with gold , inside and out . * As to the entrance of the Holy of Holies , he made doors of the olive tree ; the lintel , the side posts , being a fifty part . * And the two doors were of olive wood . And he carved on them carvings of cherubs , and palm trees , and spread out flowers ; and he overlaid them with gold . And he caused the gold to go down on the cherubs and on the palm trees . * So also he made side post for the entrance of the temple from the olive tree , a fourth part . * And the two doors were of fir wood ; the two sides of the one door were folding , and the two leaves of the other door were folding . * And he carved cherubs , and palm trees , and spread out flowers , and overlaid them with gold fitted on the carved work . * And he built the inner court , three rows of hewn stone , and a row of cedar beams . * The house of Jehovah was founded in the fourth year , in the month of Zif . * And in the eleventh year , in the month Bul , the eighth month , the house was finished as to all its parts , and according to all its plans . So he built it for seven years .

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