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* And it came to pass in the year four hundred and eighty after the sons of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt , in the fourth year of the beginning 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 . * And the house which King Solomon built for the LORD , was sixty cubits long and twenty [cubits ] wide and thirty cubits high . * And the porch before the temple of the house was twenty cubits long , according to the width of the house ; [and ] and its width was ten cubits before the house . * And for the house he made windows broad within and narrow without . * And against the wall of the house , he built wings round about , [against ] the walls of the house round about , [both ] of the temple and of the oracle ; and he made chambers round about . * The lower wing [was ] five cubits wide , and the middle [was ] six cubits wide , and the third [was ] seven cubits wide , for without [in the wall ] of the house , he had made narrowed rests round about , that [the beams ] should not be fastened in the walls of the house . * And the house , when it was built , was put together of perfect stones [made ready ] before they were brought there ; so that there was no hammer nor axe [nor ] any tool of iron heard in the house , while it was being built . * The door for the middle wing [was ] in the right side of the house ; and they went up with winding stairs into the middle [wing ] and out of the middle into the third . * So he built the house and finished it and covered the house with work of cedar placed in order . * And [then ] he built the wing against all the house , five cubits high ; and they rested on the house [with ] timber of cedar . * And the word of the LORD came to Solomon , saying , * [Concerning ] this house which thou art building , if thou wilt walk in my statutes and execute my rights and keep all my commandments to walk in them , then I will perform my word with thee , which I spoke unto David thy father ; * and I will dwell among the sons of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel . * So Solomon built the house and finished it . * And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar , both the floor of the house and the walls of the ceiling ; [and ] he covered [them ] on the inside with wood and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir . * And he built twenty cubits on the end of the house , both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar ; and he built an oracle in the house , which is the holy of holies . * And the house , that [is ], the temple before it , was forty cubits [long ]. * And the cedar of the house within [was ] carved with wild gourds and open flowers . All [was ] cedar ; no stone was seen . * And he prepared the oracle in the house within , to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD . * And the oracle in the forepart [was ] twenty cubits in length and twenty cubits wide and twenty cubits high , and he overlaid it with pure gold and likewise covered the altar [which was of ] cedar . * So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold , and he closed the door the oracle with chains of gold , and he overlaid it with gold . * And the whole house he overlaid with gold , until he had finished all the house ; also the whole altar that [was ] in front of the oracle he overlaid with gold . * And within the oracle he made two cherubims [of ] olive wood , [each ] ten cubits high . * And one wing of the cherub was five cubits , and the other wing of the cherub five cubits ; from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other [were ] ten cubits . * Likewise , the other cherub [was ] ten cubits , for both the cherubims [were ] of one measure and one size . * The height of one cherub [was ] ten cubits , and so [was ] the other cherub . * 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 . * And he overlaid the cherubims with gold . * 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 . * And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold , within and without . * And at the entrance of the oracle he made doors [of ] olive wood ; the lintel [and ] side posts had five sides . * The two doors [were of ] olive wood , and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers and overlaid [them ] with gold and covered the cherubims and the palm trees with gold . * In the same manner he made posts [of ] olive wood at the entrance of the temple with four sides . * The two doors [were of ] fir ; the two sides of the one door [were ] rounded , and the two leaves of the other door [were ] rounded . * And he carved [thereon ] cherubims and palm trees and open flowers and covered [them ] with gold fitted upon the carved work . * And he built the inner court with three orders of hewed stone and an order of cedar beams . * In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid , in the month Zif . * And in the eleventh year , in the month Bul , which [is ] the eighth month , the house was finished throughout all its parts and with everything necessary . So he was seven years in building it .:

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