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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 .
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He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon ;
the length thereof was an hundred cubits ,
and the breadth thereof fifty cubits ,
and the height thereof thirty cubits ,
upon four rows of cedar pillars ,
with cedar beams upon the pillars .
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And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams ,
that lay on forty five pillars ,
fifteen in a row .
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And there were windows in three rows ,
and light was against light in three ranks .
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And all the doors and posts were square ,
with the windows :
and light was against light in three ranks .
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And he made a porch of pillars ;
the length thereof was fifty cubits ,
and the breadth thereof thirty cubits :
and the porch was before them :
and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them .
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Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge ,
even the porch of judgment :
and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other .
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And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch ,
which was of the like work .
Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh '
s daughter ,
whom he had taken to wife ,
like unto this porch .
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All these were of costly stones ,
according to the measures of hewed stones ,
sawed with saws ,
within and without ,
even from the foundation unto the coping ,
and so on the outside toward the great court .
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And the foundation was of costly stones ,
even great stones ,
stones of ten cubits ,
and stones of eight cubits .
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And above were costly stones ,
after the measures of hewed stones ,
and cedars .
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And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones ,
and a row of cedar beams ,
both for the inner court of the house of the LORD ,
and for the porch of the house .
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And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre .
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He was a widow '
s son of the tribe of Naphtali ,
and his father was a man of Tyre ,
a worker in brass :
and he was filled with wisdom ,
and understanding ,
and cunning to work all works in brass .
And he came to king Solomon ,
and wrought all his work .
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For he cast two pillars of brass ,
of eighteen cubits high apiece :
and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about .
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And he made two chapiters of molten brass ,
to set upon the tops of the pillars :
the height of the one chapiter was five cubits ,
and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits :
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And nets of checker work ,
and wreaths of chain work ,
for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars ;
seven for the one chapiter ,
and seven for the other chapiter .
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And he made the pillars ,
and two rows round about upon the one network ,
to cover the chapiters that were upon the top ,
with pomegranates :
and so did he for the other chapiter .
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And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch ,
four cubits .
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And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above ,
over against the belly which was by the network :
and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter .
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And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple :
and he set up the right pillar ,
and called the name thereof Jachin :
and he set up the left pillar ,
and called the name thereof Boaz .
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And upon the top of the pillars was lily work :
so was the work of the pillars finished .
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And he made a molten sea ,
ten cubits from the one brim to the other :
it was round all about ,
and his height was five cubits :
and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about .
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And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it ,
ten in a cubit ,
compassing the sea round about :
the knops were cast in two rows ,
when it was cast .
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It stood upon twelve oxen ,
three looking toward the north ,
and three looking toward the west ,
and three looking toward the south ,
and three looking toward the east :
and the sea was set above upon them ,
and all their hinder parts were inward .
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And it was an hand breadth thick ,
and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup ,
with flowers of lilies :
it contained two thousand baths .
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And he made ten bases of brass ;
four cubits was the length of one base ,
and four cubits the breadth thereof ,
and three cubits the height of it .
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And the work of the bases was on this manner :
they had borders ,
and the borders were between the ledges :
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And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions ,
oxen ,
and cherubims :
and upon the ledges there was a base above :
and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work .
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And every base had four brasen wheels ,
and plates of brass :
and the four corners thereof had undersetters :
under the laver were undersetters molten ,
at the side of every addition .
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And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit :
but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base ,
a cubit and an half :
and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders ,
foursquare ,
not round .
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And under the borders were four wheels ;
and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base :
and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit .
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And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel :
their axletrees ,
and their naves ,
and their felloes ,
and their spokes ,
were all molten .
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And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base :
and the undersetters were of the very base itself .
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And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high :
and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same .
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For on the plates of the ledges thereof ,
and on the borders thereof ,
he graved cherubims ,
lions ,
and palm trees ,
according to the proportion of every one ,
and additions round about .
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After this manner he made the ten bases :
all of them had one casting ,
one measure ,
and one size .
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Then made he ten lavers of brass :
one laver contained forty baths :
and every laver was four cubits :
and upon every one of the ten bases one laver .
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And he put five bases on the right side of the house ,
and five on the left side of the house :
and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south .
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And Hiram made the lavers ,
and the shovels ,
and the basons .
So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD :
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The two pillars ,
and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars ;
and the two networks ,
to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars ;
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And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks ,
even two rows of pomegranates for one network ,
to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars ;
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And the ten bases ,
and ten lavers on the bases ;
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And one sea ,
and twelve oxen under the sea ;
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And the pots ,
and the shovels ,
and the basons :
and all these vessels ,
which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD ,
were of bright brass .
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In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them ,
in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan .
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And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed ,
because they were exceeding many :
neither was the weight of the brass found out .
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And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD :
the altar of gold ,
and the table of gold ,
whereupon the shewbread was ,
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And the candlesticks of pure gold ,
five on the right side ,
and five on the left ,
before the oracle ,
with the flowers ,
and the lamps ,
and the tongs of gold ,
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And the bowls ,
and the snuffers ,
and the basons ,
and the spoons ,
and the censers of pure gold ;
and the hinges of gold ,
both for the doors of the inner house ,
the most holy place ,
and for the doors of the house ,
to wit ,
of the temple .
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So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD .
And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated ;
even the silver ,
and the gold ,
and the vessels ,
did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD .
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Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel ,
and all the heads of the tribes ,
the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel ,
unto king Solomon in Jerusalem ,
that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David ,
which is Zion .
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