1 Kings 6

1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.

2 The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

3 The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple.

4 He also had narrow windows framed high in the temple.

5 Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.

6 The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.

7 The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.

8 The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.

9 So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.

10 He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.

11 Then the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying:

12 “As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.

13 And I will dwell among the Israelites and will not abandon My people Israel.”

14 So Solomon built the temple and finished it.

15 He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.

16 He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

17 And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

18 The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.

19 Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.

20 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.

21 So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.

22 So he overlaid with gold the whole interior of the temple, until everything was completely finished. He also overlaid with gold the entire altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.

23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.

24 One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing was five cubits long as well. So the full wingspan was ten cubits.

25 The second cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same size and shape,

26 and the height of each cherub was ten cubits.

27 And he placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple. Since their wings were spread out, the wing of the first cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the second cherub touched the other wall, and in the middle of the room their wingtips touched.

28 He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

29 Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.

30 And he overlaid the temple floor with gold in both the inner and outer sanctuaries.

31 For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon constructed doors of olive wood with five-sided doorposts.

32 The double doors were made of olive wood, and he carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.

33 In the same way he made four-sided doorposts of olive wood for the sanctuary entrance.

34 The two doors were made of cypress wood, and each had two folding panels.

35 He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.

36 Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.

37 The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, in the month of Ziv.

38 In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.

1 ¶ 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.

2 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.

3 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.

4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.

5 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:

6 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.

7 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.

8 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.

9 So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

10 And [then] he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house [with] timber of cedar.

11 ¶ And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,

12 [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:

13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

15 ¶ 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.

16 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].

17 And the house, that [is], the temple before it, was forty cubits [long].

18 And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knops and open flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen.

19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

20 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.

21 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.

22 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.

23 And within the oracle he made two cherubims [of] olive tree, [each] ten cubits high.

24 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.

25 And the other cherub [was] ten cubits: both the cherubims [were] of one measure and one size.

26 The height of the one cherub [was] ten cubits, and so [was it] of the other cherub.

27 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.

28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.

29 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.

30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.

31 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].

32 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.

33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts [of] olive tree, a fourth part [of the wall].

34 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.

35 And he carved [thereon] cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered [them] with gold fitted upon the carved work.

36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.

37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:

38 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.

1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month Sif, which is the other moon, was the house built unto the LORD.

2 Now the house which king Solomon built for the LORD was threescore cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and thirty cubits high.

3 And they built a hall before the temple, twenty cubits long, according to the breadth of the house, and ten cubits broad before the house.

4 And he made the windows of the house wide within, and narrow without.

5 And he built a border upon the wall of the house round about, to go round about the temple and the choir; and made the outer wall thereof round about.

6 The lowest course was five cubits, and the middle course six cubits, and the third course seven cubits: for he put banners round about the house without, that they might not cleave unto the wall of the house.

7 And when the house was set in order, the stones were first made ready, so that no hammer or axe or iron tool was heard in the building.

8 And there was a door on the right side in the midst of the house, that went up by turnstones into the middle passage, and from the middle passage into the third.

9 So he built the house, and finished it: and he sprinkled the house with cedar, both above and on the walls.

10 He built also a passage upon the top of the whole house, five cubits high, and covered the house with cedar.

11 And the word of the LORD came unto Solomon, saying;

12 This is the house which thou shalt build. If thou wilt walk in my statutes, and do according to my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk therein, I will confirm my word with thee, as I spake unto David thy father.

13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

15 And he built the walls of the house within on the sides of cedar, from the floor of the house even unto the top thereof; and he lined it with wood within, and wainscoted the floor of the house with fir boards.

16 And he built at the back of the house twenty cubits, a wall of cedar from the floor to the top; and there he built the choir within, and the holy of holies.

17 But the house of the temple (before the choir) was forty cubits long,

18 Within the house was all the cedar, with twisted knots and flowers, that there was not a stone to be seen.

19 And he prepared the choir within the house, that the ark of the covenant of the LORD might be put there.

20 And before the choir, which was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and twenty cubits high, and overlaid with pure gold, he sprinkled the altar with cedar.

21 And Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold, and set up bars of gold before the choir, which he overlaid with gold,

22 So that the whole house was overlaid with gold: and he overlaid the whole altar before the choir with gold.

23 He made also in the choir two cherubims, ten cubits high, of olive wood.

24 Five cubits was the wing of every cherub, ten cubits from the end of his one wing unto the end of his other wing.

25 So the other cherub also had ten cubits, and was of the same measure and of the same space of both the cherubims,

26 So that every cherub was ten cubits high.

27 And he put the cherubims within the house. And the cherubims spread forth their wings, and one wing touched this wall, and the other cherub's wing touched the other wall: and in the midst of the house one wing touched another.

28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.

29 And upon all the walls of the house round about he made carvings of cherubims hollowed out, and palm trees, and flowers, within and without.

30 And he overlaid the floor of the house with plates of gold within and without.

31 And in the entry of the choir he made two doors of olive wood, with five-feet posts.

32 And made carvings thereon of cherubims, and palm trees, and flowers; and overlaid them with plates of gold.

33 So he made also in the entering in of the temple foursquare posts of olive wood.

34 And two doors of fir wood: and every door had two leaves hanging together upon the hinges thereof.

35 And he carved thereon cherubims, and palm trees, and flowers; and overlaid them with gold, according to the commandment.

36 And he built a court within of three bows of hewn stones, and of a cord of hewed cedars.

37 In the fourth year, in the month Sif, was the foundation laid of the house of the LORD.

38 And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul (which is the eighth moon), the house was prepared, as it should be, that they should build it seven years.