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8 The entrance to the lowest story of the annex was on the south side of the Temple, with stairs leading up to the second and third stories.
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The entrance to the lowest floor was on the south side of the temple; a stairway led up to the middle level and from there to the third.
9 So King Solomon finished building the Temple. He put in a ceiling made of beams and boards of cedar.
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So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks.
10 The three-storied annex, each story 7 1/2 feet high, was built against the outside walls of the Temple, and was joined to them by cedar beams.
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And he built the side rooms all along the temple. The height of each was five cubits, and they were attached to the temple by beams of cedar.
11 The Lord said to Solomon,
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The word of the LORD came to Solomon:
12 "If you obey all my laws and commands, I will do for you what I promised your father David.
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“As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, observe my laws and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David your father.
13 I will live among my people Israel in this Temple that you are building, and I will never abandon them."
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And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”
14 So Solomon finished building the Temple.
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So Solomon built the temple and completed it.
15 The inside walls were covered with cedar panels from the floor to the ceiling, and the floor was made of pine.
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He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper.
16 An inner room, called the Most Holy Place, was built in the rear of the Temple. It was 30 feet long and was partitioned off by cedar boards reaching from the floor to the ceiling.
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He partitioned off 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 The room in front of the Most Holy Place was 60 feet long.
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The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
18 The cedar panels were decorated with carvings of gourds and flowers; the whole interior was covered with cedar, so that the stones of the walls could not be seen.
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The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.
19 In the rear of the Temple an inner room was built, where the Lord's Covenant Box was to be placed.
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He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
20 This inner room was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high, all covered with pure gold. The altar was covered with cedar panels.
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The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
21 The inside of the Temple was covered with gold, and gold chains were placed across the entrance of the inner room, which was also covered with gold.
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Solomon covered 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 The whole interior of the Temple was covered with gold, as well as the altar in the Most Holy Place.
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So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
23 Two winged creatures were made of olive wood and placed in the Most Holy Place, each one 15 feet tall.
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For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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