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8 The doorway for the lowest side chamber was on the right side of the house; and they would go up by winding stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third.
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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 he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
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So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks.
10 He also built the stories against the whole house, each five cubits high; and they were fastened to the house with timbers of cedar.
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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 Now the word of the LORD came to Solomon saying,
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The word of the LORD came to Solomon:
12 "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes and execute My ordinances and keep all My commandments by walking in them, then I will carry out My word with you which I spoke to David your father.
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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 dwell among the sons of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel."
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And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”
14 So Solomon built the house and finished it.
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So Solomon built the temple and completed it.
15 Then he built the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the ceiling he overlaid the walls on the inside with wood, and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress.
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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 He built twenty cubits on the rear part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling; he built them for it on the inside as an inner sanctuary, even as the most holy place.
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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 house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.
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The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
18 There was cedar on the house within, carved in the shape of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, there was no stone 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 Then he prepared an inner sanctuary within the house in order to place there the ark of the covenant of the LORD .
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He 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 in length, twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in height, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the altar with cedar.
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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 So Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold. And he drew chains of gold across the front of the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it 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 He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. Also the whole altar which was by the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.
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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 Also in the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
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For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
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