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8 The doorway for the middle story was on the right side of the temple. They went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third.
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8 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.
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9 So he built the temple and finished it, and he paneled the temple with beams and boards of cedar.
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9 So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks.
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10 And he built side chambers against the entire temple, each five cubits high; they were attached to the temple with cedar beams.
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10 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.
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11 Then the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying:
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11 The word of the LORD came to Solomon:
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12 "Concerning this temple which you are building, if you walk in My statutes, execute My judgments, keep all My commandments, and walk in them, then I will perform My word with you, which I spoke to your father David.
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12 "As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, carry out my regulations and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David your father.
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13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel."
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13 And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel."
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14 So Solomon built the temple and finished it.
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14 So Solomon built the temple and completed it.
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15 And he built the inside walls of the temple with cedar boards; from the floor of the temple to the ceiling he paneled the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the temple with planks of cypress.
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15 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 pine.
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16 Then he built the twenty-cubit room at the rear of the temple, from floor to ceiling, with cedar boards; he built it inside as the inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.
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16 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.
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17 And in front of it the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long.
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17 The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
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18 The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with ornamental buds and open flowers. All was cedar; there was no stone to be seen.
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18 The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.
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19 And he prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple, to set the ark of the covenant of the Lord there.
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19 He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
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20 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid it with pure gold, and overlaid the altar of cedar.
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20 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.
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21 So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold. He stretched gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.
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21 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.
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22 The whole temple he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the temple; also he overlaid with gold the entire altar that was by the inner sanctuary.
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22 So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
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23 Inside the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
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23 In the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
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| Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New King James Version) |
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
