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8 The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle into 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 And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber 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 And the word of Jehovah came to Solomon, saying,
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The word of the LORD came to Solomon:
12 Concerning this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute mine ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy 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 And I will dwell among the children 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 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house unto the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.
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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 And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor unto the walls [of the ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for 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 And the house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].
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The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
18 And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops 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 And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.
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He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
20 And within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered 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 house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; 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 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle 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 And in the oracle 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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