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8 The door to the stairs was at the south side of the temple. Winding stairs went up to the second floor and from there to the third floor.
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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 He completed the temple with a roof of cedar beams and cross-planks.
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So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks.
10 Then he built the side rooms all around the temple. They were seven and a half feet high. He attached them to the temple with cedarwood.
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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's word came to Solomon,
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The word of the LORD came to Solomon:
12 Regarding this temple that you are building: If you follow my laws, enact my regulations, and keep all my commands faithfully, then I will fulfill for you my promise that I made to 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 the Israelites. I won't abandon my people Israel.
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And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”
14 So Solomon constructed the temple and completed it.
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So Solomon built the temple and completed it.
15 He built the walls within the temple with cedar planks, paneled from the floor to the ceiling. He overlaid the floor of the temple with pine planks.
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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 At the back of the temple he built thirty feet of cedar panels from the floor to the ceiling. Solomon built the inner sanctuary, 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 In front of this, the main hall was sixty feet.
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The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
18 The cedar inside the temple was carved with gourds and blossoming flowers. The whole thing was cedar. No stone was 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 He set up the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that he could put the chest containing the LORD's covenant there.
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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 thirty feet in length, width, and height. Solomon overlaid it with pure gold and 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 Solomon covered the temple's interior with pure gold. He placed gold chains in front of the inner sanctuary and covered 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 temple inside with gold until the temple was completely covered. He covered the whole altar that was in the inner sanctuary 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 He made two winged creatures of olive wood for the inner sanctuary, each fifteen feet 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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