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8 The door, for the middle side, was on the right hand of the house: and by winding stairs they went up to the middle room, 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 roofs 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 a floor over all the house, five cubits in height, and he covered 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 the Lord came to Solomon,
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The word of the LORD came to Solomon:
12 As for this house, which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments, walking in them, I will fulfil my word to thee, which I spoke to 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 in the midst of the children of Israel, and I 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 on the inside, with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the top of the walls, and to the roofs, he covered it with boards of cedar on the inside: and he covered the floor of the house with planks 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 up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at the hinder part of the temple, from the floor to the top: and made the inner house of the oracle to be the holy of holies.
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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 temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits long.
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The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
18 And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought, and carvings projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could be seen in the wall at all.
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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 made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner part, to set 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 Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered it, and overlaid it with most pure gold. And the altar also he covered 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 And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of 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 there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with gold: the whole altar of the oracle he covered also 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 he made in the oracle two cherubims of olive tree, of ten cubits in height.
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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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