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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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He completed the temple with a roof of cedar beams and cross-planks.
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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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The LORD's word came to Solomon,
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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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I will live among the Israelites. I won't abandon my people Israel.
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So Solomon constructed the temple and completed it.
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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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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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In front of this, the main hall was sixty feet.
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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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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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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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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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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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He made two winged creatures of olive wood for the inner sanctuary, each fifteen feet high.