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And the house, when it was in building , was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of ironheard in the house, while it was in building .
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The door for the middlechamber was in the rightside of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
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So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
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And then he builtchambers* against all the house,fivecubitshigh: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
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And the word of the LORD came to Solomon,saying ,
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Concerning this house which thou art in building , if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:
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And I will dwellamong the children of Israel, and will not forsake my peopleIsrael.
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And he built the walls of the housewithin with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
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And he builttwentycubits on the sides of the house,both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the mostholy place.
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And the house, that is, the templebefore it, was fortycubits long.