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The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third.
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So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.
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And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.
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(And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,
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About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father.
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And I will be ever among the children of Israel, and will not go away from my people.
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So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)
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The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood.
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And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.
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And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.
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(All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)
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And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.
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And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold.
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Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front of the inmost room, which itself was covered with gold.
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Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely (and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold).
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In the inmost room he made two winged beings of olive-wood, ten cubits high;