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And it came to pass in the fourhundredandeightiethyear after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourthyear of Solomon'sreign over Israel, in the monthZif, which is the secondmonth, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
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And the house which kingSolomonbuilt for the LORD, the length thereof was threescorecubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirtycubits.
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And the porchbefore the temple of the house,twentycubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and tencubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
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And for the house he madewindows of narrowlights.
~yimUj]a ~yipUq.v yenw{L;x tIy'B;l f;[;Y;w
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And against the wall of the house he builtchambers* round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he madechambers round about:
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The nethermostchamber* was fivecubitsbroad, and the middle was sixcubitsbroad, and the third was sevencubitsbroad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
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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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And the word of the LORD came to Solomon,saying,
r{mael h{m{l.v -l,a h'wh.y -r;b.D yih.y;w
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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 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 oracle in the forepart was twentycubits in length, and twentycubits in breadth, and twentycubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with puregold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.
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And fivecubits was the onewing of the cherub, and fivecubits the otherwing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were tencubits.
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And he set the cherubimswithin the innerhouse: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the onetouched the one wall, and the wing of the othercherubtouched the otherwall; and their wingstouchedoneanother in the midst of the house.
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The twodoors also were of olivetree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and openflowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spreadgold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
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And in the eleventh*year, in the monthBul, which is the eighthmonth, was the housefinished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he sevenyears in building it.