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1 Solomon began to build the LORD's temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, on the place David had prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had designated, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 He began building in the second month of the fourth year of his rule.
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He began to build on the second day of the second month of the fourth year of his reign.
3 Solomon laid the foundations for these structures in order to build the temple of God. The length according to the old standard of measurement was ninety feet and the width thirty feet.
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These are Solomon's measurements for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.
4 Across the front of the temple was a porch as long as the temple was and thirty feet wide, and thirty feet high. He covered the inside walls with pure gold.
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The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, across the width of the house; and its height was one hundred twenty cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold.
5 He paneled the walls of the main room with pine, covered them with fine gold, and decorated them with palm trees and chains.
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The nave he lined with cypress, covered it with fine gold, and made palms and chains on it.
6 He studded the room with precious stones for beauty; the gold was from Parvaim.
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He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold from Parvaim.
7 He covered the room, its beams, doorframes, walls, and doors with gold, and carved images of winged creatures on the walls.
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So he lined the house with gold—its beams, its thresholds, its walls, and its doors; and he carved cherubim on the walls.
8 Then he made the most holy place. It was as long as the temple was wide, thirty feet long and thirty feet wide. He covered it with six hundred kikkars of fine gold.
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He made the most holy place; its length, corresponding to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits; he overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold.
9 The gold nails weighed fifty shekels. He also covered the upper rooms with gold.
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The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
10 In the most holy place he formed two statues of winged creatures and covered them with gold.
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In the most holy place he made two carved cherubim and overlaid them with gold.
11 Together the wingspan of these creatures was thirty feet. One of the first creature's wings was seven and a half feet long and touched the temple wall, while the other wing was seven and a half feet long, touching the wing of the other creature.
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The wings of the cherubim together extended twenty cubits: one wing of the one, five cubits long, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub;
12 Similarly, one wing of the other creature was seven and a half feet long and touched the temple wall, while the other wing was seven and a half feet long and touched the other creature.
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and of this cherub, one wing, five cubits long, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, also five cubits long, was joined to the wing of the first cherub.
13 The wings of these creatures extended thirty feet. They stood on their feet facing the main room.
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The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits; the cherubim stood on their feet, facing the nave.
14 Then he made the curtain out of fine linen and violet, purple, and crimson yarn, weaving winged creatures into it.
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And Solomon made the curtain of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and worked cherubim into it.
15 Then he made two columns in front of the temple, fifty-two and a half feet high, with a seven and a half foot cap on top of each.
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In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each.
16 Then he made chains like a necklace and placed them on the tops of the columns. He made a hundred pomegranates and placed them into the chains.
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He made encircling chains and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
17 Then he set up the pillars in front of the sanctuary, one on the south, the other on the north. The one on the south he named Jachin, and the one on the north he named Boaz.
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He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right, the other on the left; the one on the right he called Jachin, and the one on the left, Boaz.
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