The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 Then Shlomo began to build the house of ADONAI in Yerushalayim on Mount Moriyah, where ADONAI had appeared to David his father. Provision had been made for this at the place David had chosen, the threshing-floor of Ornan the Y'vusi.
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Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 He began building in the fourth year of his reign, on the second day of the second month.
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The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.
3 These are the foundations Shlomo laid for building the house of God: the length in old-standard cubits was sixty cubits [105 feet] and the width twenty cubits [thirty-five feet].
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And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.
4 The length of the hall fronting the house was the same as the house's width, thirty-five feet and the height 210 [feet]; and he overlaid it with pure gold.
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And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.
5 The larger house he covered with cypress-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold and embossed with palm trees and chains.
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And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.
6 He also decorated the building with precious stones and gold from Parvayim,
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And the house was made beautiful with stones of great value, and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
7 overlaying the house and its beams, thresholds, walls and doors with gold and carving k'ruvim on the walls.
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All the house was plated with gold, the supports, the steps, the walls and the doors; and the walls were ornamented with designs of winged ones.
8 Then he made the Especially Holy Place; its length matched the width of the house, thirty-five feet, and its width was thirty-five feet. He overlaid it with twenty tons of fine gold.
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And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.
9 The weight of the nails was one-and-a-quarter pounds of gold, and he overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
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And fifty shekels weight of gold was used for the nails. He had all the higher rooms plated with gold.
10 Inside the Especially Holy Place he made two k'ruvim of cast metal, and they overlaid them with gold.
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And in the most holy place he made images of two winged beings, covering them with gold.
11 The wings of the k'ruvim were thirty-five feet long - the wing of the one keruv was eight-and-three-quarters feet long and touched the wall of the house; the other wing was also eight-and-three-quarters feet long, so that it touched the wing of the other keruv.
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Their outstretched wings were twenty cubits across; one wing, five cubits long, touching the wall of the house, and the other, of the same size, meeting the wing of the other winged one.
12 The wing of the other keruv was eight-and-three-quarters feet long, touching the wall of the house; and the other wing was also eight-and-three-quarters feet long, touching the wing of the first keruv.
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And in the same way, the wings of the other, five cubits long, were stretched out, one touching the wall and the other meeting the wing of the first winged one.
13 The wings of these k'ruvim spread out over thirty-five feet. They stood on their feet with their faces turned inward.
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Their outstretched wings were twenty cubits across; they were placed upright on their feet, facing the inner part of the house.
14 He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson material and of fine linen, with a design of k'ruvim worked into it.
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And he made the veil of blue and purple and red, of the best linen, worked with winged ones.
15 In front of the house he made two columns sixty-one-and-a-quarter feet high, with a capital of eight-and-three-quarters feet on top of each.
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And in front of the house he made two pillars, thirty-five cubits high, with crowns on the tops of them, five cubits high.
16 He made chains in the sanctuary and added them to the tops of the columns, and he made a hundred pomegranates and attached them to the chains.
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And he made chains, like neck ornaments, and put them on the tops of the pillars, and a hundred apples on the chains.
17 He erected the columns in front of the temple, one on the right and the other on the left; the one on the right he called Yakhin, and the one on the left he called Bo'az.
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He put up the pillars in front of the Temple, one on the right side and one on the left, naming the one on the right Jachin and that on the left Boaz.
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