Solomon Builds the Temple^(A)

6 In the four hundred and eightieth^[a] year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month,^(B) he began to build the temple of the Lord.^(C)

² The temple^(D) that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high.^[b]

¹¹ The word of the Lord came^(A) to Solomon: ¹² “As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, observe my laws and keep all my commands^(B) and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise^(C) I gave to David your father. ¹³ And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon^(D) my people Israel.”

¹⁴ So Solomon^(E) built the temple and completed^(F) it.

The Temple’s Furnishings^(A)(B)

¹³ King Solomon sent to Tyre and brought Huram,^{[a](C) 14} whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was from Tyre and a skilled craftsman in bronze. Huram was filled with wisdom,^(D) with understanding and with knowledge to do all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all^(E) the work assigned to him.

⁴⁰ He also made the pots^[a] and shovels and sprinkling bowls.^(A)

So Huram finished all the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of the Lord:

All these objects that Huram^(D) made for King Solomon for the temple of the Lord were of burnished bronze. ⁴⁶ The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain^(E) of the Jordan between Sukkoth^(F) and Zarethan.^{(G) 47} Solomon left all these things unweighed,^(H) because there were so many;^(I) the weight of the bronze^(J) was not determined.

⁴⁸ Solomon also made all^(K) the furnishings that were in the Lord’s temple:

⁵¹ When all the work King Solomon had done for the temple of the Lord was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated^(Q)—the silver and gold and the furnishings^(R)—and he placed them in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple.