1 Kings 6
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Solomon builds the temple[a]
6 Solomon began to build the Lord's temple 480 years after the Israelites had left Egypt. It was in the fourth year that he had ruled Israel as king. He started the work in the month called Ziv, the second month of the year.[b]
2 The temple that King Solomon built for the Lord was 27 metres long. It was 9 metres wide. It was 13.5 metres high. 3 The temple had an entrance room in front of its big hall. The entrance room was as wide as the temple, 9 metres wide. It came 4.5 metres out from the front of the temple itself. 4 Solomon made narrow windows near the tops of the temple walls.[c] 5 Solomon built rooms around the outside of the temple walls. These rooms continued outside the big hall and the inside room. The side rooms were on three levels.[d] 6 The lowest level of rooms was 2.3 metres wide. The middle level was 2.7 metres wide and the top level was 3.2 metres wide. Each floor was built on wooden beams. The beams rested on stones in the temple walls, so that there were no holes that they cut into the walls.
7 When they built the temple, they used stones that were the right shape. Workers had already cut the stones at the place where they came from. There was no sound of hammers, axes or any iron tools at the place of the temple. 8 The door to the lowest level of rooms on the sides of the temple was on the south side of the temple. Stairs went up to the middle level and to the top level.[e]
9 Solomon finished building the temple. He made the roof with wooden beams and with cedar boards. 10 He also built the rooms around the sides of the temple. Each room was 2.3 metres high. Cedar beams fixed the rooms to the temple building.
11 Then the Lord gave this message to Solomon:
12 ‘I will make my home in this temple that you are building. I will do everything for you that I promised to your father David. But you must obey my laws, rules and commands. 13 Then I will live among my people, the Israelites. I will never leave them.’
14 So Solomon finished building the temple. 15 He used cedar boards to cover the walls on the inside of the temple. The boards went from the floor of the temple up to its ceiling. He covered the floor of the temple with wood from pine trees. 16 He built a wall across the inside of the temple to make a separate room. That wall was 9 metres from the back wall of the temple. The inside room was the Most Holy Place.[f] The walls were covered with cedar boards from the floor to the ceiling. 17 The big hall in front of the Most Holy Place was 18 metres long. 18 The inside of the temple was covered with boards made of cedar wood. The workers cut pictures of fruits and flowers on the wood. The cedar boards completely covered the stone walls, so you could not see any stone.
19 Solomon prepared the inside room to be the Most Holy Place where they would put the Lord's Covenant Box. 20 The inside room was 9 metres long, 9 metres wide and 9 metres high. Solomon used pure gold to cover the walls of this room. He also covered the cedar altar with gold. 21 Solomon covered all the walls inside the temple with gold. He also hung gold chains across the entrance to the Most Holy Place. He covered everything there with gold. 22 So he covered everything inside the whole temple with gold. That included the altar that was inside the Most Holy Place.
23 Solomon used olive wood to make models of two cherubs to stand in the Most Holy Place. Each cherub was 4.4 metres tall. 24 The first cherub had two wings that were 2.2 metres long each. So it was 4.4 metres from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing. 25 The second cherub was also 4.4 metres across its wings. The two cherubs were the same size and the same shape. 26 Each cherub was 4.4 metres high. 27 Solomon put the cherubs in the inside room of the temple. Their wings went from one wall of the temple to the other wall. One cherub's wing touched one wall of the temple. One of the other cherub's wings touched the other wall. And their wings touched each other in the middle of the room. 28 Solomon covered the cherubs with gold.
29 Solomon's workers cut pictures in the wood on the walls of the big hall and the inside room. They were pictures of cherubs, palm trees and flowers. 30 They also covered the floors of both the rooms with gold. 31 They used olive wood to make doors for the entrance to the Most Holy Place. The doors were fixed to wooden pillars which had five sides. 32 The wooden doors had pictures of cherubs, palm trees and flowers. Solomon covered the pictures of the cherubs and the palm trees with very thin gold. 33 The doors to the big hall of the temple were fixed to pillars made of olive wood. Those pillars had four sides. 34 Solomon also made two doors from pine wood. Each door had two separate parts that could turn. 35 He cut pictures of cherubs, palm trees and flowers on those doors too. He covered them with gold in the same way.
36 Solomon also built a yard around the temple building. The wall around the yard had three rows of special stones, then a row of cedar beams, and so on.
37 They built the foundation of the Lord's temple in the fourth year that Solomon was king. It was in the month called Ziv. 38 They finished building the temple in the 11th year that Solomon was king. It was the eighth month, the month called Bul. So they built the temple in seven years, exactly as the plans showed that it should be.
Footnotes
- 6:1 King Solomon did not do the work himself. He told his officers what they must do.
- 6:1 This was probably in April or May 966 BC.
- 6:4 The windows were narrow. They may have let smoke out rather than let light in.
- 6:5 There were only two rooms inside the temple. There was a big hall and a smaller room, called the ‘Most Holy Place’. Around the outside there were small rooms. They were on three levels. That means that they built the rooms above each other. There were stairs which went to the rooms that were above the ground level.
- 6:8 Each level was about 2.3 metres high. That is why the windows were high up (verse 4).
- 6:16 The big hall of the temple was the Holy Place. At the back of the temple, the inside room was the Most Holy Place. Only the leader of the priests could go in there on one day every year.
1 Kings 6
New King James Version
Solomon Builds the Temple(A)
6 And (B)it came to pass in the four hundred and [a]eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of [b]Ziv, which is the second month, (C)that he began to build the house of the Lord. 2 Now (D)the house which King Solomon built for the Lord, its length was sixty cubits, its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits. 3 The vestibule in front of the [c]sanctuary of the house was [d]twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and the width of [e]the vestibule extended [f]ten cubits from the front of the house. 4 And he made for the house (E)windows with beveled frames.
5 Against the wall of the [g]temple he built (F)chambers all around, against the walls of the temple, all around the sanctuary (G)and the [h]inner sanctuary. Thus he made side chambers all around it. 6 The lowest chamber was five cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for he made narrow ledges around the outside of the temple, so that the support beams would not be fastened into the walls of the [i]temple. 7 And (H)the temple, when it was being built, was built with stone finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built. 8 The doorway for the [j]middle story was on the right side of the temple. They went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third.
9 (I)So he built the [k]temple and finished it, and he paneled the temple with beams and boards of cedar. 10 And he built side chambers against the entire temple, each five cubits high; they were attached to the temple with cedar beams.
11 Then the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying: 12 “Concerning this [l]temple which you are building, (J)if you walk in My statutes, execute My judgments, keep all My commandments, and walk in them, then I will perform My [m]word with you, (K)which I spoke to your father David. 13 And (L)I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not (M)forsake My people Israel.”
14 So Solomon built the temple and finished it. 15 And he built the inside walls of the temple with cedar boards; from the floor of the temple to the ceiling he paneled the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the temple with planks of cypress. 16 Then he built the twenty-cubit room at the rear of the temple, from floor to ceiling, with cedar boards; he built it inside as the inner sanctuary, as the (N)Most Holy Place. 17 And in front of it the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long. 18 The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with ornamental buds and open flowers. All was cedar; there was no stone to be seen.
19 And he prepared the [n]inner sanctuary inside the temple, to set the ark of the covenant of the Lord there. 20 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid it with pure gold, and overlaid the altar of cedar. 21 So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold. He stretched gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold. 22 The whole temple he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the temple; also he overlaid with gold (O)the entire altar that was by the inner sanctuary.
23 Inside the inner sanctuary (P)he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high. 24 One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the cherub five cubits: ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other. 25 And the other cherub was ten cubits; both cherubim were of the same size and shape. 26 The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other cherub. 27 Then he set the cherubim inside the inner [o]room; and (Q)they stretched out the wings of the cherubim so that the wing of the one touched one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall. And their wings touched each other in the middle of the room. 28 Also he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29 Then he carved all the walls of the temple all around, both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved (R)figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. 30 And the floor of the temple he overlaid with gold, both the inner and outer sanctuaries.
31 For the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood; the lintel and doorposts were [p]one-fifth of the wall. 32 The two doors were of olive wood; and he carved on them figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees. 33 So for the door of the [q]sanctuary he also made doorposts of olive wood, [r]one-fourth of the wall. 34 And the two doors were of cypress wood; (S)two panels comprised one folding door, and two panels comprised the other folding door. 35 Then he carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers on them, and overlaid them with gold applied evenly on the carved work.
36 And he built the (T)inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.
37 (U)In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of [s]Ziv. 38 And in the eleventh year, in the month of [t]Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its details and according to all its plans. So he was (V)seven years in building it.
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 6:1 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX fortieth
- 1 Kings 6:1 Or Ayyar, April or May
- 1 Kings 6:3 Heb. heykal; here the main room of the temple; elsewhere called the holy place, Ex. 26:33; Ezek. 41:1
- 1 Kings 6:3 About 30 feet
- 1 Kings 6:3 Lit. it
- 1 Kings 6:3 About 15 feet
- 1 Kings 6:5 Lit. house
- 1 Kings 6:5 Heb. debir; here the inner room of the temple; elsewhere called the Most Holy Place, v. 16
- 1 Kings 6:6 Lit. house
- 1 Kings 6:8 So with MT, Vg.; LXX upper story; Tg. ground story
- 1 Kings 6:9 Lit. house
- 1 Kings 6:12 Lit. house
- 1 Kings 6:12 promise
- 1 Kings 6:19 The Most Holy Place
- 1 Kings 6:27 Lit. house
- 1 Kings 6:31 Or five-sided
- 1 Kings 6:33 temple
- 1 Kings 6:33 Or four-sided
- 1 Kings 6:37 Or Ayyar, April or May
- 1 Kings 6:38 Or Heshvan, October or November
1 Kings 6
King James Version
6 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.
2 And the house which king Solomon built for the Lord, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.
3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
6 The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: 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.
7 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 iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
8 The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
9 So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
10 And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
11 And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,
12 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:
13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
16 And he built twenty cubits 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 most holy place.
17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.
21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.
23 And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.
24 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and one size.
26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
27 And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
30 And the floors of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
31 And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
32 The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
34 And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
35 And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the Lord laid, in the month Zif:
38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
1 Reyes 6
Nueva Versión Internacional (Castilian)
Salomón construye el templo(A)
6 Salomón comenzó a construir el templo del Señor en el cuarto año de su reinado en Israel, en el mes de zif, que es el mes segundo. Habían transcurrido cuatrocientos ochenta años desde que los israelitas salieron de Egipto.
2 El templo que el rey Salomón construyó para el Señor medía veintisiete metros de largo por nueve metros de ancho y trece metros y medio de alto.[a] 3 El vestíbulo de la nave central del templo medía también nueve metros de ancho y por el frente del templo sobresalía cuatro metros y medio. 4 Salomón también mandó colocar en el templo ventanales con celosías. 5 Alrededor del edificio, y contra las paredes de la nave central y del santuario interior, construyó un anexo con celdas laterales. 6 El piso inferior del anexo medía dos metros con veinticinco centímetros de ancho; el piso intermedio, dos metros con setenta centímetros, y el piso más alto, tres metros con quince centímetros. Salomón había mandado hacer salientes en el exterior del templo para que las vigas no se empotraran en la pared misma.
7 En la construcción del templo solo se emplearon piedras de cantera ya labradas, así que durante las obras no se oyó el ruido de martillos ni de piquetas, ni de ninguna otra herramienta.
8 La entrada al piso inferior[b] se hallaba en el lado sur del templo; una escalera de caracol conducía al nivel intermedio y a la planta alta. 9 Salomón terminó de construir el templo techándolo con vigas y tablones de cedro. 10 A lo largo del templo construyó el anexo, el cual tenía una altura de dos metros con veinticinco centímetros y quedaba unido a la pared del templo por medio de vigas de cedro.
11 La palabra del Señor vino a Salomón y le dio este mensaje: 12 «Ya que estás construyendo este templo, quiero decirte que, si andas según mis decretos, y obedeces mis leyes y todos mis mandamientos, yo cumpliré por medio de ti la promesa que le hice a tu padre David. 13 Entonces viviré entre los israelitas, y no abandonaré a mi pueblo Israel».
14 Cuando Salomón terminó de construir la estructura del templo, 15 revistió las paredes interiores con tablas de cedro, artesonándolas desde el suelo hasta el techo; el suelo lo recubrió con tablones de pino. 16 En el santuario interior, al fondo del templo, acondicionó el Lugar Santísimo, recubriendo el espacio de nueve metros con tablas de cedro desde el suelo hasta el techo. 17 Frente al Lugar Santísimo estaba la nave central, la cual medía dieciocho metros de largo. 18 El interior del templo lo recubrió de cedro tallado con figuras de calabazas y flores abiertas. No se veía una sola piedra, pues todo era de cedro.
19 Salomón dispuso el Lugar Santísimo del templo para que se colocara allí el arca del pacto del Señor. 20 El interior de este santuario, que medía nueve metros de largo por nueve metros de alto, lo recubrió de oro puro, y también recubrió de cedro el altar. 21 Además, Salomón recubrió de oro puro el interior del templo, y tendió cadenas de oro a lo largo del frente del Lugar Santísimo, el cual estaba recubierto de oro. 22 En efecto, recubrió de oro todo el santuario interior, y así mismo el altar que estaba delante de este.
23 Salomón mandó esculpir para el santuario interior dos querubines de madera de olivo, cada uno de los cuales medía cuatro metros y medio de altura. 24 De una punta a otra, las alas extendidas del primer querubín medían cuatro metros y medio, es decir, cada una de sus alas medía dos metros y veinticinco centímetros. 25 Las del segundo querubín también medían cuatro metros y medio, pues los dos eran idénticos en tamaño y forma. 26 Cada querubín medía cuatro metros y medio de altura. 27 Salomón puso los querubines con sus alas extendidas en medio del recinto interior del templo. Con una de sus alas, cada querubín tocaba una pared, mientras que sus otras alas se tocaban en medio del santuario. 28 Luego Salomón recubrió de oro los querubines.
29 Sobre las paredes que rodeaban el templo, lo mismo por dentro que por fuera, talló figuras de querubines, palmeras y flores abiertas. 30 Además, recubrió de oro los suelos de los cuartos interiores y exteriores del templo.
31 Para la entrada del Lugar Santísimo, Salomón hizo puertas de madera de olivo, con jambas y postes pentagonales. 32 Sobre las dos puertas de madera de olivo talló figuras de querubines, palmeras y flores abiertas, y todas ellas las recubrió de oro. 33 Así mismo, para la entrada de la nave central hizo postes cuadrangulares de madera de olivo. 34 También hizo dos puertas de pino, cada una con dos hojas giratorias. 35 Sobre ellas talló figuras de querubines, palmeras y flores abiertas, y las recubrió de oro bien ajustado al relieve.
36 Las paredes del atrio interior las construyó con tres hileras de piedra labrada por cada hilera de vigas de cedro.
37 Los cimientos del templo del Señor se habían echado en el mes de zif del cuarto año del reinado de Salomón, 38 y en el mes de bul del año undécimo, es decir, en el mes octavo de ese año, se terminó de construir el templo siguiendo al pie de la letra todos los detalles del diseño. Siete años le llevó a Salomón la construcción del templo.
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