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11 This was their reply to us: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.(A)

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14 May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which[a] the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.(A)

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  1. 6.14 Or through whom

16 Do you not know that, if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?(A)

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The Power of the Gospel

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is God’s saving power for everyone who believes,[a] for the Jew first and also for the Greek.(A)

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  1. 1.16 Or trusts

23 For last night there stood by me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship,(A)

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“And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God,(A)

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32 “Everyone, therefore, who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven,(A)

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“I am a Hebrew,” he replied. “I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”(A)

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26 Nebuchadnezzar then approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!” So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the fire.

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46 I will also speak of your decrees before kings
    and shall not be put to shame;(A)

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Solomon Builds the Temple

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.(A) He began to build on the second day of the second month of the fourth year of his reign. These are Solomon’s measurements[a] for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits and the width twenty cubits. The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, across the width of the house,[b] and its height was one hundred twenty cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold. The great hall he lined with cypress, covered it with fine gold, and made palms and chains on it.(B)

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  1. 3.3 Syr: Heb foundations
  2. 3.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain

Solomon Builds the Temple

In the four hundred eightieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.(A) The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.(B) The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits wide, across the width of the house. Its depth was ten cubits in front of the house. For the house he made windows with recessed frames.[a](C) He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary, and he made side chambers all around.(D) The lowest story[b] was five cubits wide, the middle one was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide, for around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.

The house was built with stone finished at the quarry so that neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron was heard in the temple while it was being built.(E)

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  1. 6.4 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 6.6 Gk: Heb structure

15 Now if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living, but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”(A)

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