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2 Then Solomon vowed to build a House for the Name of the LORD, and a house for his kingdom.
2 And Solomon counted out seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand men to cut on the mountain, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.
3 And Solomon sent to Huram, the king of Tyre, saying, “Since you have done for David, my father, and sent him cedar trees to build himself a house to dwell in,
4 “behold, I am building a House to the Name of the LORD my God, to sanctify it to Him and to burn sweet incense before Him, for the continual showbread and for the Burnt Offerings of the morning and evening, on the Sabbath days and in the new months and at the solemn Feasts of the LORD our God. This is a perpetual thing for Israel.
5 “And the House which I will build is great. For great is our God, above all gods.
6 “Who is he, then, who is able to build Him a House when the heaven and the Heaven of heavens cannot contain Him? Who am I, then, that I should build Him a House? But I do it to burn incense before Him.
7 “Therefore, send me now a cunning man who can work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in purple, in crimson and blue silk, and who is skilled in engraved work (as are the cunning men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem whom David my father has prepared).
8 “Also, send me cedar trees, fir trees and Algummim trees from Lebanon. For I know that your servants are skilled to cut timber in Lebanon. And behold, my servants shall be with yours,
9 “so that they may prepare timber for me in abundance. For the House which I shall build is great and wonderful.
10 “And behold, I will give to your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber: twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, twenty thousand measures of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.”
11 Then Huram, king of Tyre, answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, “Because the LORD has loved His people, He has made you king over them.”
12 Huram said moreover, “Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, Who made the heaven and the Earth, and Who has given a wise son to David the king, who has discretion, prudence and understanding to build a House for the LORD and a palace for his kingdom.
13 “Now, therefore, I have sent a wise man of understanding, one of my father Huram’s,
14 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan. And his father was a man of Tyre. And he is skilled to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, in timber, in purple, in blue silk, in fine linen, and in crimson, and is skilled in all engraving and in all embroidered work that shall be given to him by your cunning men and by the cunning men of my lord David, your father.
15 “Now, therefore, the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants.
16 “And we will cut wood in Lebanon, as much as you shall need, and will bring it to you to Japho by sea, in rafts, so you may carry them to Jerusalem.”
17 And Solomon counted all the strangers who were in the land of Israel, in the same way that his father David had counted them. And one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred were found.
18 And he set seventy thousand of them to the burden, and eighty thousand to cut on the mountain, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work.
3 So, Solomon began to build the House of the LORD in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, which had been declared to David his father, in the place that David prepared, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 And he began to build in the second month, the second day, in the fourth year of his reign.
3 And these are the measures on which Solomon laid the foundation for the House of God. The length was sixty cubits (after the first measure) and the width was twenty cubits.
4 And the porch that was in front was the same length as the width of the House (twenty cubits). And the height was one hundred twenty. And he overlaid it inside with pure gold.
5 And he paneled the greater House with fir trees, which he overlaid with good gold, and engraved palm trees and chains on them.
6 And he overlaid the House with precious stones for beauty. And the gold was from Parvaim.
7 The House —its beams, posts, walls, and doors — he overlaid with gold. And he engraved Cherubim upon the walls.
8 He also made the house of the Most Holy Place. Its length was same as the width of the House in the front (twenty cubits), and its width was twenty cubits. And he overlaid it with the best gold (six hundred talents).
9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the chambers with gold.
10 And he made two Cherubim in the house of the Most Holy Place, wrought like children, and overlaid them with gold.
11 And the wings of the Cherubim were twenty cubits long. One wing was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the House. And the other wing was five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other Cherub.
12 Likewise, the wing of the other Cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the House, and the other wing was five cubits, joining to the wing of the other Cherub.
13 The wings of these Cherubim were spread across twenty cubits. They stood on their feet and their faces were toward the house.
14 He also made the veil of blue silk and purple and crimson and fine linen and wrought Cherubim on it.
15 And he made two pillars in front of the House, thirty-five cubits high. And the chapiter that was upon the top of each of them was five cubits.
16 He also made chains for the Oracle and put them on the heads of the pillars and made a hundred pomegranates and put them among the chains.
17 And he set up the pillars in front of the Temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left, and called the one on the right “Jachin” and the one on the left “Boaz”.
4 And he made a bronze Altar, twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.
2 And he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, all around, and five cubits high. And a line of thirty cubits went around it.
3 And under it was the fashion of oxen, which encircled it all around, ten per cubit, surrounding the Sea all around. Two rows of oxen were cast after it had melted.
4 It stood upon twelve oxen. Three looked northward and three looked westward and three looked southward and three looked eastward. And the Sea stood above, upon them. And all their hind parts were inward.
5 And its thickness was a hand breadth. And its brim was like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies. It contained three thousand baths.
6 He also made ten caldrons and put five on the right and five on the left, in which to wash and cleanse the things for the Burnt Offerings. But the Sea was for the priests to wash in.
7 And he made ten gold candlesticks (according to their form) and put them in the Temple, five on the right and five on the left.
8 And he made ten tables and put them in the Temple, five on the right and five on the left. And he made a hundred gold basins.
9 And he made the court of the priests, and the great court and doors for the court, and overlaid its doors with bronze.
10 And he set the Sea on the right side, eastward, toward the south.
11 And Huram made pots and shovels and basins. And Huram finished the work that he would make for King Solomon, for the House of God:
12 two pillars, and the bowls, and the chapiters on the top of the two pillars, and two grates to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars,
13 and four hundred pomegranates for the two grates, two rows of pomegranates for every grate to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars.
14 He also made bases and made caldrons upon the bases.
15 And a Sea and twelve bulls were under it,
16 also pots and brooms and flesh hooks. And Huram (the father) made all these vessels of shining bronze for King Solomon, for the House of the LORD.
17 The king cast them in clay in the plain of Jordan, between Succoth and Zeredathah.
18 And Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance; for the weight of bronze could not be measured.
19 And Solomon made all the vessels for the House of God: the golden Altar and also the Tables on which the showbread stood,
20 the candlesticks with their lamps (to burn after the manner, before the Oracle) of pure gold,
21 the flowers and the lamps and the snuffers of gold (which was fine gold),
22 and the hooks and the basins and the spoons and the ash pans of pure gold. Also, the entrance to the House and its doors within, of the Most Holy Place, and the doors of the House (Temple) were made of gold.
5 So, all the work that Solomon made for the House of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, with the silver and the gold and all the vessels and put them among the treasures of the House of God.
2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes—the chief fathers of the children of Israel—to Jerusalem, to bring up the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD from the City of David (which is Zion).
3 And all the men of Israel assembled to the king at the Feast. It was in the seventh month.
4 And all the elders of Israel came. And the Levites took up the Ark.
5 And they carried up the Ark and the Tabernacle of the Congregation and all the holy vessels that were in the Tabernacle. The priests and Levites brought those up.
6 And King Solomon and all the Congregation of Israel who were assembled to him were before the Ark, offering sheep and bullocks which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
7 So, the priests brought the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD to its place, into the Oracle of the House, into the Most Holy Place, under the wings of the Cherubim.
8 For the Cherubim stretched out their wings over the place of the Ark. And the Cherubim covered the Ark and its poles above.
9 And they extended the poles, so that the ends of the poles might be seen out of the Ark, in front of the Oracle. But they were not seen outside. And they are there to this day.
10 Nothing was in the Ark except the two Tables which Moses gave at Horeb, where the LORD made a Covenant with the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt.
11 And when the priests had come out of the Sanctuary (for all the priests who were present were sanctified and did not wait by divisions),
12 and the Levites (the singers of all sorts) —Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, and of their sons and of their brethren, being clad in fine linen—they stood with cymbals and with viols and harps at the eastern end of the Altar, and with them a hundred twenty priests, blowing with trumpets.
13 And they were as one, blowing trumpets and singing and making one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD, lifting up their voices with trumpets and with cymbals and with instruments of music and praising the LORD, singing, “For He is good, because His mercy endures forever.” Then the House, the House of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,
14 so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud. For the Glory of the LORD had filled the House of God.
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