Chronological
5 And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent his servants to Solomon (for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father) because Hiram had always loved David.
2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
3 “You know that David, my father, could not build a House to the Name of the LORD his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until the LORD had put them under the soles of his feet.
4 “But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side. There is neither adversary nor evil to resist.
5 “And behold, I intend to build a House to the Name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set upon your throne for you, he shall build a House to My Name.’
6 “Now, therefore, command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon. And my servants shall be with your servants, and I will give you the wages for your servants, according to all that you shall appoint. For you know that there are none among us who can cut timber like the Sidonians!”
7 And when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed be the LORD this day, Who has given David a wise son over this mighty people!”
8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have considered the things for which you sent to me, and will accomplish all your desire concerning the cedar trees and fir trees.
9 “My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. And I will transport them by sea in rafts to the place that you shall tell me and will have them discharged there. And you shall receive them. And you shall do me the pleasure of ministering food for my family.”
10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees, his full desire.
11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of beaten oil. Thus, Solomon gave much to Hiram year after year.
12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon. And those two made a covenant.
13 And King Solomon raised a sum from all Israel. And the sum was thirty thousand men,
14 whom he sent to Lebanon, ten thousand a month, changing regularly. They were a month in Lebanon, and two months at home. And Adoniram was over the sum.
15 And Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand masons on the mountain
16 (besides the princes whom Solomon appointed over the work, three thousand three hundred, who ruled the people who fashioned the work).
17 And the king commanded them, and they brought great stones and costly stones to make the foundations of the House: hewn stones.
18 And Solomon’s workmen and the workmen of Hiram and the masons cut and prepared timber and stones for the building of the House.
6 And in the four hundred eightieth year (after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt), in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month Ziv (which is the second month), he built the House of the LORD.
2 And the House which King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty wide, and thirty cubits high.
3 And the porch in front of the Temple of the House was twenty cubits long, according to the width of the House, and ten cubits wide in front of the House.
4 And he made windows in the House, wide and narrow.
5 And he made galleries by the wall of the House, all around, by the walls of the House all around the Temple and the oracle and made chambers all around.
6 And the lowest gallery was five cubits wide, and the middle six cubits wide, and the third seven cubits wide; for he made rests all around the outside of the House, so that the beams would not be fastened in the walls of the House.
7 And when the House was built, it was built of stone finished before it was brought, so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the House while it was being built.
8 The door of the middle chamber was on the right side of the House. And men went up, with winding stairs, into the middle and out of the middle, into the third.
9 So he built the House and finished it and ceiled the House, being vaulted with a ceiling of cedar trees.
10 And he built the galleries upon all the House of five cubits in height. And they were joined to the House with beams of cedar.
11 And the Word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying:
12 “Concerning this House which you build, if you will walk in My Ordinances and execute My Judgments and keep all My Commandments, to walk in them, then will I perform My promise to you which I promised to David, your 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 built the inside walls of the House with boards of cedar, from the pavement of the House to the walls of the ceiling. And he covered them 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 with boards of cedar, from the floor to the walls. And he prepared a place within it for the oracle, the Most Holy Place.
17 But the House, that is, the Temple before it, was forty cubits.
18 And the cedar inside the House was carved with gourds, and engraved with flowers, all cedar. No stone was seen.
19 Also, he prepared the place of the oracle inside, in the midst of the House, to set the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD there.
20 And the place of the oracle inside was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and twenty cubits high. And he covered it with pure gold and covered the Altar with cedar.
21 So, Solomon covered the House inside with pure gold. And he shut the place of the oracle with chains of gold and covered it with gold.
22 And he overlaid all the House with gold, until all the House was made perfect. Also, he covered the whole Altar that was before the oracle with gold.
23 And inside the oracle he made two Cherubim of olive, ten cubits high.
24 Also, the wing of one Cherub was five cubits. And the wing of the other Cherub was five cubits. From the outermost part of one of his wings to the outermost part of the other of his wings, was ten cubits.
25 Also, the other Cherub was ten cubits. Both the Cherubim were of the same measure and size.
26 The height of one Cherub was ten cubits and so was the other Cherub.
27 And he put the Cherubim inside the inner House. And the Cherubim stretched out their wings, so that the wing of one touched one wall and the wing of the other Cherub touched the other wall. And their other wings touched one another in the midst of the House.
28 And he overlaid the Cherubim with gold.
29 And he carved all the walls of the House, all around, with engraved figures of Cherubim and of palm trees and engraved flowers, inside and outside.
30 And he covered the floor of the House with gold, inside and outside.
31 And in the entrance to the oracle he made two doors of olive. The upper post and side posts were five square.
32 The two doors were also of olive. And he engraved them with engravings of Cherubim and palm trees and engraved flowers and covered them with gold and laid thin gold upon the Cherubim and upon the palm trees.
33 And so he made foursquare posts of olive for the door of the Temple.
34 But the two doors were of fir. The two sides of one door were round, and the two sides of the other door were round.
35 And he engraved Cherubim and palm trees and carved flowers, and covered the carved work with finely-worked gold.
36 And he built the court inside with three rows of hewn stone, and one row of beams of cedar.
37 In the fourth year, the foundation of the House of the LORD was laid, in the month of Ziv.
38 And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul (which is the eighth month), he finished the House, with all its furniture, and in every point. So, he was seven years in building it.
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”.
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