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6 ¶ And it came to pass in the year four hundred and eighty after the sons of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the beginning 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, was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
3 And the porch before the temple of the house was twenty cubits long, according to the width of the house; and its width was ten cubits before the house.
4 And for the house he made windows broad within and narrow without.
5 And against the wall of the house, he built wings 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 lower wing was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide, for without in the wall of the house, he had 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 built, was put together of perfect stones made ready before they were brought there; so that there was no hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was being built.
8 The door for the middle wing was in the right side of the house; and they went up with winding stairs into the middle wing and out of the middle into the third.
9 So he built the house and finished it and covered the house with work of cedar placed in order.
10 And then he built the wing 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 building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes and execute my rights and keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will perform my word with thee, which I spoke unto David thy father;
13 and I will dwell among the sons 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 end of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar; and he built an oracle in the house, which is the holy of holies.
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 wild gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen.
19 And he prepared the oracle 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 wide and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold and likewise covered the altar which was of cedar.
21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold, and he closed the door of the oracle with chains of gold, 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 in front of the oracle he overlaid with gold.
23 And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
24 And one wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the cherub five cubits; from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
25 Likewise, the other cherub was ten cubits, for both the cherubims were of one measure and one size.
26 The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was 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 floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
31 And at the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood; the lintel and side posts had five sides.
32 The two doors were of olive wood, and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers and overlaid them with gold and covered the cherubims and the palm trees with gold.
33 In the same manner he made posts of olive wood at the entrance of the temple with four sides.
34 The two doors were of fir; the two sides of the one door were rounded, and the two leaves of the other door were rounded.
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 orders of hewed stone and an order of cedar beams.
37 In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid, in the month Zif.
38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts and with everything necessary. So he was seven years in building it.
7 ¶ But Solomon built his own house in thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
2 He also built the house of the forest of Lebanon, which was one hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams that lay on forty-five pillars, fifteen in a row.
4 And there were windows in three orders, one against another in three orders.
5 And all the doors and posts were square, with some windows opposite the other windows in three orders.
6 And he made a porch of pillars, which was fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and the porch was before those others, with its corresponding pillars and thick beams.
7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
8 And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of like work. Solomon also made a house for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.
9 All these works were of costly stones, cut and sawed with saws according to the measurements, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside unto the great court.
10 And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.
11 And above were also costly stones, hewed according to their measurements, and work of cedar.
12 And the great court round about had three orders of hewed stones and an order of cedar beams, and likewise the inner court of the house of the LORD and the porch of the house.
13 ¶ And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre,
14 who was a widow’s son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father had been of Tyre. A worker in brass, full of wisdom and intelligence and knowledge in all work of brass. And he came to King Solomon and did all his work.
15 He made two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece, and a line of twelve cubits did compass each of them about.
16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars; the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits.
17 And nets of checker work and wreaths of chain work for the chapiters which were to be placed upon the top of the pillars, seven for the one chapiter and seven for the other chapiter.
18 And when he had made the pillars, he also made two orders of pomegranates round about upon the network to cover the chapiters that were upon the heads of the pillars with the pomegranates, and so did he for the other chapiter.
19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were in the form of lilies like those seen in the porch, for four cubits.
20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had two hundred pomegranates in two orders round about in each chapiter, on top of the belly of the chapiter, this belly being in front of the network.
21 And he stood up the pillars in the porch of the temple. And when he had set up the right pillar, he called the name of it Jachin; {Heb. The LORD establishes} and in standing up the left pillar, he called its name Boaz. {Heb. Only in Him is there strength}
22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily work, and so the work of the pillars was finished.
23 Likewise, he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other; it was perfectly round, and its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
24 And under the brim of it round about there were knops like gourds compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about in two orders, which were made when it was cast.
25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north and three looking toward the west and three looking toward the Negev and three looking toward the east; and upon them the sea rested, and all their hinder parts were inward.
26 And it was a hand breadth thick, and its lip was made like the lip of a cup, with flowers of lilies; it contained two thousand baths.
27 He also made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of each base and four cubits the width and three cubits the height.
28 And the work of the bases was like this: they had borders, and the borders were between mouldings;
29 and upon the borders that were between the mouldings were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and upon the mouldings of the base, above and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of bevelled work.
30 And each base had four brasen wheels and cardinals {hinged axles} of brass, and in its four corners it had shoulderpieces, which were molten at the side of each addition, to be under the laver.
31 Its mouth entered into the chapiter (in the joint that came out of the base) one cubit above, and its mouth was rounded like the workmanship (of the same joint) in the base, of a cubit and a half. There were also engravings upon the mouth of it with their borders, which were square, not round.
32 And under the borders were the four wheels, and the axletrees of the wheels came forth from the same base. The height of each wheel was one and a half cubits.
33 And the workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel, their axletrees and their rims and their spokes and their hubs were all molten.
34 Likewise, the four shoulderpieces to the four corners of each base, and the shoulderpieces were of the very base itself.
35 And in the top of the base there was a rounded compass of half a cubit high and on the top of the base, its mouldings and borders which were part of it.
36 For on the tables of the mouldings and on the borders thereof, he made cherubim, lions, and palm trees, in front of the additions of each one round about.
37 After this manner he made ten bases cast in the same manner, of the same size and of the same shape.
38 Then he also made ten lavers of brass; each laver contained forty baths, and each laver measured four cubits; and he set a laver upon each one of the ten bases.
39 And he put five bases on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house, and he set the sea on the right side of the house to the east towards the Negev.
40 Hiram made the lavers and the shovels and the basins likewise. So Hiram finished all the work that he made King Solomon for the house of the LORD:
41 That is, the two pillars and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the head of the pillars,
42 and four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two orders of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the heads of the pillars,
43 and the ten bases and ten lavers upon the bases,
44 and one sea and twelve oxen under the sea,
45 and the pots and the shovels and the basins and all the other vessels, which Hiram made to King Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.
46 And the king caused them all to be cast in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
47 And Solomon did not inquire the weight of the brass of all the vessels because they were exceeding many.
48 ¶ And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: an altar of gold, and a table upon which the showbread was, also of gold,
49 and the lampstands of pure gold, five on the right hand, and five on the left, in front of the oracle, with the flowers and the lamps and the tongs of gold,
50 likewise the bowls and the snuffers and the basins and the spoons and the censers of pure gold, also the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the holy of holies, and for the doors of the house of the temple.
51 So all the work that King Solomon made for the house of the LORD was complete. And Solomon brought in the things which David, his father, had dedicated, even the silver and the gold and the vessels, and he kept it all in the treasury of the house of the LORD.
27 ¶ Then certain of the Sadducees came, who deny that there is any resurrection, and they asked him,
28 saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man’s brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, that his brother should take his wife and raise up seed unto his brother.
29 There were therefore seven brethren, and the first took a wife and died without children.
30 And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.
31 And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also, and they left no children and died.
32 Last of all the woman died also.
33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be? for seven had her to wife.
34 And Jesus answering said unto them, The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,
35 but those who are accounted worthy to obtain that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry, nor are given in marriage;
36 for neither can they die any more, for they are equal unto the angels and are the sons of God, being the sons of the resurrection.
37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed this at the bush when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living; for all live unto him.
39 ¶ Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said.
40 And after that they dared not ask him any question at all.
41 And he said unto them, How do they say that the Christ is David’s son?
42 And David himself says in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand
43 until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
44 David therefore calls him Lord; how is he then his son?
45 Then in the audience of all the people, he said unto his disciples,
46 Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes and love greetings in the markets and the first seats in the synagogues and the first places at suppers;
47 who devour the houses of the widows and for a pretext make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
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