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| 1In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the LORD. | 1Solomon began to build the temple for the LORD in the four hundred eightieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of his reign over Israel, in the second month, in the month of Ziv. |
| 2The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high. | 2The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high. |
| 3The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple, that is twenty cubits, and projected ten cubits from the front of the temple. | 3The portico in front of the temple sanctuary was 30 feet long extending across the temple's width, and 15 feet deep in front of the temple. |
| 4He made narrow windows high up in the temple walls. | 4He also made windows with beveled frames for the temple. |
| 5Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms. | 5He then built a chambered structure along the temple wall, encircling the walls of the temple, that is, the sanctuary and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around. |
| 6The lowest floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits and the third floor seven. He made offset ledges around the outside of the temple so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls. | 6The lowest chamber was 7 1/2 feet wide, the middle was nine feet wide, and the third was 10 1/2 feet wide. He also provided offset ledges for the temple all around the outside so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls. |
| 7In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built. | 7The temple's construction used finished stones cut at the quarry so that no hammer, chisel, or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built. |
| 8The entrance to the lowest floor was on the south side of the temple; a stairway led up to the middle level and from there to the third. | 8The door for the lowest side chamber was on the right side of the temple. They went up a stairway to the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third. |
| 9So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks. | 9When he finished building the temple, he paneled it with boards and planks of cedar. |
| 10And he built the side rooms all along the temple. The height of each was five cubits, and they were attached to the temple by beams of cedar. | 10He built the chambers along the entire temple, joined to the temple with cedar beams; each story was 7 1/2 feet high. |
| 11The word of the LORD came to Solomon: | 11The word of the LORD came to Solomon:" |
| 12"As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, observe my laws and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David your father. | 12As for this temple you are building--if you walk in My statutes, observe My ordinances, and keep all My commands by walking in them, I will fulfill My promise to you, which I made to your father David. |
| 13And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel." | 13I will live among the Israelites and not abandon My people Israel." |
| 14So Solomon built the temple and completed it. | 14When Solomon finished building the temple, |
| 15He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper. | 15he paneled the interior temple walls with cedar boards; from the temple floor to the surface of the ceiling he overlaid the interior with wood. He also overlaid the floor with cypress boards. |
| 16He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. | 16Then he lined 30 feet of the rear of the temple with cedar boards from the floor to the surface of the ceiling, and he built the interior as an inner sanctuary, the most holy place. |
| 17The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long. | 17The temple, that is, the sanctuary in front of the most holy place, was 60 feet long. |
| 18The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen. | 18The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with ornamental gourds and flower blossoms. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen. |
| 19He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there. | 19He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple to put the ark of the LORD's covenant there. |
| 20The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar. | 20The interior of the sanctuary was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high; he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the cedar altar. |
| 21Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold. | 21Next, Solomon overlaid the interior of the temple with pure gold, and he hung gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary and overlaid it with gold. |
| 22So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary. | 22So he added the gold overlay to the entire temple until everything was completely finished, including the entire altar that belongs to the inner sanctuary. |
| 23For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high. | 23In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim 15 feet high out of olive wood. |
| 24One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits--ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip. | 24One wing of the first cherub was 7 1/2 feet long, and the other wing was 7 1/2 feet long. The wingspan was 15 feet from tip to tip. |
| 25The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape. | 25The second cherub also was 15 feet; both cherubim had the same size and shape. |
| 26The height of each cherub was ten cubits. | 26The first cherub's height was 15 feet and so was the second cherub's. |
| 27He placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple, with their wings spread out. The wing of one cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the other touched the other wall, and their wings touched each other in the middle of the room. | 27Then he put the cherubim inside the inner temple. Since their wings were spread out, the first one's wing touched one wall while the second cherub's wing touched the other wall, and in the middle of the temple their wings were touching wing to wing. |
| 28He overlaid the cherubim with gold. | 28He also overlaid the cherubim with gold. |
| 29On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers. | 29He carved all the surrounding temple walls with carved engravings--cherubim, palm trees and flower blossoms--in both the inner and outer sanctuaries. |
| 30He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold. | 30He overlaid the temple floor with gold in both the inner and outer sanctuaries. |
| 31For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were one fifth of the width of the sanctuary. | 31For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made olive wood doors. The pillars of the doorposts were five-sided. |
| 32And on the two olive-wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold. | 32The two doors were made of olive wood. He carved cherubim, palm trees, and flower blossoms on them and overlaid them with gold, hammering gold over the cherubim and palm trees. |
| 33In the same way, for the entrance to the main hall he made doorframes out of olive wood that were one fourth of the width of the hall. | 33In the same way, he made four-sided olive wood doorposts for the sanctuary entrance. |
| 34He also made two doors out of juniper wood, each having two leaves that turned in sockets. | 34The two doors were made of cypress wood; the first door had two folding sides, and the second door had two folding panels. |
| 35He carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers on them and overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings. | 35He carved cherubim, palm trees, and flower blossoms on them and overlaid them with gold applied evenly over the carving. |
| 36And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams. | 36He built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams. |
| 37The foundation of the temple of the LORD was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv. | 37The foundation of the LORD's temple was laid in Solomon's fourth year in the month of Ziv. |
| 38In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in all its details according to its specifications. He had spent seven years building it. | 38In his eleventh year in the eighth month, in the month of Bul, the temple was completed in every detail and according to every specification. So he built it in seven years. |
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