1 Kings 6 NKJV NLT Parallel

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1And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come 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, that he began to build the house of the LORD.

1It was in midspring, in the month of Ziv, during the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, that he began to construct the Temple of the LORD. This was 480 years after the people of Israel were rescued from their slavery in the land of Egypt.

2Now the house which King Solomon built for the LORD, its length was sixty cubits, its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits.

2The Temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

3The vestibule in front of the sanctuary of the house was twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and the width of the vestibule extended ten cubits from the front of the house.

3The entry room at the front of the Temple was 30 feet wide, running across the entire width of the Temple. It projected outward 15 feet from the front of the Temple.

4And he made for the house windows with beveled frames.

4Solomon also made narrow recessed windows throughout the Temple.

5Against the wall of the temple he built chambers all around, against the walls of the temple, all around the sanctuary and the inner sanctuary. Thus he made side chambers all around it.

5He built a complex of rooms against the outer walls of the Temple, all the way around the sides and rear of the building.

6The lowest chamber was five cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for he made narrow ledges around the outside of the temple, so that the support beams would not be fastened into the walls of the temple.

6The complex was three stories high, the bottom floor being 7 1/2 feet wide, the second floor 9 feet wide, and the top floor 10 1/2 feet wide. The rooms were connected to the walls of the Temple by beams resting on ledges built out from the wall. So the beams were not inserted into the walls themselves.

7And the temple, when it was being built, was built with stone finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.

7The stones used in the construction of the Temple were finished at the quarry, so there was no sound of hammer, ax, or any other iron tool at the building site.

8The doorway for the middle story was on the right side of the temple. They went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third.

8The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the Temple. There were winding stairs going up to the second floor, and another flight of stairs between the second and third floors.

9So he built the temple and finished it, and he paneled the temple with beams and boards of cedar.

9After completing the Temple structure, Solomon put in a ceiling made of cedar beams and planks.

10And he built side chambers against the entire temple, each five cubits high; they were attached to the temple with cedar beams.

10As already stated, he built a complex of rooms along the sides of the building, attached to the Temple walls by cedar timbers. Each story of the complex was 7 1/2 feet high.

11Then the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying:

11Then the LORD gave this message to Solomon:

12“Concerning this temple which you are building, if you walk in My statutes, execute My judgments, keep all My commandments, and walk in them, then I will perform My word with you, which I spoke to your father David.

12“Concerning this Temple you are building, if you keep all my decrees and regulations and obey all my commands, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father, David.

13And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel.”

13I will live among the Israelites and will never abandon my people Israel.” The Temple’s Interior

14So Solomon built the temple and finished it.

14So Solomon finished building the Temple.

15And he built the inside walls of the temple with cedar boards; from the floor of the temple to the ceiling he paneled the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the temple with planks of cypress.

15The entire inside, from floor to ceiling, was paneled with wood. He paneled the walls and ceilings with cedar, and he used planks of cypress for the floors.

16Then he built the twenty-cubit room at the rear of the temple, from floor to ceiling, with cedar boards; he built it inside as the inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.

16He partitioned off an inner sanctuary—the Most Holy Place—at the far end of the Temple. It was 30 feet deep and was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.

17And in front of it the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long.

17The main room of the Temple, outside the Most Holy Place, was 60 feet long.

18The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with ornamental buds and open flowers. All was cedar; there was no stone to be seen.

18Cedar paneling completely covered the stone walls throughout the Temple, and the paneling was decorated with carvings of gourds and open flowers.

19And he prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple, to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.

19He prepared the inner sanctuary at the far end of the Temple, where the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant would be placed.

20The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid it with pure gold, and overlaid the altar of cedar.

20This inner sanctuary was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He overlaid the inside with solid gold. He also overlaid the altar made of cedar.

21So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold. He stretched gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.

21Then Solomon overlaid the rest of the Temple’s interior with solid gold, and he made gold chains to protect the entrance to the Most Holy Place.

22The whole temple he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the temple; also he overlaid with gold the entire altar that was by the inner sanctuary.

22So he finished overlaying the entire Temple with gold, including the altar that belonged to the Most Holy Place.

23Inside the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

23He made two cherubim of wild olive wood, each 15 feet tall, and placed them in the inner sanctuary.

24One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the cherub five cubits: ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.

24The wingspan of each of the cherubim was 15 feet, each wing being 7 1/2 feet long.

25And the other cherub was ten cubits; both cherubim were of the same size and shape.

25The two cherubim were identical in shape and size;

26The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other cherub.

26each was 15 feet tall.

27Then he set the cherubim inside the inner room; and they stretched out the wings of the cherubim so that the wing of the one touched one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall. And their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.

27He placed them side by side in the inner sanctuary of the Temple. Their outspread wings reached from wall to wall, while their inner wings touched at the center of the room.

28Also he overlaid the cherubim with gold.

28He overlaid the two cherubim with gold.

29Then he carved all the walls of the temple all around, both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.

29He decorated all the walls of the inner sanctuary and the main room with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.

30And the floor of the temple he overlaid with gold, both the inner and outer sanctuaries.

30He overlaid the floor in both rooms with gold.

31For the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood; the lintel and doorposts were one-fifth of the wall.

31For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, he made double doors of wild olive wood with five-sided doorposts.

32The two doors were of olive wood; and he carved on them figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.

32These double doors were decorated with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. The doors, including the decorations of cherubim and palm trees, were overlaid with gold.

33So for the door of the sanctuary he also made doorposts of olive wood, one-fourth of the wall.

33Then he made four-sided doorposts of wild olive wood for the entrance to the Temple.

34And the two doors were of cypress wood; two panels comprised one folding door, and two panels comprised the other folding door.

34There were two folding doors of cypress wood, and each door was hinged to fold back upon itself.

35Then he carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers on them, and overlaid them with gold applied evenly on the carved work.

35These doors were decorated with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers—all overlaid evenly with gold.

36And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.

36The walls of the inner courtyard were built so that there was one layer of cedar beams between every three layers of finished stone.

37In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid, in the month of Ziv.

37The foundation of the LORD’s Temple was laid in midspring, in the month of Ziv, during the fourth year of Solomon’s reign.

38And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its details and according to all its plans. So he was seven years in building it.

38The entire building was completed in every detail by midautumn, in the month of Bul, during the eleventh year of his reign. So it took seven years to build the Temple.

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