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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. | 1In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, during the month Ziv (the second month), he began building the LORD's temple. |
| 2The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high. | 2The temple 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 porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet wide, extending out from the front of the temple. |
| 4He made narrow windows high up in the temple walls. | 4He made framed windows 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 built an extension all around the walls of the temple's main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it. |
| 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 bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet wide, the middle floor nine feet wide, and the third floor ten and a half feet wide. He made ledges on the temple's outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the 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. | 7As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at 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 entrance to the bottom level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up to the middle floor and then on up to the third floor. |
| 9So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks. | 9He finished building the temple and covered it with rafters and boards made 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 an extension all around the temple; it was seven and a half feet high and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams. |
| 11The word of the LORD came to Solomon: | 11The LORD said 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. | 12"As for this temple you are building, if you follow my rules, observe my regulations, and obey all my commandments, I will fulfill through you the promise 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 will not abandon my people Israel." |
| 14So Solomon built the temple and completed it. | 14So 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 constructed the walls inside the temple with cedar planks; he paneled the inside with wood from the floor of the temple to the rafters of the ceiling. He covered the temple floor with boards made from the wood of evergreens. |
| 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. | 16He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters. |
| 17The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long. | 17The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary 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 inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible. |
| 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 so that the ark of the covenant of the LORD could be placed 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 inner sanctuary was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He plated it with gold, as well as 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. | 21Solomon plated the inside of the temple with gold. He hung golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary and plated the inner sanctuary with gold. |
| 22So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary. | 22He plated the entire inside of the temple with gold, as well as the altar inside 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 cherubs of olive wood; each stood 15 feet high. |
| 24One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits--ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip. | 24Each of the first cherub's wings was seven and a half feet long; its entire wingspan was 15 feet. |
| 25The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape. | 25The second cherub also had a wingspan of 15 feet; it was identical to the first in measurements and shape. |
| 26The height of each cherub was ten cubits. | 26Each cherub stood 15 feet high. |
| 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. | 27He put the cherubs in the inner sanctuary of the temple. Their wings were spread out. One of the first cherub's wings touched one wall and one of the other cherub's wings touched the opposite wall. The first cherub's other wing touched the second cherub's other wing in the middle of the room. |
| 28He overlaid the cherubim with gold. | 28He plated the cherubs with gold. |
| 29On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers. | 29On all the walls around the temple, inside and out, he carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom. |
| 30He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold. | 30He plated the floor of the temple with gold, inside and out. |
| 31For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were one fifth of the width of the sanctuary. | 31He made doors of olive wood at the entrance to the inner sanctuary; the pillar on each doorpost was 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. | 32On the two doors made of olive wood he carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold. He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold. |
| 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 doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, only with four-sided pillars. |
| 34He also made two doors out of juniper wood, each having two leaves that turned in sockets. | 34He also made two doors out of wood from evergreens; each door had two folding leaves. |
| 35He carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers on them and overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings. | 35He carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom and plated them with gold, leveled out over the carvings. |
| 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 chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams. |
| 37The foundation of the temple of the LORD was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv. | 37In the month Ziv of the fourth year of Solomon's reign the foundation was laid for the LORD's temple. |
| 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 the eleventh year, in the month Bul (the eighth month) the temple was completed in accordance with all its specifications and blueprints. It took seven years to build. |
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