1 Kings 6
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y In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came 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, z he began to build the house of the Lord.
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a The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
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The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.
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And b he made for the house windows with recessed frames.
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c He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and d the inner sanctuary. And he made e side chambers all around.
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The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.
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When the house was built, f it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.
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The entrance for the lowest story was on the south side of the house, and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.
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g So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.
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He built the structure against the whole house, five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.
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Now the word of the Lord came to Solomon,
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"Concerning this house that you are building, h if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, i which I spoke to David your father.
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And j I will dwell among the children of Israel k and will not forsake my people Israel."
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l So Solomon built the house and finished it.
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He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar. From the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood, m and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.
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n He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as o the Most Holy Place.
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The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.
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The cedar within the house was carved in the form of p gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen.
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The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
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The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid an altar of cedar.
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And Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold, and he drew chains of gold across, in front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.
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And he overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. q Also the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.
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r In the inner sanctuary s he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.
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Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.
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The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form.
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The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.
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He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house. t And the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house.
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And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
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Around all the walls of the house he carved engraved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.
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The floor of the house he overlaid with gold in the inner and outer rooms.
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For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts were five-sided.
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He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. He overlaid them with gold and spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.
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So also he made for the entrance to the nave doorposts of olivewood, in the form of a square,
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and two doors of cypress wood. u The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
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On them he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work.
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v He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and one course of cedar beams.
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w In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of Ziv.
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And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 3:1 - 2
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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Acts 7:47
But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
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2 Chronicles 3:3 - 4
These are Solomon's measurements for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
Ezekiel 40:1 - 42:1
In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me to the city.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 40:16
And the gateway had windows all around, narrowing inwards toward the side rooms and toward their jambs, and likewise the vestibule had windows all around inside, and on the jambs were palm trees.
Ezekiel 41:16
The thresholds and the narrow windows and the galleries all around the three of them, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered).
Ezekiel 41:26
And there were narrow windows and palm trees on either side, on the sidewalls of the vestibule, the side chambers of the temple, and the canopies.
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Ezekiel 41:6
And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.
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Cross References
1 Kings 6:16
He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house...
1 Kings 6:19 - 20
The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermos...
1 Kings 6:23
In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of ...
1 Kings 6:31
For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made...
1 Kings 7:49
The lampstands of pure gold, five on the south ...
1 Kings 8:6
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenan...
1 Kings 8:8
And the poles were so long that the ends of the...
2 Chronicles 4:20
The lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to ...
2 Chronicles 5:7
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenan...
2 Chronicles 5:9
And the poles were so long that the ends of the...
Psalms 28:2
Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy, when I cr...
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Ezekiel 41:5 - 6
Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple.
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1 Kings 5:18
So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.
Deuteronomy 27:5 - 6
And there you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. You shall wield no iron tool on them.
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Cross References
1 Kings 6:14
So Solomon built the house and finished it.
1 Kings 6:38
And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.
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Cross References
1 Kings 9:4
And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules.
1 Kings 2:4
That the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.
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Cross References
2 Samuel 7:13
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
1 Chronicles 22:10
He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.
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Exodus 25:8
And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst.
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Deuteronomy 31:6
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.
Deuteronomy 31:8
It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.
Joshua 1:5
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.
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Cross References
1 Kings 6:9
So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.
1 Kings 6:38
And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.
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Cross References
1 Kings 7:7
And he made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgment, even the Hall of Judgment. It was finished with cedar from floor to rafters.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 3:8
And he made the Most Holy Place. Its length, corresponding to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth was twenty cubits. He overlaid it with 600 talents of fine gold.
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Cross References
1 Kings 7:50
The cups, snuffers, basins, dishes for incense,...
1 Kings 8:6
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenan...
Exodus 26:33 - 34
And you shall hang the veil from the clasps, an...
2 Chronicles 3:8
And he made the Most Holy Place. Its length, co...
Ezekiel 45:3
And from this measured district you shall measu...
Hebrews 9:3
Behind the second curtain was a second section ...
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Cross References
1 Kings 7:24
Under its brim were gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.
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Cross References
Exodus 30:1
You shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.
Exodus 30:3
You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it.
Exodus 30:6
And you shall put it in front of the veil that is above the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is above the testimony, where I will meet with you.
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Cross References
1 Kings 6:23 - 27
In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.
2 Chronicles 3:10 - 12
In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of wood and overlaid them with gold.
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Exodus 37:7 - 9
And he made two cherubim of gold. He made them of hammered work on the two ends of the mercy seat.
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Cross References
1 Kings 8:7
For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.
Exodus 25:20
The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.
Exodus 37:9
The cherubim spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat were the faces of the cherubim.
2 Chronicles 5:8
The cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles.
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Ezekiel 41:24
The double doors had two leaves apiece, two swinging leaves for each door.
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1 Kings 7:12
The great court had three courses of cut stone all around, and a course of cedar beams; so had the inner court of the house of the Lord and the vestibule of the house.
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Cross References
1 Kings 6:1
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came 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, he began to build the house of the Lord.
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