1 Kings 6:4-10

Solomon Builds the Temple

4 And b he made for the house windows with recessed frames. 1 5 c He also built a structure 2 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. 6 The lowest story 3 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.

7 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.

8 The entrance for the lowest 4 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. 9 g So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar. 10 He built the structure against the whole house, five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.

  1. 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.
  2. Cross References
    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.
  3. 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...
  4. Cross References
    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.
  5. Cross References
    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.
  6. 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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