2 Chronicles 2:1-5:1
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x Now Solomon purposed to build a temple for the name of the Lord, and a royal palace for himself.
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y And Solomon assigned 70,000 men to bear burdens and 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and z 3,600 to oversee them.
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a And Solomon sent word to Hiram the king of Tyre: b "As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedar to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me.
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Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the Lord my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of c incense of sweet spices before him, and for d the regular arrangement of the showbread, and for e burnt offerings morning and evening, f on the Sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the Lord our God, as ordained forever for Israel.
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The house that I am to build will be great, g for our God is greater than all gods.
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h But who is able to build him a house, since h heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him?
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So now i send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, j whom David my father provided.
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Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that k your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And my servants will be with your servants,
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to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am to build will be great and wonderful.
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l I will give for your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, 20,000 cors of crushed wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of oil."
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Then Hiram the king of Tyre answered in a letter that he sent to Solomon, m "Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you king over them."
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Hiram also said, "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, n who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, who has discretion and understanding, o who will build a temple for the Lord and a royal palace for himself.
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"Now I have sent a skilled man, who has understanding, Huram-abi,
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p the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is q trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father.
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Now therefore the wheat and barley, oil and wine, r of which my lord has spoken, let him send to his servants.
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s And we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you in rafts by sea to t Joppa, so that you may take it up to Jerusalem."
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Then Solomon counted all the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, u after the census of them that David his father had taken, and there were found 153,600.
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v Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.
2 Chronicles 3
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w Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem x on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, y on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.
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These are Solomon's z measurements for building the house of God: a the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
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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 its height was 120 cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold.
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b The nave he lined with cypress and covered it with fine gold c and made palms and chains on it.
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He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold of Parvaim.
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So he lined the house with gold - its beams, its thresholds, its walls, and its doors - c and he carved cherubim on the walls.
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d 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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The weight of gold for the nails was fifty shekels. And he overlaid e the upper chambers with gold.
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f In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of wood and overlaid them with gold.
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The wings of the cherubim together extended twenty cubits: one wing of the one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub;
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and of this cherub, one wing, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, also of five cubits, was joined to the wing of the first cherub.
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The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. The cherubim stood on their feet, g facing the nave.
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h And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and he worked cherubim on it.
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i In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each.
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He made chains like a necklace and put them on the tops of the pillars, and he made a hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains.
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j He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south, the other on the north; that on the south he called Jachin, and that on the north Boaz.
2 Chronicles 4
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He made k an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.
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l Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
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Under it were figures of 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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It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, and all their rear parts were inward.
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Its thickness was a handbreadth. And its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. m It held 3,000 baths.
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n He also made ten basins in which to wash, and set five on the south side, and five on the north side. In these they were to rinse off what was used for the burnt offering, and the sea was for the priests to wash in.
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And he made ten golden lampstands o as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.
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p He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. And he made a hundred basins of gold.
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He made q the court of the priests r and the great court and doors for the court and overlaid their doors with bronze.
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s And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house.
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t u Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. u So Hiram finished the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of God:
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the two pillars, v the bowls, and the two capitals on the top of the pillars; and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;
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w and the 400 pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.
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n He made the stands also, and the basins on the stands,
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and the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath it.
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The pots, the shovels, x the forks, and all the equipment for these t y Huram-abi made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the Lord.
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In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
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z Solomon made all these things in great quantities, for the weight of the bronze was not sought.
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So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God: the golden altar, a the tables for the bread of the Presence,
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the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold b to burn before the inner sanctuary, as prescribed;
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the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of purest gold;
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the snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and fire pans, of pure gold, and the sockets of the temple, for the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and for the doors of the nave of the temple were of gold.
2 Chronicles 5
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c Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.
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1 Kings 5:5
And so I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord said to David my father, 'Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.
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2 Chronicles 2:18
Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.
1 Kings 5:15 - 16
Solomon also had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country.
2 Chronicles 8:7 - 8
All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel.
1 Kings 9:20 - 21
All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel -
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1 Kings 5:16
Besides Solomon's 3,300 chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
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2 Chronicles 2:3 - 16
And Solomon sent word to Hiram the king of Tyre: "As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedar to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me.
1 Kings 5:2 - 11
And Solomon sent word to Hiram.
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1 Chronicles 14:1
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also masons and carpenters to build a house for him.
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Exodus 30:7
And Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it.
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Leviticus 24:5 - 8
You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.
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Numbers 28:3 - 8
And you shall say to them, This is the food offering that you shall offer to the Lord : two male lambs a year old without blemish, day by day, as a regular offering.
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2 Chronicles 8:13
As the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts - the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.
Numbers 28:9
On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:
Numbers 28:11
At the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord : two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish.
Numbers 28:19
But offer a food offering, a burnt offering to the Lord : two bulls from the herd, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; see that they are without blemish.
Numbers 28:26
On the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a grain offering of new grain to the Lord at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work.
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Psalms 135:5
For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
Exodus 15:11
Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
1 Chronicles 16:25
For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be held in awe above all gods.
Psalms 86:8
There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.
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2 Chronicles 6:18
But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!
1 Kings 8:27
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
Isaiah 66:1
Thus says the Lord : "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?
Acts 7:49
'Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?
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2 Chronicles 6:18
But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!
1 Kings 8:27
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
Isaiah 66:1
Thus says the Lord : "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?
Acts 7:49
Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?
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2 Chronicles 2:13 - 14
Now I have sent a skilled man, who has understanding, Huram-abi.
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1 Chronicles 22:15
You have an abundance of workmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and all kinds of craftsmen without number, skilled in working
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2 Chronicles 9:10 - 11
Moreover, the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum wood and precious stones.
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1 Kings 5:11
While Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, and 20,000 cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.
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2 Chronicles 9:8
Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the Lord your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness.
1 Kings 10:9
Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the Lord loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness.
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Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
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2 Chronicles 2:1
Now Solomon purposed to build a temple for the name of the Lord, and a royal palace for himself.
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1 Kings 7:14
He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. And he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.
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2 Chronicles 2:7
So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
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2 Chronicles 2:10
I will give for your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, 20,000 cors of crushed wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of oil.
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1 Kings 5:9
My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon, and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct. And I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it. And you shall meet my wishes by providing food for my household.
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Joshua 19:46
And Me-jarkon and Rakkon with the territory over against Joppa.
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1 Chronicles 22:2
David commanded to gather together the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the house of God.
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2 Chronicles 2:2
And Solomon assigned 70,000 men to bear burdens and 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 to oversee them.
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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.
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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Genesis 22:2
He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.
Genesis 22:14
So Abraham called the name of that place, "The Lord will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.
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1 Chronicles 21:15
And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:18
Now the angel of the Lord had commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:28
At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.
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Ezra 3:11
And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel." And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.
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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.
1 Kings 6:2 - 3
The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
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1 Kings 6:17
The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.
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1 Kings 6:29
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.
1 Kings 6:32
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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2 Chronicles 3:5
The nave he lined with cypress and covered it with fine gold and made palms and chains on it.
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1 Kings 6:16
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 the Most Holy Place.
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1 Chronicles 28:11
Then David gave Solomon his son the plan of the vestibule of the temple, and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, and its inner chambers, and of the room for the mercy seat.
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2 Chronicles 3:10 - 13
In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of wood and overlaid them with gold.
1 Kings 6:23 - 28
In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.
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Ezekiel 40:9
Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end.
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Exodus 26:31
And you shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. It shall be made with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
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2 Chronicles 3:15 - 16
In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each.
1 Kings 7:15 - 20
He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same.
1 Kings 7:15
He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same.
2 Kings 25:17
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and on it was a capital of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits. A latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were all around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with the latticework.
Jeremiah 52:21
As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, its circumference was twelve cubits, and its thickness was four fingers, and it was hollow.
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1 Kings 7:21
He set up the pillars at the vestibule of the temple. He set up the pillar on the south and called its name Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the north and called its name Boaz.
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2 Chronicles 7:7
And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court...
2 Chronicles 8:12
Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the ...
2 Chronicles 15:8
As soon as Asa heard these words, the prophecy ...
1 Kings 8:64
The same day the king consecrated the middle of...
2 Kings 16:14
And the bronze altar that was before the Lord h...
Ezekiel 43:13 - 17
These are the measurements of the altar by cubi...
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2 Chronicles 4:2 - 5
Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
1 Kings 7:23 - 26
Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
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1 Kings 7:26
Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.
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1 Kings 7:38 - 39
And he made ten basins of bronze. Each basin held forty baths, each basin measured four cubits, and there was a basin for each of the ten stands.
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2 Chronicles 4:20
The lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to burn before the inner sanctuary, as prescribed.
1 Kings 7:49
The lampstands of pure gold, five on the south side and five on the north, before the inner sanctuary; the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold.
Exodus 25:31 - 39
You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.
Exodus 27:20 - 21
You shall command the people of Israel that they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the light, that a lamp may regularly be set up to burn.
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2 Chronicles 4:19
So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God: the golden altar, the tables for the bread of the Presence.
1 Kings 7:48
So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the Lord : the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence.
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1 Kings 6:36
He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and one course of cedar beams.
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2 Chronicles 6:13
Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court, and he stood on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven.
2 Kings 21:5
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
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1 Kings 7:39
And he set the stands, five on the south side of the house, and five on the north side of the house. And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house.
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2 Chronicles 4:11 - 5:1
Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of God:
1 Kings 7:40 - 51
Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of the Lord :
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1 Kings 7:13 - 14
And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.
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1 Kings 7:13 - 14
And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.
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1 Kings 7:41
The two pillars, the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars, and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars.
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1 Kings 7:20
The capitals were on the two pillars and also above the rounded projection which was beside the latticework. There were two hundred pomegranates in two rows all around, and so with the other capital.
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2 Chronicles 4:6
He also made ten basins in which to wash, and set five on the south side, and five on the north side. In these they were to rinse off what was used for the burnt offering, and the sea was for the priests to wash in.
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1 Chronicles 28:17
And pure gold for the forks, the basins and the cups; for the golden bowls and the weight of each; for the silver bowls and the weight of each.
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2 Chronicles 4:11
Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of God:
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2 Chronicles 2:13
Now I have sent a skilled man, who has understanding, Huram-abi.
1 Kings 7:14
He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. And he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.
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1 Kings 7:47
And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not ascertained.
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2 Chronicles 4:8
He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. And he made a hundred basins of gold.
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2 Chronicles 4:7
And he made ten golden lampstands as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.
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2 Chronicles 5:1 - 10
Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.
1 Kings 7:51 - 8:9
Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.
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