6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come 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.
6:2 The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high.
6:3 The 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.
6:4 He made narrow clerestory windows in the temple.
6:5 Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms.
6:6 The 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.
6:7 In 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.
6:8 The 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.
6:9 So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks.
6:10 And 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.
6:11 The word of the LORD came to Solomon:
6:12 “As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, carry out my regulations and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David your father.
6:13 And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”
6:14 So Solomon built the temple and completed it.
6:15 He 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 pine.
6:16 He 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.
6:17 The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
6:18 The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.
6:19 He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
6:20 The 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.
6:21 Solomon 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.
6:22 So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
6:23 In the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
6:24 One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits–ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip.
6:25 The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape.
6:26 The height of each cherub was ten cubits.
6:27 He 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.
6:28 He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
6:29 On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers.
6:30 He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.
6:31 For the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood with five-sided jambs.
6:32 And on the two olive wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with beaten gold.
6:33 In the same way he made four-sided jambs of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall.
6:34 He also made two pine doors, each having two leaves that turned in sockets.
6:35 He carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers on them and overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.
6:36 And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.
6:37 The foundation of the temple of the LORD was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv.
6:38 In 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.
6:1 Then in the four hundred eightieth year after the children of Israel had come forth out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of his reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv (this is the second month), Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah.
6:2 And the house which King Solomon built to Jehovah was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
6:3 And the portico that was before the temple of the house was twenty cubits long, across the width of the house, and ten cubits deep, in front of the house.
6:4 And for the house he made windows with fixed lattices.
6:5 And against the wall of the house he built a structure with stories all around, next to the walls of the house all around the temple and the innermost sanctuary; and he made side chambers all around.
6:6 The lowest story was five cubits wide; and the middle, six cubits wide; and the third, seven cubits wide; for he provided for outsets to the house all around the outside, so that the beams would not be inserted into the walls of the house.
6:7 And the house, when it was being built, was built of finished stone, cut at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor ax nor any iron tool was heard in the house when it was being built.
6:8 The door of the middle side chamber was on the right side of the house; and they went up by winding stairs into the middle story, and from the middle into the third.
6:9 So he built the house and finished it, and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
6:10And he built the stories against all the house, five cubits high; and the structure was held to the house by cedar timbers.
6:11 Then the word of Jehovah came to Solomon, saying,
6:12 As for this house that you are building, if you walk in My statutes and execute My ordinances and keep all My commandments by walking in them, then I will establish My word with you, which I spoke to David your father;
6:13 And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and I will not forsake My people Israel.
6:14 So Solomon built the house and finished it.
6:15 And he built the walls of the house within with cedar boards; from the floor of the house to the wall of the ceiling he covered them on the inside with wood. And he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress.
6:16 And he built twenty cubits of the rear part of the house with cedar boards from the floor to the walls of the ceiling; and he built it within as an innermost sanctuary, as the Holy of Holies.
6:17 And the house, that is, the temple before the Holy of Holies, was forty cubits long.
6:18 And there was cedar on the house within, carved with gourds and open flowers. It was all cedar; there was no stone showing.
6:19 And he prepared an innermost sanctuary in the midst of the house within, in order to put the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah there.
6:20 And the interior of the innermost sanctuary was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and twenty cubits high; and he overlaid it with pure gold, and he overlaid the cedar altar.
6:21 And Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold; and he drew gold chains before the innermost sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.
6:22 So he overlaid all the house with gold, until all the house was complete; and the whole altar, which belonged to the innermost sanctuary, he overlaid with gold.
6:23 And in the innermost sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, ten cubits high.
6:24 And the one wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the second wing of the cherub was five cubits; ten cubits from the end of its one wing to the end of its other wing.
6:25 And the second cherub was ten cubits; both cherubim had one measure and one shape.
6:26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the second cherub.
6:27 And he put the cherubim in the midst of the inner house. And the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that the wing of the one cherub was touching the wall and the wing of the second cherub was touching the second wall; and their other wings were touching at the middle of the house, wing to wing.
6:28 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
6:29 And he carved all the walls of the house all around with engraved carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in both the inner chamber and the outer one.
6:30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, in both the inner chamber and the outer one.
6:31 And for the entrance of the innermost sanctuary he made doors of olive wood; the lintel and doorposts were a fifth of the breadth of the wall.
6:32 And there were two doors of olive wood. And he carved carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers upon them, and he overlaid them with gold and spread the gold upon the cherubim and the palm trees.
6:33 So also he made for the entrance of the temple doorposts of olive wood, out of a fourth of the breadth of the wall,
6:34 And two doors of cypress wood; the two leaves of the one door folded, and the two leaves of the second door folded.
6:35 And he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers on them, and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied over the carved work.
6:36 And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone and a course of cedar beams.
6:37 In the fourth year the foundation of the house of Jehovah was laid, in the month of Ziv;
6:38 And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul (which is the eighth month) the house was completed in all its parts and according to all its specifications. Thus he was seven years building it.