1 Kings 6

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year ofSolomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began building the Temple ofYahweh.	1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
2 The temple which King Solomon built for Yahweh was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and twenty-five high.	2 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.
3 The portico in front of the Hekal of the Temple was twenty cubits long across the width of the Templeand ten cubits wide along the length of the Temple.	3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
4 He made windows for the Temple with frames and latticework.	4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
5 He also built an annex against the Temple wal , right round the Hekal and Debir. He built lateral storeysal round;	5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
6 the lowest lateral storey was five cubits wide, the middle one six cubits, and the third seven cubits, for hehad made the outside of the Temple wal correspondingly stepped back al round, so that the annex was notattached to the Temple wal s.	6 The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
7 (The building of the Temple was done with quarry -- dressed stone; no sound of hammer or pick or anyiron tool was to be heard in the Temple while it was being built.)	7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
8 The entrance to the lowest storey was at the right-hand corner of the Temple; access to the middlestorey was by a spiral staircase, and so from the middle storey to the third.	8 The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
9 Having finished building the Temple, he roofed the Temple with a coffered ceiling of cedar wood.	9 So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
10 Round the outside of the Temple he then built the annex which was five cubits high and was joined tothe Temple by cedar-wood beams.	10 And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
11 And the word of Yahweh came to Solomon,	11 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
12 'With regard to this temple which you are now building, if you follow my statutes and obey myordinances and faithful y follow my commandments, I shal fulfil the promise which I made about you to yourfather David.	12 Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:
13 And I shal make my home among the Israelites and never forsake Israel my people.'	13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
14 Solomon finished building the Temple.	14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
15 He lined the inside of the Temple wal s with panels of cedar wood-panelling them on the inside fromthe floor of the Temple to the beams of the ceiling -- and laid the floor of the Temple with juniper planks.	15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
16 The twenty cubits measured from the end of the Temple he built of cedar planks from the floor to thebeams, and this part was reserved as the Debir, the Holy of Holies.	16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
17 The Temple measured forty cubits -- the Hekal -- in front of the Debir.	17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
18 There was cedar wood round the inside of the Temple, ornamentally carved with gourds and rosettes;al was cedar wood, with no stone showing.	18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
19 In the inner part of the Temple he designed a Debir, to contain the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.	19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
20 The Debir was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty high, and he overlaid it on the insidewith pure gold. He made an altar of cedar wood	20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.
21 in front of the Debir and overlaid it with gold.	21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
22 He overlaid the whole Temple with gold, the whole Temple entirely.	22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.
23 In the Debir he made two great winged creatures of wild-olive wood. . .It was ten cubits high.	23 And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.
24 One winged creature's wing was five cubits long and the other wing five cubits: ten cubits from wing tipto wing tip.	24 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
25 The other winged creature also measured ten cubits; both had the same measurements and the sameshape.	25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and one size.
26 The height of one was the same as the other's.	26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
27 He placed them in the middle of the inner chamber; their wings were spread out so that the wing of onetouched one of the wal s and the wing of the other touched the other wall, while their wings met in the middle ofthe chamber wing to wing.	27 And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
28 And he overlaid them with gold.	28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
29 Al round the Temple wal s he carved figures of winged creatures, palm trees and rosettes, both insideand outside.	29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
30 He overlaid the floor of the Temple with gold, both inside and outside.	30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
31 He made the door of the Debir with uprights of wild-olive wood, and door jambs with five indentedsections,	31 And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
32 and the two leaves of wild-olive wood. He carved figures of great winged creatures, palm trees androsettes which he overlaid with gold, and he gilded winged creatures and palm trees.	32 The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
33 Similarly, he made uprights of wild-olive wood for the door of the Hekal, and door jambs with fourindented sections,	33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
34 and the two leaves of juniper: one leaf had two ribs binding it, and the other had two ribs binding it.	34 And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
35 He carved winged creatures, palm trees and rosettes, which he overlaid with gold laid evenly over thecarvings.	35 And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
36 He built the wal of the inner court in three courses of dressed stone and one course of cedar beams.	36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
37 In the fourth year, in the month of Ziv, the foundations of the Temple were laid;	37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
38 in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul -- that is, the eighth month -- the Temple was completedexactly as it had been planned and designed. Solomon took seven years to build it.	38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.