Solomon & The Temple

And Salomon had seuentie thousand that bare burdens, and fourescore thousand masons in the mountaine,

Besides the princes, whome Salomon appoynted ouer the worke, euen three thousande and three hundreth, which ruled the people that wrought in the worke.

And the King commanded them, and they brought great stones and costly stones to make the foundation of the house, euen hewed stones.

And Salomons workemen, and the workemen of Hiram, and the masons hewed and prepared timber and stones for the buylding of the house.

And in the foure hundreth and foure score yeere (after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt) and in the fourth yere of the reigne of Salomon ouer Israel, in the moneth Zif, (which is the second moneth) he built the house of the Lord.

And the house which King Salomon built for the Lord, was three score cubites long, and twentie broade, and thirtie cubites hie.

And the porch before the Temple of the house was twentie cubites long according to the breadth of the house, and ten cubites broade before the house.

And in the house he made windowes, broad without, and narrowe within.

And by the wall of the house hee made galleries round about, euen by the walles of the house round about the Temple and the oracle, and made chambers round about.

The nethermost gallerie was fiue cubites broade, and the middlemost sixe cubites broade, and the third seuen cubites broade: for he made restes round about without the house, that the beames should not be fastened in the walles of the house.

And when the house was built, it was built of stone perfite, before it was brought, so that there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any toole of yron heard in the house, while it was in building.

The doore of the middle chamber was in the right side of the house, and men went vp with winding stayres into the middlemost, and out of the middlemost into the third.

So he built the house and finished it, and sieled the house being vawted with sieling of cedar trees.

And he built the galleries vpon al the wall of the house of fiue cubites height, and they were ioyned to the house with beames of cedar.

And the worde of the Lord came to Salomon, saying,

Cocerning this house which thou buildest, if thou wilt walke in mine ordinances, and execute my iudgements, and keepe al my commadements, to walke in them, then will I performe vnto thee my promise, which I promised to Dauid thy father.

And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and wil not forsake my people Israel.

So Salomon built the house and finished it,

And built the walles of the house within, with boards of cedar tree from the pauement of the house vnto the walles of the sieling, and within he couered them with wood, and couered the floore of the house with planks of firre.

And he built twentie cubites in the sides of the house with boards of cedar, from the floore to the walles, and he prepared a place within it for the oracle, euen the most holy place.

But the house, that is, the Temple before it, was fourtie cubites long.

And the cedar of the house within was carued with knops, and grauen with floures: all was cedar, so that no stone was seene.

Also he prepared the place of the oracle in the mids of the house within, to set the Arke of the couenant of the Lord there.

And the place of the oracle within was twentie cubites long, and twentie cubites broad, and twentie cubites hie, and hee couered it with pure golde, and couered the altar with cedar.

So Salomon couered the house within with pure golde: and he shut the place of the oracle with chaines of gold, and couered it with golde.