Solomon & The Temple

And king Solomon hath seventy thousand bearing burdens, and eighty thousand hewing in the mountain,

apart from the heads of the officers of Solomon, who are over the work, three thousand and three hundred, those ruling over the people who are working in the business.

And the king commandeth, and they bring great stones, precious stone, to lay the foundation of the house, hewn stones;

and the builders of Solomon, and the builders of Hiram, and the Giblites hew, and prepare the wood and the stones to build the house.

And it cometh to pass, in the four hundred and eightieth year of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year--in the month of Zif, it is the second month--of the reigning of Solomon over Israel, that he buildeth the house for Jehovah.

As to the house that king Solomon hath built for Jehovah, sixty cubits is its length, and twenty its breadth, and thirty cubits its height.

As to the porch on the front of the temple of the house, twenty cubits is its length on the front of the breadth of the house; ten by the cubit is its breadth on the front of the house;

and he maketh for the house windows of narrow lights.

And he buildeth against the wall of the house a couch round about, even the walls of the house round about, of the temple and of the oracle, and maketh sides round about.

The lowest couch, five by the cubit is its breadth; and the middle, six by the cubit is its breadth; and the third, seven by the cubit is its breadth, for withdrawings he hath put to the house round about, without--not to lay hold on the walls of the house.

And the house, in its being built, of perfect stone brought thither hath been built, and hammer, and the axe--any instrument of iron--was not heard in the house, in its being built.

The opening of the middle side is at the right shoulder of the house, and with windings they go up on the middle one, and from the middle one unto the third.

And he buildeth the house, and completeth it, and covereth the house with beams and rows of cedars.

And he buildeth the couch against all the house, five cubits is its height, and it taketh hold of the house by cedar-wood.

And the word of Jehovah is unto Solomon, saying,

`This house that thou art building--if thou dost walk in My statutes, and My judgments dost do, yea, hast done all My commands, to walk in them, then I have established My word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father,

and have tabernacled in the midst of the sons of Israel, and do not forsake My people Israel.'

And Solomon buildeth the house and completeth it;

and he buildeth the walls of the house within with beams of cedar, from the floor of the house unto the walls of the ceiling; he hath overlaid with wood the inside, and covereth the floor of the house with ribs of fir.

And he buildeth the twenty cubits on the sides of the house with ribs of cedar, from the floor unto the walls; and he buildeth for it within, for the oracle, for the holy of holies.

And forty by the cubit was the house, it is the temple before it .

And the cedar for the house within is carvings of knobs and openings of flowers; the whole is cedar, there is not a stone seen.

And the oracle in the midst of the house within he hath prepared, to put there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.

And before the oracle is twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits is its height; and he overlayeth it with gold refined, and overlayeth the altar with cedar.

And Solomon overlayeth the house within with gold refined, and causeth it to pass over in chains of gold before the oracle, and overlayeth it with gold.