I kings 6 Solomon builds the temple

 I kings 6

Solomon builds the temple

1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year, after the children of Israel had come out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv (this is the second month), that he began to build the house of the LORD .
2 And the house which king Solomon built unto the LORD was sixty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
3 And the portico before the temple of the house was twenty cubits long, according to the width of the house, and ten cubits wide before the house.
4 And he made the house windows with narrow views.
5 He built chambers round the wall of the house, round the walls of the house, both the temple and the oracle: and so he made side chambers round about.
6 The lower chamber was five cubits wide, the middle one six cubits wide, and the third seven cubits wide; for around the outside of the house he had made fences, so that they would not stop against the walls of the house.
7 The house was built with prepared stones, as they brought them; so that neither hammer nor ax nor any other instrument of iron was heard in the house when they were building it.
8 The door of the chamber in the middle was on the right side of the house, and by snails went up to the middle one, and from the middle one to the third.
9 So he built the house, and perfected it: and overlaid the house with planks and planks of cedar.
10 He also built chambers for the whole house, five cubits high, and barred them to the house with cedar wood.
11 Then came the word of the LORD to Solomon, saying,
12 As for this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and do my judgments, and keep all my commandments, walking in them, then you will confirm my word to you, which I spoke to David your father:
13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel.
14 So Solomon built the house and perfected it.
15 He also covered the inside walls of the house with cedar boards; from the floor of the house to the ceiling he covered everything with wood inside, and he covered the floor of the house with beech planks.
16 He built twenty cubits of cedar boards on the sides of the house, from the floor to the walls: and he built them inside for the oracle, for the Holy of Holies.
17 So the house was forty cubits long, that is, the inner temple.
18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with open flower buds: all was cedar, not a stone was seen.
19 And within the inner house he prepared the oracle, to place there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
20 And the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits high: and he overlaid it with pure gold: he also overlaid the altar with cedar.
21 And Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold: and with chains of gold he put a veil before the oracle, and overlaid it with gold.
22 So he overlaid the whole house with gold, until the whole house was finished: also the whole altar that was before the oracle he overlaid with gold.
23 And in the oracle he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
24 And one wing of a cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of a cherub was five cubits; ten cubits were from the end of one of its wings to the end of the other of its wings.
25 So was the other cherub ten cubits: both cherubim were of the same measure and of the same height.
26 The height of one cherub is ten cubits, and likewise that of the other cherub.
27 And he put these cherubim in the midst of the inner house; and the cherubim stretched out their wings, so that the wing of one cherubim touched the wall, and the wing of the other cherubim touched the other wall, and their wings in the middle of the house touched one another.
28 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29 And he engraved all the walls of the house round about with carvings and carvings of cherubim, and palm trees, and open flowers, within and without.
30 He also overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inside and out.
31 And at the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood: the lintel with the posts made a fifth part of the wall.
32 Also the two doors were of oilwood; and he engraved on them engravings of cherubim, and of palm trees, and of open flowers, which he overlaid with gold: he also spread gold upon the cherubim, and upon the palm trees.
33 And so he made posts for the door of the temple of oilwood, from the fourth part of the wall.
34 And the two doors were of beech wood: and the two leaves of one door were hinges, just as the two carved leaves of the other doors were also hinges.
35 And he carved them with cherubim, and palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold accommodated to work.
36 He also built the inner courtyard with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.
37 In the fourth year he laid the foundation of the house of the LORD, in the month of Ziv.
38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bil, which is the eighth month, this house was finished, with all its parts, and with all that suited it: and he built it in seven years.