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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

2 And the house which king Solomon built for the

3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits

4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.

5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about,

6 The nethermost chamber

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

8 The door for the middle chamber

9 So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

10 And

11 And the word of the

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

14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

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:

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

17 And the house, that

18 And the cedar of the house within

19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the

20 And the oracle in the forepart

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 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that

23 And within the oracle he made two cherubims

24 And five cubits

25 And the other cherub

26 The height of the one cherub

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

28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.

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 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.

31 And for the entering of the oracle he made doors

32 The two doors also

33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts

34 And the two doors

35 And he carved

36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.

37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the

38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which