I Kings Chapter 6

I Kings Chapter 6
1 And in the four hundred and fourscore
year (after the children of Israel were
come out of the land of Egypt) and in the
fourth year of the reign of Solomon over
Israel, in the month Zif, (which is the
second month) he built the house of the
Lord.
2 And the house which king Solomon
built for the Lord, was threescore cubits
long, and twenty broad, and thirty cubits
high.
3 And the porch before the temple of the
house was twenty cubits long according
to the breadth of the house, and ten
cubits broad before the house. 4 And in
the house he made windows, broad
without, and narrow within. 5 And by
the wall of the house he made galleries
round about, even by the walls of the
house round about the temple and the
oracle, and made chambers round about.
6 The nethermost gallery was five cubits
broad, and the middlemost six cubits
broad, and the third seven cubits broad:
for he made rests round about without
the house, that the beams should not be
fastened in the walls of the house.
7 And when the house was built, it was
built of stone perfect , before it was
brought, so that there was neither
hammer, nor ax, nor any tool of iron
heard in the house, while it was in
building.
8 The door of the middle chamber was
in the right side of the house, and men
went up with winding stairs into the
middlemost, and out of the middlemost
into the third.
9 So he built the house and finished it,
and sealed the house being vaulted with
ceiling of cedar trees.
10 And he built the galleries upon all the
wall of the house of five cubits height,
and they were joined to the house with
beams of cedar.
11 And the word of the Lord came to
Solomon, saying,
12 Concerning this house which thou
buildest, if thou wilt walk in mine
ordinances, and execute my judgments,
and keep all my commandments, to walk
in them, then will I perform unto thee my
promise, which I promised to David thy
father.
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 built the walls of the house
within, with boards of cedar tree from
the pavement of the house unto the walls
of the ceiling, and within he covered
them with wood, and covered the floor
of the house with planks of fir. 16 And
he built twenty cubits in the sides of the
house with boards of cedar, from the
floor to the walls, and he prepared a
place within it for the oracle, even the
most holy place.
17 But the house, that is, the temple
before it, was forty cubits long. 18 And
the cedar of the house within was carved
with knops, and graven with flowers: all
was cedar, so that no stone was seen. 19
Also he prepared the place of the oracle
in the midst of the house within, to set
the ark of the covenant of the Lord there.
20 And the place of the oracle within
was twenty cubits long, and twenty
cubits broad, and twenty cubits high, and
he covered it with pure gold, and
covered the altar with cedar.
21 So Solomon covered the house within
with pure gold: and he shut the place of
the oracle with chains of gold, and
covered it with gold. 22 And he overlaid
all the house with gold, until all the
house was made perfect. also he
covered the whole altar, that was before
the oracle, with gold. 23 And within the
oracle he made two cherubims of olive
tree, ten cubits high. 24 The wing also of
the one cherub was five cubits, and the
wing of the other cherub was five cubits:
from the uttermost part of one of his
wings unto the uttermost part of the other
of his wings, were ten cubits. 25 Also
the other cherub was of ten cubits: both
the cherubims were of one measure and
one size.
26 For the height of the one cherub was
ten cubits, and so was the other cherub.
27 And he put the cherubims within the
inner house, and the cherubims stretched
out their wings, so that the wing of the
one touched the one wall, and the wing
of the other cherub touched the other
wall: and their other wings touched one
another in the midst of the house.
28 And he overlaid the cherubims with
gold.
29 And he carved all the walls of the
house round about with graven figures of
cherubims and of palm trees, and graven
flowers within and without. 30 And the
floor of the house he covered with gold
within and without. 31 And in the
entering of the oracle he made two doors
of olive tree: and the upper post and
side posts were five square.
32 The two doors also were of olive
tree, and he graved them with graving of
cherubims and palm trees, and graven
flowers, and covered them with gold,
and laid thin gold upon the cherubims
and upon the palm trees.
33 And so made he for the door of the
temple, posts of olive tree four square.
34 But the two doors were of fir tree, the
two sides of the one door were round,
and the two sides of the other door were
round. 35 And he graved cherubims, and
palm trees, and carved flowers and
covered the carved work with gold,
finely wrought.
36 And he built the court within with
three rows of hewed stone, and one row
of beams of cedar.
37 In the fourth year was the foundation
of the house of the Lord laid in the month
of Zif:
38 And in the eleventh year in the month
of Bul, (which is the eighth month) he
finished the house with all the furniture
thereof, and in every point: so was he
seven year in building it.