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The Third
Book of Kings 6
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth
year after the children of Israel came out of the land
of Egypt, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon
over Israel, in the month Zio (the same is the second
month), he began to build a house to the Lord.
And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord,
was threescore cubits in length, and twenty cubits in
breadth, and thirty cubits in height.
And there was a porch before the temple of twenty cubits
in length, according to the measure of the breadth of
the temple: and it was ten cubits in breadth before
the face of the temple.
And he made in the temple oblique windows.
And upon the wall of the temple he built floors round
about, in the walls of the house round about the temple
and the oracle, and he made sides round about.
The floor that was underneath, was five cubits in breadth,
and the middle floor was six cubits in breadth, and
the third door was seven cubits in breadth. And he put
beams in the house round about on the outside, that
they might not be fastened in the walls of the temple.
And the house, when it was in building, was built of
stones hewed and made ready: so that there was neither
hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house
when it was in building.
The door for the middle side was on the right hand of
the house : and by winding stairs they went up to the
middle room, and from the middle to the third.
So he built the house, and finished it: end he covered
the house with roofs of cedar.
And he built a floor over all the house five cubits
in height, and he covered the house with timber of cedar.
And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying:
This house, which thou buildest, if thou wilt walk in
my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all
my commandments, walking in them, I will fulfil my word
to thee which I spoke to David thy father.
And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel,
and will not forsake my people Israel.
So Solomon built the house and finished it.
And he built the walls of the house on the inside, with
boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the
top of the walls, and to the roots, he covered it with
boards of cedar on the inside: and he covered the floor
of the house with planks of fir.
And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at
the hinder part of the temple, from the floor to the
top: and made the inner house of the oracle to be the
holy of holies.
And the temple itself before the doors of the oracle
was forty cubits long.
And all the house was covered within with cedar, having
the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought
and carvings projecting out: all was covered with boards
of cedar: and no stone could be seen in the wall at
all.
And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in
the inner part, to set there the ark of the covenant
of the Lord.
Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty
cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in height. And
he covered and overlaid it with most pure gold. And
the altar also he covered with cedar.
And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most
pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of
gold.
And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered
with gold: the whole altar of the oracle he covered
also with gold.
And he made in the oracle two cherubims of olive tree,
of ten cubits in height.
One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other
wing of the cherub was five cubits: that is, in all
ten cubits, from the extremity of one wing to the extremity
of the other wing.
The second cherub also was ten cubits: and the measure,
and the work was the same in both the cherubims:
That is to say, one cherub was ten cubits high, and
in like manner the other cherub.
And he set the cherubims in the midst of the inner temple:
and the cherubims stretched forth their wings, and the
wing of the one touched one wall, and the wing of the
other cherub touched the other wall: and the other wings
in the midst of the temple touched one another.
And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
And all the walls of the temple round about he carved
with divers figures and carvings: and he made in them
cherubims and palm trees, and divers representations,
as it were standing out, and coming forth from the wall.
And the floor of the house he also overlaid with gold
within and without.
And in the entrance of the oracle he made little doors
of olive tree, and posts of five corners,
And two doors of olive tree: and he carved upon them
figures of cherubims, and figures of palm trees, and
carvings very much projecting: and he overlaid them
with gold: and he covered both the cherubims and the
palm trees, and the other things with gold.
And he made in the entrance of the temple posts of olive
tree foursquare:
And two doors of fir tree, one of each side : and each
door was double, and so opened with folding leaves.
And he carved cherubims, and palm trees, and carved
work standing very much out: and he overlaid all with
golden plates in square work by rule.
And he built the inner court with three rows of polished
stones, and one row of beams of cedar.
In the fourth year was the house of the Lord founded
in the month Zio:
And in the eleventh year in the month Bul (which is
the eighth month) the house was finished in all the
works thereof, and in all the appurtenances thereof:
and he was seven years in building it. |
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