[1] It happened 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 Ziv, which is the second month,
that he began to build the house of Yahweh. [2] The house which king
Solomon built for Yahweh, the length of it was sixty cubits, and the
breadth of it twenty [cubits], and the height of it thirty cubits. [3] The
porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length of it,
according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits was the breadth of
it before the house. [4] For the house he made windows of fixed
lattice-work. [5] Against the wall of the house he built stories round
about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and
of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about. [6] The nethermost
story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the
third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the
wall] of the house round about, that [the beams] should not have hold in
the walls of the house. [7] The house, when it was in building, was built
of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor ax nor
any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. [8] The door
for the middle side- chambers was in the right side of the house: and they
went up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle
into the third. [9] So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered
the house with beams and planks of cedar. [10] He built the stories against
all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with
timber of cedar. [11] The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying, [12]
Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my
statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk
in them; then will I establish my word with you, which I spoke to David
your father. [13] 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] He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the
floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the
inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.
[16] He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of
cedar from the floor to the walls [of the ceiling]: he built [them] for it
within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place. [17] The house, that
is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long]. [18] There was
cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was
cedar; there was no stone seen. [19] He prepared an oracle in the midst of
the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. [20]
Within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty
cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height of it; and he overlaid
it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar. [21] So Solomon
overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across
before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. [22] The whole house he
overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar
that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold. [23] In the oracle he
made two cherubim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high. [24] Five cubits was
the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub:
from the uttermost part of the one wing to the uttermost part of the other
were ten cubits. [25] The other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim
were of one measure and one form. [26] The height of the one cherub was ten
cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. [27] He set the cherubim within
the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, so
that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other
cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the
midst of the house. [28] He overlaid the cherubim with gold. [29] He carved
all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and
palm-trees and open flowers, inside and outside. [30] The floor of the
house he overlaid with gold, inside and outside. [31] For the entrance of
the oracle he made doors of olive-wood: the lintel [and] door-posts were a
fifth part [of the wall]. [32] So [he made] two doors of olive-wood; and he
carved on them carvings of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, and
overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim, and on the
palm-trees. [33] So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-posts
of olive-wood, out of a fourth part [of the wall]; [34] and two doors of
fir-wood: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves
of the other door were folding. [35] He carved [thereon] cherubim and
palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the
engraved work. [36] He built the inner court with three courses of hewn
stone, and a course of cedar beams. [37] In the fourth year was the
foundation of the house of Yahweh laid, in the month Ziv. [38] In the
eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house
finished throughout all the parts of it, and according to all the fashion
of it. So was he seven years in building it.

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