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    1 Kings 6

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    Two ten-cubit cherubim stand in a twenty-cubit room, their wings touching wall to wall and meeting neatly in the middle—architecture with the air of a celestial measuring exercise.

    A temple built in silencevv. 1–14

    Solomon begins the house of the LORD in the fourth year of his reign, with its dimensions carefully counted and its side rooms arranged in three widening levels. The stones are finished at the quarry, so the temple itself hears no hammer, chisel, or iron tool while rising—a remarkably quiet building site. Then, after the first declaration that Solomon has built and finished the temple, the word of the LORD comes with a condition and a promise: obedience, and the LORD’s dwelling among Israel.

    Gold, flowers, and a precisely fitted pairvv. 15–35

    Inside, cedar covers the walls and cypress the floor, while the rear twenty cubits become the inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. Gold proceeds across the interior, the altar, the floor, the doors, and the cherubim, with gourds, palm trees, and open flowers keeping company with the precious metal. The two cherubim are made alike, each ten cubits high and ten cubits across the wings; placed in the innermost room, they reach both walls and meet at the centre, as though the room had been designed expressly for that embrace.

    Seven years, finished at lastvv. 36–38

    Solomon adds the inner courtyard with dressed stone and cedar beams. The foundation was laid in the fourth year, in Ziv; in Bul, the eighth month, the temple is finished in every detail and according to every specification. The building has therefore been finished once already, then furnished, adorned, and finally finished properly—the first finish having been, one might say, somewhat optimistic.

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    1. 1 Kgs 6:1In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.

    2. 1 Kgs 6:2The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

    3. 1 Kgs 6:3The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple.

    4. 1 Kgs 6:4He also had narrow windows framed high in the temple.

    5. 1 Kgs 6:5Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.

    6. 1 Kgs 6:6The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.

    7. 1 Kgs 6:7The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.

    8. 1 Kgs 6:8The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.

    9. 1 Kgs 6:9So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.

    10. 1 Kgs 6:10He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.

    11. 1 Kgs 6:11Then the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying:

    12. 1 Kgs 6:12“As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.

    13. 1 Kgs 6:13And I will dwell among the Israelites and will not abandon My people Israel.”

    14. 1 Kgs 6:14So Solomon built the temple and finished it.

    15. 1 Kgs 6:15He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.

    16. 1 Kgs 6:16He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

    17. 1 Kgs 6:17And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

    18. 1 Kgs 6:18The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.

    19. 1 Kgs 6:19Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.

    20. 1 Kgs 6:20The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.

    21. 1 Kgs 6:21So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.

    22. 1 Kgs 6:22So he overlaid with gold the whole interior of the temple, until everything was completely finished. He also overlaid with gold the entire altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.

    23. 1 Kgs 6:23In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.

    24. 1 Kgs 6:24One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing was five cubits long as well. So the full wingspan was ten cubits.

    25. 1 Kgs 6:25The second cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same size and shape,

    26. 1 Kgs 6:26and the height of each cherub was ten cubits.

    27. 1 Kgs 6:27And he placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple. Since their wings were spread out, the wing of the first cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the second cherub touched the other wall, and in the middle of the room their wingtips touched.

    28. 1 Kgs 6:28He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

    29. 1 Kgs 6:29Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.

    30. 1 Kgs 6:30And he overlaid the temple floor with gold in both the inner and outer sanctuaries.

    31. 1 Kgs 6:31For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon constructed doors of olive wood with five-sided doorposts.

    32. 1 Kgs 6:32The double doors were made of olive wood, and he carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.

    33. 1 Kgs 6:33In the same way he made four-sided doorposts of olive wood for the sanctuary entrance.

    34. 1 Kgs 6:34The two doors were made of cypress wood, and each had two folding panels.

    35. 1 Kgs 6:35He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.

    36. 1 Kgs 6:36Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.

    37. 1 Kgs 6:37The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, in the month of Ziv.

    38. 1 Kgs 6:38In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.

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    • 7Deuteronomy 27:5–6Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them.
    • 71 Peter 2:5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
    • 13Deuteronomy 31:6Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid or terrified of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.”
    • 121 Chronicles 22:10He is the one who will build a house for My Name. He will be My son, and I will be his Father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’
    • 13Exodus 25:8And they are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.
    • 12 Chronicles 3:1–2Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
    • 4Ezekiel 40:16The gate chambers and their side pillars had beveled windows all around the inside of the gateway. The porticos also had windows all around on the inside. Each side pillar was decorated with palm trees.
    • 51 Kings 6:16He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
    • 91 Kings 6:14So Solomon built the temple and finished it.
    • 91 Kings 6:38In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.
    • 12Colossians 1:23if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
    • 13Leviticus 26:11And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
    • 13Revelation 21:3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.
    • 141 Kings 6:9So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
    • 162 Chronicles 3:8Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.
    • 161 Kings 8:6Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.

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