Solomon Builds the House of the Lord.
And it came to pass that in the four hundred and eightieth
year after the children of Israel had come out of Egypt, the fourth year of
Solomon’s reign, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that Solomon
began to build the house of the Lord. The house which King Solomon built for
the Lord was sixty cubits in length, and the width was twenty cubit and the
height thirty cubit. And the porch in front of the temple was twenty cubits
long and corresponded to the width of the house, and the width of the porch was
ten cubits. And for the house he made windows of narrow lights. And against the
wall of the house he built chambers around the house and of the oracle round
about. And the lowest chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle one was six
cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits.
And he made narrowed rests roundabout that the beams that the beams
should not be fastened in the walls of the house. And the house was built of
stone made ready before it was brought to the building site. That there was
neither sound of hammer, nor axe, nor any iron tools during the building of the
temple. The door to the middle chamber was in the right side of the house, and
they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle
into the third. So Solomon built the house and finished it, and covered the
house and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar. And then he built
chambers against all the house five cubits high and they rested on the house
with timber of cedar.
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