BRAGADAYJAH 997
The House of the Lord was Seven Years in Building.
The House of the Lord was Seven Years in Building.
In building this house unto the Lord, it must be assumed
that Solomon had no drawings, or architectural designs to guide him, but
instead, only the abundant wisdom that God had given him, and no doubt guided
by the superintending Spirit of God. So having built the oracle and overlaid it
with gold, he proceeded on to decorate it with two cherubims of olive trees,
each ten cubits high, with wing spans on either side five cubit long, measured
from the cherubim to the very tip of the wing, so that the total span tip to
tip of both wings was ten cubits; both cherubims being of the same size. And each cherubim was ten cubits high. Then
he placed the cherubims within the inner house, so that when placed side by
side the wings spanned from wall to wall. And each cherubim was overlaid with
gold. And all the walls all around were carved with carved figures of cherubims
and palm trees, and open flowers inside and outside. And the entrance to the
oracle were doors made of olive trees, the lintels and the side posts were a
fifth part of the wall. And the two doors of fir trees, the two leaves of the
one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other folded also. And on the
doors were carved cherubims and palm trees, and open flowers; and all the
carved works upon the doors were overlaid with gold. And Solomon built the
inner court with three rows of hewed stone and a row of cedar beams. In the
fourth year, in the month Zif, was the foundation of the house of the Lord laid;
and in the eleventh year in the Bul, which is the eight month was the house
finished in all its parts; so that the house of the Lord was seven years in
building.
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