And it came to pass in the fourhundred and eightiethyearafter the children of Israelwerecome out of the land of Egypt, in the fourthyear of Solomon’sreignoverIsrael, in the month Zif, which is the secondmonth, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
And the housewhichkingSolomonbuilt for the LORD, the lengththereof was threescorecubits, and the breadththereoftwentycubits, and the heightthereofthirtycubits.
And the porchbefore the temple of the house, twentycubits was the lengththereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadththereofbefore the house.
And against the wall of the house he builtchambersroundabout, against the walls of the houseroundabout, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he madechambersroundabout:
The nethermostchamber was fivecubitsbroad, and the middle was six cubitsbroad, and the third was sevencubitsbroad: for without in the wall of the house he madenarrowedrestsroundabout, that the beamsshould not be fastened in the walls of the house.
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stonemadereadybefore it was broughtthither: so thatthere was neitherhammer nor ax nor any tool of ironheard in the house, while it was in building.
The door for the middlechamber was in the rightside of the house: and theywent up withwindingstairsinto the middlechamber, and out of the middleinto the third.
Concerningthishousewhichthou art in building, if thouwiltwalk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; thenwill I perform my wordwiththee, which I spakeuntoDavid thy father:
And he built the walls of the housewithinwithboards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he coveredthem on the insidewithwood, and covered the floor of the housewithplanks of fir.
And he builttwentycubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the wallswithboards of cedar: he evenbuiltthem for it within, even for the oracle, even for the mostholyplace.
And the oracle in the forepart was twentycubits in length, and twentycubits in breadth, and twentycubits in the heightthereof: and he overlaid it withpuregold; and so covered the altarwhich was of cedar.
And fivecubits was the one wing of the cherub, and fivecubits the otherwing of the cherub: from the uttermostpart of the one wingunto the uttermostpart of the otherwere ten cubits.
And he set the cherubimswithin the innerhouse: and theystretchedforth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the othercherubtouched the otherwall; and theirwingstouched one another in the midst of the house.
The two doorsalsowere of olivetree; and he carveduponthemcarvings of cherubims and palmtrees and openflowers, and overlaidthemwithgold, and spreadgoldupon the cherubims, and upon the palmtrees.
And in the eleventhyear, in the month Bul, which is the eighthmonth, was the housefinishedthroughout all the partsthereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he sevenyears in building it.