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Solomon Builds the Temple
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.
The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.
He made narrow windows high up in the temple walls.
Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms.
In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built.
When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.
So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks.
So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.
And he built the side rooms all along the temple. The height of each was five cubits, and they were attached to the temple by beams of cedar.
He built the structure against the whole house, five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.
“As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, observe my laws and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David your father.
“Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”
And I will dwell among the children of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel.”
He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper.
He lined the walls of the house on the inside 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 cypress.
He partitioned off 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.
He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.
The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.
The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.
The cedar within the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen.
He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the Lord there.
The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
Solomon covered 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.
And Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold, and he drew chains of gold across, in front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.
So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
And he overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. Also the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.
For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.
One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits — ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip.
Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.
The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape.
The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form.
The height of each cherub was ten cubits.
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.
He placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple, with their wings spread out. The wing of one cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the other touched the other wall, and their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.
He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house. And the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house.
On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers.
Around all the walls of the house he carved engraved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.
He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.
The floor of the house he overlaid with gold in the inner and outer rooms.
For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were one fifth of the width of the sanctuary.
And on the two olive-wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.
He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. He overlaid them with gold and spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.
In the same way, for the entrance to the main hall he made doorframes out of olive wood that were one fourth of the width of the hall.
So also he made for the entrance to the nave doorposts of olivewood, in the form of a square,
He also made two doors out of juniper wood, each having two leaves that turned in sockets.
and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
He carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers on them and overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.
On them he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work.
And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.
He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and one course of cedar beams.
The foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv.
In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of Ziv.
In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in all its details according to its specifications. He had spent seven years building it.
And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.