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Now the house which King Solomon built for the Lord, its length was sixty cubits, its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits.
And he made for the house windows with beveled frames.
Solomon also made narrow recessed windows throughout the Temple.
He built a complex of rooms against the outer walls of the Temple, all the way around the sides and rear of the building.
The complex was three stories high, the bottom floor being 7 1/2 feet wide, the second floor 9 feet wide, and the top floor 10 1/2 feet wide.e The rooms were connected to the walls of the Temple by beams resting on ledges built out from the wall. So the beams were not inserted into the walls themselves.
And the temple, when it was being built, was built with stone finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.
The stones used in the construction of the Temple were finished at the quarry, so there was no sound of hammer, ax, or any other iron tool at the building site.
After completing the Temple structure, Solomon put in a ceiling made of cedar beams and planks.
And he built side chambers against the entire temple, each five cubits high; they were attached to the temple with cedar beams.
Then the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying:
Then the LORD gave this message to Solomon:
“Concerning this Temple you are building, if you keep all my decrees and regulations and obey all my commands, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father, David.
And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel.”
I will live among the Israelites and will never abandon my people Israel.”
So Solomon built the temple and finished it.
The Temple’s Interior
So Solomon finished building the Temple.
And he built the inside walls of the temple with cedar boards; from the floor of the temple to the ceiling he paneled the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the temple with planks of cypress.
The entire inside, from floor to ceiling, was paneled with wood. He paneled the walls and ceilings with cedar, and he used planks of cypress for the floors.
Then he built the twenty-cubit room at the rear of the temple, from floor to ceiling, with cedar boards; he built it inside as the inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.
He partitioned off an inner sanctuary — the Most Holy Place — at the far end of the Temple. It was 30 feet deep and was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.
And in front of it the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long.
The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with ornamental buds and open flowers. All was cedar; there was no stone to be seen.
Cedar paneling completely covered the stone walls throughout the Temple, and the paneling was decorated with carvings of gourds and open flowers.
He prepared the inner sanctuary at the far end of the Temple, where the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant would be placed.
The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid it with pure gold, and overlaid the altar of cedar.
So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold. He stretched gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.
The whole temple he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the temple; also he overlaid with gold the entire altar that was by the inner sanctuary.
So he finished overlaying the entire Temple with gold, including the altar that belonged to the Most Holy Place.
Inside the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the cherub five cubits: ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.
And the other cherub was ten cubits; both cherubim were of the same size and shape.
The two cherubim were identical in shape and size;
He placed them side by side in the inner sanctuary of the Temple. Their outspread wings reached from wall to wall, while their inner wings touched at the center of the room.
Then he carved all the walls of the temple all around, both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.
He decorated all the walls of the inner sanctuary and the main room with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.
And the floor of the temple he overlaid with gold, both the inner and outer sanctuaries.
He overlaid the floor in both rooms with gold.
The two doors were of olive wood; and he carved on them figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.
These double doors were decorated with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. The doors, including the decorations of cherubim and palm trees, were overlaid with gold.
Then he made four-sided doorposts of wild olive wood for the entrance to the Temple.
And the two doors were of cypress wood; two panels comprised one folding door, and two panels comprised the other folding door.
There were two folding doors of cypress wood, and each door was hinged to fold back upon itself.
Then he carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers on them, and overlaid them with gold applied evenly on the carved work.
These doors were decorated with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers — all overlaid evenly with gold.
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.
The walls of the inner courtyard were built so that there was one layer of cedar beams between every three layers of finished stone.