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Solomon also made narrow recessed windows throughout the Temple.
He made narrow windows high up in the temple walls.
He built a complex of rooms against the outer walls of the Temple, all the way around the sides and rear of the building.
Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms.
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.
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.
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.
After completing the Temple structure, Solomon put in a ceiling made of cedar beams and planks.
So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks.
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.
“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.
“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.
I will live among the Israelites and will never abandon my people Israel.”
And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”
The Temple’s Interior
So Solomon finished building the Temple.
So Solomon built the temple and completed it.
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.
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 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.
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.
Cedar paneling completely covered the stone walls throughout the Temple, and the paneling was decorated with carvings of gourds and open flowers.
The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.
He prepared the inner sanctuary at the far end of the Temple, where the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant would be placed.
He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the Lord there.
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.
So he finished overlaying the entire Temple with gold, including the altar that belonged to the Most Holy Place.
So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, 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.
The two cherubim were identical in shape and size;
The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape.
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.
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 decorated all the walls of the inner sanctuary and the main room with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.
On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers.
He overlaid the floor in both rooms with gold.
He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.
For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were one fifth of the width of the sanctuary.
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.
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.
Then he made four-sided doorposts of wild olive wood for the entrance to the Temple.
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.
There were two folding doors of cypress wood, and each door was hinged to fold back upon itself.
He also made two doors out of juniper wood, each having two leaves that turned in sockets.
These doors were decorated with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers — all overlaid evenly with gold.
He carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers on them and overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.
The walls of the inner courtyard were built so that there was one layer of cedar beams between every three layers of finished stone.
And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.
The foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid in the fourth year, 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.