1In the four hundred and eightieth year after…
2The house that King Solomon built for the…
3The portico at the front of the main…
4He also had narrow windows framed high in…
5Against the walls of the temple and the…
6The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the…
7The temple was constructed using finished stones cut…
8The entrance to the bottom floor was on…
9So Solomon built the temple and finished it,…
10He built chambers all along the temple, each…
11Then the word of the LORD came to…
12“As for this temple you are building, if…
13And I will dwell among the Israelites and…
14So Solomon built the temple and finished it.
15He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling…
16He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the…
17And the main hall in front of this…
18The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved…
19Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the…
20The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty…
21So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple…
22So he overlaid with gold the whole interior…
23In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim,…
24One wing of the first cherub was five…
25The second cherub also measured ten cubits; both…
26and the height of each cherub was ten…
27And he placed the cherubim inside the innermost…
28He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29Then he carved the walls all around the…
30And he overlaid the temple floor with gold…
31For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon…
32The double doors were made of olive wood,…
33In the same way he made four-sided doorposts…
34The two doors were made of cypress wood,…
35He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and…
36Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows…
37The foundation of the house of the LORD…
38In the eleventh year, in the month of…
