1In the four hundred and eightieth year after…
2The house which King Solomon built for the…
3The porch in front of the temple of…
4He made windows of fixed lattice work for…
5Against the wall of the house, he built…
6The lowest floor was five cubits wide, and…
7The house, when it was under construction, was…
8The door for the middle side rooms was…
9So he built the house and finished it;…
10He built the floors all along the house,…
11The LORD’s word came to Solomon, saying,
12“Concerning this house which you are building, if…
13I will dwell among the children of Israel,…
14So Solomon built the house and finished it.
15He built the walls of the house within…
16He built twenty cubits of the back part…
17In front of the temple sanctuary was forty…
18There was cedar on the house within, carved…
19He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle…
20Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in…
21So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure…
22He overlaid the whole house with gold, until…
23In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim…
24Five cubits was the length of one wing…
25The other cherub was ten cubits. Both the…
26One cherub was ten cubits high, and so…
27He set the cherubim within the inner house.…
28He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29He carved all the walls of the house…
30He overlaid the floor of the house with…
31For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he…
32So he made two doors of olive wood;…
33He also made the entrance of the temple…
34and two doors of cypress wood. The two…
35He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers;…
36He built the inner court with three courses…
37The foundation of the LORD’s house was laid…
38In the eleventh year, in the month Bul,…
