1 Kings 6

1 Then it happened that, in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel departed from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, the house of the Lord began to be built.

And in the foure hundreth and foure score yeere (after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt) and in the fourth yere of the reigne of Salomon ouer Israel, in the moneth Zif, (which is the second moneth) he built the house of the Lord.

2 Now the house, which king Solomon was building to the Lord, was sixty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and thirty cubits in height.

And the house which King Salomon built for the Lord, was three score cubites long, and twentie broade, and thirtie cubites hie.

3 And a portico was before the temple, of twenty cubits in length, in accord with the measure of the width of the temple. And it had ten cubits of width before the face of the temple.

And the porch before the Temple of the house was twentie cubites long according to the breadth of the house, and ten cubites broade before the house.

4 And he made oblique windows in the temple.

And in the house he made windowes, broad without, and narrowe within.

5 And upon the wall of the temple, he built panels on all sides, in the walls of the house around the temple and the oracle. And he made side chambers all around.

And by the wall of the house hee made galleries round about, euen by the walles of the house round about the Temple and the oracle, and made chambers round about.

6 The flooring on the bottom level held five cubits in width, and the middle floor was six cubits in width, and the third floor held seven cubits in width. Then he positioned beams on the house all around the outside, in such a way that they would not be fastened to the walls of the temple.

The nethermost gallerie was fiue cubites broade, and the middlemost sixe cubites broade, and the third seuen cubites broade: for he made restes round about without the house, that the beames should not be fastened in the walles of the house.

7 Now the house, while it was being built, was made from cut and finished stones. And so, neither mallet, nor chisel, nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.

And when the house was built, it was built of stone perfite, before it was brought, so that there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any toole of yron heard in the house, while it was in building.

8 The door at the side of the middle section was to the right of the house. And they would ascend along winding stairs to the middle level, and from the middle level to the third level.

The doore of the middle chamber was in the right side of the house, and men went vp with winding stayres into the middlemost, and out of the middlemost into the third.

9 And he built the house, and finished it. And he overlaid the house with boards of cedar.

So he built the house and finished it, and sieled the house being vawted with sieling of cedar trees.

10 And he built a paneling over the entire house, five cubits in height, and he covered the house with cedar wood.

And he built the galleries vpon al the wall of the house of fiue cubites height, and they were ioyned to the house with beames of cedar.

11 And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying:

And the worde of the Lord came to Salomon, saying,

12 “Concerning this house, which you are building: if you will walk in my precepts, and carry out my judgments, and keep all my commandments, advancing by them, I will confirm my word to you, which I spoke to your father David.

Cocerning this house which thou buildest, if thou wilt walke in mine ordinances, and execute my iudgements, and keepe al my commadements, to walke in them, then will I performe vnto thee my promise, which I promised to Dauid thy father.

13 And I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel.”

And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and wil not forsake my people Israel.

14 And so, Solomon built the house, and finished it.

So Salomon built the house and finished it,

15 And he built the walls of the house, on the interior, with panels of cedar, from the floor of the house, to the top of the walls, and even to the ceiling. He covered it with cedar wood on the interior. And he overlaid the floor of the house with panels of spruce.

And built the walles of the house within, with boards of cedar tree from the pauement of the house vnto the walles of the sieling, and within he couered them with wood, and couered the floore of the house with planks of firre.

16 And he built panels of cedar, of twenty cubits, at the back part of the temple, from the floor even to the top. And he made the inner house of the oracle as the Holy of Holies.

And he built twentie cubites in the sides of the house with boards of cedar, from the floore to the walles, and he prepared a place within it for the oracle, euen the most holy place.

17 And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits.

But the house, that is, the Temple before it, was fourtie cubites long.

18 And the entire house was clothed with cedar on the interior, having its turnings and junctures artfully wrought, with carvings projecting outward. Everything was clothed with panels of cedar. And no stone at all was able to be seen in the wall.

And the cedar of the house within was carued with knops, and grauen with floures: all was cedar, so that no stone was seene.

19 Now he made the oracle in the middle of the house, in the inner part, so that he might station the ark of the covenant of the Lord there.

Also he prepared the place of the oracle in the mids of the house within, to set the Arke of the couenant of the Lord there.

20 And the oracle held twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered and clothed it with the purest gold. Then, too, he clothed the altar in cedar.

And the place of the oracle within was twentie cubites long, and twentie cubites broad, and twentie cubites hie, and hee couered it with pure golde, and couered the altar with cedar.

21 Also, the house before the oracle, he covered with the purest gold, and he fastened the plates with nails of gold.

So Salomon couered the house within with pure golde: and he shut the place of the oracle with chaines of gold, and couered it with golde.

22 And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with gold. Moreover, the entire altar of the oracle he overlaid with gold.

And he ouerlayde all the house with gold, vntill all the house was made perfite. also he couered the whole altar, that was before the oracle, with golde.

23 And he made in the oracle two cherubim from wood of the olive tree, of ten cubits in height.

And within the oracle he made two Cherubims of oliue tree, ten cubites hie.

24 One wing of a cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of a cherub was five cubits, that is, having ten cubits from the summit of one wing even to the summit of the other wing.

The wing also of the one Cherub was fiue cubites, and the wing of the other Cherub was fiue cubites: from the vttermost part of one of his wings vnto the vttermost part of the other of his wings, were ten cubites.

25 Likewise, the second cherub was ten cubits. And the measure was equal and the work was one, in the two cherubim,

Also the other Cherub was of ten cubites: both the Cherubims were of one measure and one sise.

26 that is, one cherub had a height of ten cubits, and similarly the second cherub.

For the height of the one Cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other Cherub.

27 And he stationed the cherubim in the middle of the inner temple. And the cherubim extended their wings, and the wing of the one was touching the wall, and the wing of the second cherub was touching the other wall. But the other wings, in the middle of the temple, were touching each another.

And he put the Cherubims within the inner house, and the Cherubims stretched out their wings, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other Cherub touched the other wall: and their other wings touched one another in the middes of the house.

28 He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

And he ouerlaied the Cherubims with golde.

29 And all the walls of the temple all around he engraved with diverse carvings and turnings. And he made in them cherubim, and palm trees, and various images, as if these were projecting out, and going forth from, the wall.

And he carued all the walles of the house round about with grauen figures of Cherubims and of Palmetrees, and grauen flowres within and without.

30 Then, too, the floor of the house he overlaid with gold within and without.

And the floore of the house hee couered with golde within and without.

31 And at the entrance of the oracle, he made little doors, from wood of the olive tree, with posts of five corners.

And in the entring of the oracle he made two doores of oliue tree: and the vpper post and side postes were fiue square.

32 And there were two doors, from wood of the olive tree. And he carved upon them pictures of cherubim, and images of palm trees, and very prominent figures. And he overlaid these with gold. And he covered the cherubim, as well as the palm trees and the other things, with gold.

The two doores also were of oliue tree, and he graued them with grauing of Cherubims and palme trees, and grauen floures, and couered them with golde, and layed thin golde vpon the Cherubims and vpon the palme trees.

33 And he made, at the entrance of the temple, posts from wood of the olive tree, with four corners,

And so made he for the doore of the Temple, postes of oliue tree foure square.

34 and two doors, from wood of the spruce tree, on the other side. And each door was double, and so it opened by folding upon itself.

But the two doores were of firre tree, the two sides of the one doore were round, and the two sides of the other doore were round.

35 And he carved cherubim, and palm trees, and very prominent engravings. And he covered everything with gold plates, worked to be perfectly square.

And he graued Cherubims, and palme trees, and carued floures and couered the carued worke with golde, finely wrought.

36 And he built the inner atrium with three rows of polished stones, and one row of cedar wood.

And hee built the court within with three rowes of hewed stone, and one rowe of beames of cedar.

37 In the fourth year, the house of the Lord was founded, in the month of Ziv.

In the fourth yeere was the foundation of the house of the Lord layed in the moneth of Zif:

38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was perfected in all its works and in all its equipment. And he built it for seven years.

And in the eleuenth yeere in the moneth of Bul, (which is the eight moneth) hee finished the house with all the furniture thereof, and in euery point: so was he seuen yeere in building it.