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 it was in eighty year and four hundred year of [the] coming out of [the] people of Israel from [the] land of Egypt in the year fourth in [the] month of Ziv that [was] the month second of [the] reigning of Solomon over Israel and he built the house for Yahweh.

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 he built the king Solomon for Yahweh [was] sixty cubit[s] length its and [was] twenty breadth its and [was] thirty cubit[s] height its.

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 on [the] face of [the] temple of the house [was] twenty cubit[s] length its on [the] face of [the] breadth of the house [was] ten by the cubit breadth its on [the] face of the house.

4 And he made oblique windows in the temple.

And he made for the house windows of frames shut.

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 he built on [the] wall of the house (an extension *Q(K)*) all around [the] walls of the house around the temple and the innermost room and he made side-chambers all around.

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 extension *Q(K)*) lower [was] five by the cubit breadth its and the middle [extension] [was] six by the cubit breadth its and third [extension] [was] seven by the cubit breadth its for ledges he made for the house around [the] outside towards to not to have hold in [the] walls 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 the house when was built it stone perfect quarry it was built and hammers and axe any article of iron not it was heard in the house when was built it.

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] entrance of The side-chamber middle [was] to [the] side of the house south and by stairs people went up to the middle and from the middle to the thirty.

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

And he built the house and he finished it and he covered the house beams and planks with cedar.

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 extension *Q(K)*) on all the house [was] five cubits height its and he covered the house with wood of cedar.

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

And it came [the] word of Yahweh to Solomon 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.

The house this which you [are] building if you will walk in statutes my and judgments my you will observe and you will keep all commandments my to walk in them and I will establish word my with you which I spoke to David father your.

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 in among [the] people of Israel and not I will abandon people my Israel.

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

And he built Solomon the house and he 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 he built [the] walls of the house from inside with boards of cedar from [the] floor of the house to [the] walls of the ceiling he overlaid wood from inside and he overlaid [the] floor of the house with boards of cypresses.

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 twenty cubit[s] (from [the] innermost parts of *Q(k)*) the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls and he built for it from inside to an innermost room to [the] holy place of the holy places.

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

And forty by the cubit it was the house that [is] the temple before me.

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 cedar [was] to the house within carving of gourds and spread out [things] of flowers everything [was] cedar not stone [was] visible.

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.

And an innermost room in [the] middle of the house from within he prepared to put there [the] ark of [the] covenant of Yahweh.

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 before the innermost room [was] twenty cubit[s] length and [was] twenty cubit[s] breadth and [was] twenty cubit[s] height its and he overlaid it gold gold plate and he overlaid an altar cedar.

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

And he overlaid Solomon the house from within gold gold plate and he made pass (with chains of *Q(K)*) gold before the innermost room and he overlaid it gold.

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 all the house he overlaid gold until was finished all the house and all the altar which [belonged] to the innermost room he overlaid gold.

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

And he made in the innermost room two cherubim wood of olive [was] ten cubits height its.

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.

And [was] five cubits [the] wing of the cherub one and [was] five cubits [the] wing of the cherub second [was] ten cubits from [the] ends of wings its and to [the] ends of wings its.

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

And [was] ten by the cubit the cherub second a measurement one and a shape one [belonged] to [the] two the cherubim.

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

[the] height of The cherub one [was] ten by the cubit and thus the cherub second.

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 cherubim in [the] middle of - the house inner and they spread out [the] wings of the cherubim and it touched [the] wing of the one [cherub] the wall and [the] wing of the cherub second [was] touching the wall second and wings their to [the] middle of the house [were] touching wing to wing.

28 He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

And he overlaid the cherubim gold.

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 all [the] walls of the house round about - he carved engravings of carvings of cherubim and palm trees and spread out [things] of flowers from to faces and to the outer.

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

And [the] floor of the house he overlaid gold to within and to the outer.

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

And [the] entrance of the innermost room he made doors of wood of olive the pillar doorposts of fifth.

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.

And two doors of wood of olive and he carved on them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and spread out [things] of flowers and he overlaid [them] gold and he hammered out on the cherubim and on the palm trees the gold.

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

And thus he made for [the] entrance of the temple doorposts of wood of olive from with a fourth.

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.

And two doors of wood of cypresses two sides the door one [were] revolving and two curtains the door second [were] revolving.

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 carved cherubim and palm trees and spread out [things] of flowers and he overlaid gold made smooth on the carved [work].

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

And he built the court inner three rows of hewn [stone] and a row of beams of cedar.

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

In the year fourth it was founded [the] house of Yahweh in [the] month of Ziv.

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 year one [plus] ten in [the] month of Bul that [was] the month eighth it was complete the house to all parts its and to all (plans its *Q(K)*) and he built it seven years.