1 Kings 6

¹ And it comes to pass, in the four hundred and eightieth year of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year - in the month of Zif, it [is] the second month - of the reigning of Solomon over Israel, that he builds the house for Yahweh. ² As to the house that king Solomon has built for Yahweh, sixty cubits [is] its length, and twenty its breadth, and thirty cubits its height. ³ As to the porch on the front of the temple of the house, twenty cubits [is] its length on the front of the breadth of the house; ten by the cubit [is] its breadth on the front of the house; ⁴ and he makes for the house windows of narrow lights. ⁵ And he builds against the wall of the house a couch round about, [even] the walls of the house round about, of the temple and of the oracle, and makes sides round about. ⁶ The low couch, five by the cubit [is] its breadth; and the middle, six by the cubit [is] its breadth; and the third, seven by the cubit [is] its breadth, for withdrawings he has put to the house round about, without - not to lay hold on the walls of the house. ⁷ And the house, in its being built, of perfect stone brought [thither] has been built, and hammer, and the axe - any instrument of iron - was not heard in the house, in its being built. ⁸ The opening of the middle side [is] at the right shoulder of the house, and with windings they go up on the middle one, and from the middle one unto the third. ⁹ And he builds the house, and completes it, and covers the house [with] beams and rows of cedars. ¹⁰ And he builds the couch against all the house, five cubits [is] its height, and it takes hold of the house by cedar-wood. ¹¹ And the word of Yahweh is unto Solomon, saying, ¹² "This house that you are building - if you do walk in My statutes, and My judgments do do, yea, have done all My commands, to walk in them, then I have established My word with you, which I spoke unto David your father, ¹³ and have tabernacled in the midst of the sons of Israel, and do not forsake My people Israel." ¹⁴ And Solomon builds the house and completes it; ¹⁵ and he builds the walls of the house within with beams of cedar, from the floor of the house unto the walls of the ceiling; he has overlaid with wood the inside, and covers the floor of the house with ribs of fir. ¹⁶ And he builds the twenty cubits on the sides of the house with ribs of cedar, from the floor unto the walls; and he builds for it within, for the oracle, for the holy of holies. ¹⁷ And forty by the cubit was the house, it [is] the temple before [it]. ¹⁸ And the cedar for the house within [is] carvings of knobs and openings of flowers; the whole [is] cedar, there is not a stone seen. ¹⁹ And the oracle in the midst of the house within he has prepared, to put there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. ²⁰ And before the oracle [is] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits [is] its height; and he overlays it with gold refined, and overlays the altar with cedar. ²¹ And Solomon overlays the house within with gold refined, and causes [it] to pass over in chains of gold before the oracle, and overlays it with gold. ²² And the whole of the house he has overlaid with gold, till the completion of all the house; and the whole of the altar that the oracle has, he has overlaid with gold. ²³ And he makes within the oracle two cherubs, of the oil-tree, ten cubits [is] their height; ²⁴ and five cubits [is] the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the second wing of the cherub, ten cubits from the ends of its wings even unto the ends of its wings; ²⁵ and ten by the cubit [is] the second cherub, one measure and one form [are] to the two cherubs, ²⁶ the height of the one cherub [is] ten by the cubit, and so [is] the second cherub; ²⁷ and he sets the cherubs in the midst of the inner house, and they spread out the wings of the cherubs, and a wing of the one comes against the wall, and a wing of the second cherub is coming against the second wall, and their wings [are] unto the midst of the house, coming wing against wing; ²⁸ and he overlays the cherubs with gold, ²⁹ and all the walls of the house round about he has carved with openings of carvings, cherubs, and palm trees, and openings of flowers, within and without. ³⁰ And the floor of the house he has overlaid with gold, within and without; ³¹ as to the opening of the oracle, he made doors of the oil-tree; the lintel, side-posts, a fifth. ³² And the two doors [are] of the oil-tree, and he has carved upon them carvings of cherubs, and palm-trees, and openings of flowers, and overlaid with gold, and he causes the gold to go down on the cherubs and on the palm-trees. ³³ And so he has made for the opening of the temple, side-posts of the oil-tree, from the fourth. ³⁴ And the two doors [are] of fir-tree, the two sides of the one door are revolving, and the two hangings of the second door are revolving. ³⁵ And he has carved cherubs, and palms, and openings of flowers, and overlaid with straightened gold the graved work. ³⁶ And he builds the inner court, three rows of hewn work, and a row of beams of cedar. ³⁷ In the fourth year has the house of Yahweh been founded, in the month Zif, ³⁸ and in the eleventh year, in the month Bul - [that is] the eighth month - has the house been finished in all its matters, and in all its ordinances, and he builds it seven years.