1 Kings 5-6New King James Version (NKJV)
Solomon Prepares to Build the Temple
5 Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to
Solomon, because he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his
father, for Hiram had always loved David. 2 Then
Solomon sent to Hiram, saying:
3 You know how my father David could
not build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the
wars which were fought against him on every side, until
the Lord put his foes[a] under the soles of his
feet.
4 But now the Lord my God
has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary
nor evil occurrence.
5 And behold, I propose to build a
house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spoke to
my father David, saying, “Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your
place, he shall build the house for My name.”
6 Now therefore, command that they
cut down cedars for me from Lebanon; and my servants will be with your
servants, and I will pay you wages for your servants according to whatever you
say. For you know there is none among us who has skill to cut
timber like the Sidonians.
7 So it was, when Hiram heard the
words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly and said,
Blessed be the Lord this day, for
He has given David a wise son over this great people!
8 Then Hiram sent to Solomon, saying:
I have considered the message which you
sent me, and I will do all you desire concerning the cedar and
cypress logs.
9 My servants shall bring them down
from Lebanon to the sea; I will float them in rafts by sea to the place you
indicate to me, and will have them broken apart there; then you can take them away.
And you shall fulfill my desire by giving food for my household.
10 Then Hiram gave Solomon cedar and
cypress logs according to all his desire. 11 And
Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand kors of wheat as food for
his household, and twenty[b] kors of pressed oil.
Thus Solomon gave to Hiram year by year.
12 So the Lord gave Solomon
wisdom, as He had promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon,
and the two of them made a treaty together.
13 Then King Solomon raised up a
labor force out of all Israel; and the labor force was thirty thousand
men. 14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a
month in shifts: they were one month in Lebanon and two months
at home; Adoniram was in charge of the labor force. 15 Solomon
had seventy thousand who carried burdens, and eighty thousand who
quarried stone in the mountains, 16 besides
three thousand three hundred[c] from the chiefs of
Solomon’s deputies, who supervised the people who labored in the work. 17 And
the king commanded them to quarry large stones, costly stones, and hewn
stones, to lay the foundation of the temple.[d] 18 So
Solomon’s builders, Hiram’s builders, and the Gebalites quarried them; and
they prepared timber and stones to build the temple.
Solomon Builds the Temple
6 And it came to pass in the four hundred and
eightieth[e] year after the
children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of
Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the
second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord. 2 Now
the house which King Solomon built for the Lord, its length was sixty
cubits, its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits. 3 The
vestibule in front of the sanctuary[f] of the house was twenty
cubits long across the width of the house, and the width
of the vestibule[g] extended ten
cubits from the front of the house. 4 And he made
for the house windows with beveled frames.
5 Against the wall of the temple he
built chambers all around, against the walls of the temple,
all around the sanctuary and the inner sanctuary.[h] Thus he made side
chambers all around it. 6 The lowest chamber was five
cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the
third was seven cubits wide; for he made narrow ledges around
the outside of the temple, so that the support beams would not
be fastened into the walls of the temple. 7 And the
temple, when it was being built, was built with stone finished at the quarry,
so that no hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the
temple while it was being built. 8 The doorway for
the middle story[i] was on the
right side of the temple. They went up by stairs to the middle story, and
from the middle to the third.
9 So he built the temple and finished
it, and he paneled the temple with beams and boards of cedar. 10 And
he built side chambers against the entire temple, each five cubits high; they
were attached to the temple with cedar beams.
11 Then the word of
the Lord came to Solomon, saying: 12 “Concerning this
temple which you are building, if you walk in My statutes, execute My
judgments, keep all My commandments, and walk in them, then I will perform My
word with you, which I spoke to your father David. 13 And
I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake My people
Israel.”
14 So Solomon built the temple and
finished it. 15 And he built the inside walls of
the temple with cedar boards; from the floor of the temple to the ceiling he
paneled the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the temple with
planks of cypress. 16 Then he built the
twenty-cubit room at the rear of the temple, from floor to ceiling, with cedar
boards; he built it inside as the inner sanctuary, as the Most
Holy Place. 17 And in front of it the
temple sanctuary was forty cubits long. 18 The
inside of the temple was cedar, carved with ornamental buds and open flowers.
All was cedar; there was no stone to be seen.
19 And he prepared the inner
sanctuary inside the temple, to set the ark of the covenant of
the Lord there. 20 The inner
sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and
twenty cubits high. He overlaid it with pure gold, and overlaid the altar of
cedar. 21 So Solomon overlaid the inside of the
temple with pure gold. He stretched gold chains across the front of the inner
sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold. 22 The whole
temple he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the temple; also he
overlaid with gold the entire altar that was by the inner
sanctuary.
23 Inside the inner sanctuary he made
two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits
high. 24 One wing of the cherub was five
cubits, and the other wing of the cherub five cubits: ten cubits from the tip
of one wing to the tip of the other. 25 And the
other cherub was ten cubits; both cherubim were of
the same size and shape. 26 The height of one
cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other
cherub. 27 Then he set the cherubim inside the
inner room;[j] and they stretched out
the wings of the cherubim so that the wing of the one touched one wall,
and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall. And their wings
touched each other in the middle of the room. 28 Also
he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29 Then he carved all the walls of
the temple all around, both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with
carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. 30 And
the floor of the temple he overlaid with gold, both the inner and outer sanctuaries.
31 For the entrance of the inner
sanctuary he made doors of olive wood; the lintel and doorposts were one-fifth of
the wall. 32 The two doors were of olive
wood; and he carved on them figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers,
and overlaid them with gold; and he spread gold on the
cherubim and on the palm trees. 33 So for the door
of the sanctuary he also made doorposts of olive wood,
one-fourth of the wall. 34 And the two
doors were of cypress wood; two panels comprised one
folding door, and two panels comprised the other folding
door. 35 Then he carved cherubim, palm trees, and
open flowers on them, and overlaid them with
gold applied evenly on the carved work.
36 And he built the inner court with
three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.
37 In the fourth year the foundation
of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of Ziv. 38 And
in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house
was finished in all its details and according to all its plans. So he was seven
years in building it.
2 Chronicles 2-3New King James Version (NKJV)
Solomon Prepares to Build the Temple
2 Then Solomon determined to build a temple for
the name of the Lord, and a royal house for himself. 2 Solomon
selected seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand to quarry stone in
the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.
3 Then Solomon sent to Hiram[a] king of Tyre, saying:
As you have dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars
to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me. 4 Behold,
I am building a temple for the name of the Lord my God, to
dedicate it to Him, to burn before Him sweet incense, for the
continual showbread, for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the
Sabbaths, on the New Moons, and on the set feasts of the Lord our
God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.
5 And the temple which I build will
be great, for our God is greater than all gods. 6 But
who is able to build Him a temple, since heaven and the heaven of heavens
cannot contain Him? Who am I then, that I should build Him a
temple, except to burn sacrifice before Him?
7 Therefore send me at once a man
skillful to work in gold and silver, in bronze and iron, in purple and crimson
and blue, who has skill to engrave with the skillful men who are with me in
Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided. 8 Also
send me cedar and cypress and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your
servants have skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and indeed my servants will
be with your servants, 9 to prepare timber
for me in abundance, for the temple which I am about to build shall be great
and wonderful.
10 And indeed I will give to your
servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, twenty thousand kors of ground wheat,
twenty thousand kors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty
thousand baths of oil.
11 Then Hiram king of Tyre answered
in writing, which he sent to Solomon:
Because the Lord loves His people, He has made you
king over them.
12 Hiram[b] also said:
Blessed be the Lord God of
Israel, who made heaven and earth, for He has given King David a wise son,
endowed with prudence and understanding, who will build a temple for
the Lord and a royal house for himself!
13 And now I have sent a skillful
man, endowed with understanding, Huram[c]my master[d] craftsman 14 (the
son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre),
skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple and
blue, fine linen and crimson, and to make any engraving and to accomplish any
plan which may be given to him, with your skillful men and with the skillful
men of my lord David your father.
15 Now therefore, the wheat, the
barley, the oil, and the wine which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his
servants. 16 And we will cut wood from Lebanon, as
much as you need; we will bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, and you
will carry it up to Jerusalem.
17 Then Solomon numbered all the
aliens who were in the land of Israel, after the census in
which David his father had numbered them; and there were found to be one
hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred. 18 And
he made seventy thousand of them bearers of burdens, eighty thousand
stonecutters in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make
the people work.
Solomon Builds the Temple
3 Now Solomon began to build the house of
the Lord at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord[e] had appeared to his
father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of
Ornan[f] the Jebusite. 2 And
he began to build on the second day of the second month in the
fourth year of his reign.
3 This is the foundation which
Solomon laid for building the house of God: The length was sixty
cubits (by cubits according to the former measure) and the width twenty
cubits. 4 And the vestibule that was in
front of the sanctuary[g] was twenty cubits long
across the width of the house, and the height was one hundred
and[h] twenty. He overlaid
the inside with pure gold. 5 The larger room[i]he paneled with cypress
which he overlaid with fine gold, and he carved palm trees and chainwork on
it. 6 And he decorated the house with precious
stones for beauty, and the gold was gold from Parvaim. 7 He
also overlaid the house—the beams and doorposts, its walls and doors—with gold;
and he carved cherubim on the walls.
8 And he made the Most Holy Place.
Its length was according to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and its
width twenty cubits. He overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine
gold. 9 The weight of the nails was fifty
shekels of gold; and he overlaid the upper area with gold. 10 In
the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim, fashioned by carving, and overlaid
them with gold. 11 The wings of the cherubim were twenty
cubits in overall length: one wing of the one cherub
was five cubits, touching the wall of the room, and the other
wing was five cubits, touching the wing of the other
cherub; 12 one wing of the other
cherub was five cubits, touching the wall of the room, and the
other wing also was five cubits, touching the wing of the
other cherub. 13 The wings of these cherubim
spanned twenty cubits overall. They stood on their feet, and they faced
inward. 14 And he made the veil of blue, purple,
crimson, and fine linen, and wove cherubim into it.
15 Also he made in front of the
temple[j] two pillars
thirty-five[k] cubits high, and the
capital that was on the top of each of them was
five cubits. 16 He made wreaths of chainwork, as in
the inner sanctuary, and put them on top of the pillars; and
he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the wreaths
of chainwork. 17 Then he set up the pillars before
the temple, one on the right hand and the other on the left; he called the name
of the one on the right hand Jachin, and the name of the one on the left Boaz.
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