2 GLT As for the house that the king Solomon built for Yahweh, 60 cubits was its length, and 20 its width, and 30 cubits its height. BSB BSB: The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
3 GLT As for the porch on the face of the temple of the house, 20 cubits was its length, in accordance with the face of the width of the house; ten by the cubit was its width in accordance with the face of the house. BSB BSB: The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple.
4 GLT And he made for the house windows with narrowed frames. BSB BSB: He also had narrow windows framed high in the temple.
5 GLT And he built against the wall of the house a spread out place all around, the walls of the house all around, for the temple and for the inner room. And he made side rooms all around. BSB BSB: Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
6 GLT The spread out place of the lowest level, five by the cubit was its width, and the middle level, six by the cubit was its width, and the third level, seven by the cubit was its width. For he gave ledges for the house all around the outside, so not to hold on to the walls of the house. BSB BSB: The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.
7 GLT As for the house while it was being built, it was built of finished stone of a quarry. And a hammer or the ax, any implement of iron, was not heard in the house while it was being built. BSB BSB: The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.
8 GLT The opening of the middle side room was to the shoulder of the house at the south, and by stairs they went up on the middle level, and from the middle level to the third level. BSB BSB: The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.
9 GLT And he built the house and he finished it. And he covered the house with beams and rows with the cedars. BSB BSB: So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
10 GLT And he built the spread out place against all the house, five cubits was its height, and it held on to the house with the wood of cedar. BSB BSB: He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
11 GLT And the word of Yahweh was to Solomon, saying, BSB BSB: Then the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying:
12 GLT “This house that you are building, if you walk in my statutes and you do my judgments, and you keep all my commandments by walking in them, then I will cause my word to stand with you that I spoke to David your father. BSB BSB: “As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.
13 GLT And I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel and I will not forsake my people Israel.” BSB BSB: And I will dwell among the Israelites and will not abandon My people Israel.”
14 GLT And Solomon built the house and he finished it. BSB BSB: So Solomon built the temple and finished it.
15 GLT And he built the walls of the house on the inside with sides of cedar. From the floor of the house up to the walls of the ceiling, he overlaid wood on the inside, and he overlaid the floor of the house with sides of cypress. BSB BSB: He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.
16 GLT And he built 20 cubits from the rear of the house with sides of cedar from the floor up to the walls. And he built for it on the inside as an inner room, as the holiest holy place. BSB BSB: He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
17 GLT And 40 by the cubit was the house(that is the temple) before the face of it. BSB BSB: And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
18 GLT And cedar was into inside the house, carving of gourds and opened ones of flowers. The whole was cedar, there was no stone seen. BSB BSB: The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.
19 GLT And he set up the inner room in the midst of the house on the inside for giving there the box of the covenant of Yahweh. BSB BSB: Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
20 GLT And before the face of the inner room, it was 20 cubits in length, and 20 cubits in width, and 20 cubits its height. And he overlaid it with pure gold and he overlaid an altar with cedar. BSB BSB: The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
21 GLT And Solomon overlaid the house on the inside with pure gold. And he crossed chains of gold over the face of the inner room, and he overlaid it with gold. BSB BSB: So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.
22 GLT And he overlaid all the house with gold until finishing all the house. And the whole of the altar that was for the inner room he overlaid with gold. BSB BSB: So he overlaid with gold the whole interior of the temple, until everything was completely finished. He also overlaid with gold the entire altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
23 GLT And he made in the inner room two cherubs of wood of oil; ten cubits was its height. BSB BSB: In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.
24 GLT And five cubits was the wing of the one cherub and five cubits was the wing of the second cherub. It was ten cubits from the ends of its wings and as far as the ends of its wings. BSB BSB: One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing was five cubits long as well. So the full wingspan was ten cubits.
25 GLT And ten by the cubit was the second cherub, one size and one shape were for the two cherubs. BSB BSB: The second cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same size and shape,
26 GLT The height of the one cherub was ten by the cubit and so was the second cherub. BSB BSB: and the height of each cherub was ten cubits.
27 GLT And he gave the cherubs in the midst of the inner house. And they spread out the wings of the cherubs and the wing of the one touched against the wall and the wing of the second cherub was touching against the second wall. And their wings were toward the middle of the house, touching wing to wing. BSB BSB: And he placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple. Since their wings were spread out, the wing of the first cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the second cherub touched the other wall, and in the middle of the room their wingtips touched.
28 GLT And he overlaid the cherubs with gold. BSB BSB: He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29 GLT And he carved all the walls of the house round about with engravings of carvings of cherubs and palm trees and opened ones of flowers, from inside and to the outside. BSB BSB: Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.
30 GLT And he overlaid the floor of the house with gold, for inside and for the outside. BSB BSB: And he overlaid the temple floor with gold in both the inner and outer sanctuaries.
31 GLT Also he made the opening of the inner room with doors of wood of oil; the pillar, doorposts, were a fifth part. BSB BSB: For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon constructed doors of olive wood with five-sided doorposts.
32 GLT And the two of the doors were wood of oil, and he carved on them carvings of cherubs and palm trees and opened ones of flowers, and he overlaid them with gold. And he beat out the gold on the cherubs and on the palm trees. BSB BSB: The double doors were made of olive wood, and he carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.
33 GLT And so he made for the opening of the temple doorposts of wood of oil from a fourth part. BSB BSB: In the same way he made four-sided doorposts of olive wood for the sanctuary entrance.
34 GLT And the two of the doors were wood of cypress, the two of the one door leaves were folding and the two of the second door curtains were folding. BSB BSB: The two doors were made of cypress wood, and each had two folding panels.
35 GLT And he carved cherubs and palm trees and opened ones of flowers. And he overlaid with gold made smooth on the engraving. BSB BSB: He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.
36 GLT And he built the inner courtyard with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cut beams of cedar. BSB BSB: Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.
37 GLT In the fourth year the house of Yahweh was founded, in the month of Ziv. BSB BSB: The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, in the month of Ziv.
38 GLT And in the year 11, in the month of Bul(it is the eighth month), the house was finished according to all his words and according to all his requirements. And he built it seven years. BSB BSB: In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.
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