1 Kings 6

Revised Geneva Translation

6 And in the four hundred eightieth year (after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt), in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month Ziv (which is the second month), he built the House of the LORD.

² And the House which King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty wide, and thirty cubits high.

³ And the porch in front of the Temple of the House was twenty cubits long, according to the width of the House, and ten cubits wide in front of the House.

⁴ And he made windows in the House, wide and narrow.

⁵ And he made galleries by the wall of the House, all around, by the walls of the House all around the Temple and the oracle and made chambers all around.

⁶ And the lowest gallery was five cubits wide, and the middle six cubits wide, and the third seven cubits wide; for he made rests all around the outside of the House, so that the beams would not be fastened in the walls of the House.

⁷ And when the House was built, it was built of stone finished before it was brought, so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the House while it was being built.

⁸ The door of the middle chamber was on the right side of the House. And men went up, with winding stairs, into the middle and out of the middle, into the third.

⁹ So he built the House and finished it and ceiled the House, being vaulted with a ceiling of cedar trees.

¹⁰ And he built the galleries upon all the House of five cubits in height. And they were joined to the House with beams of cedar.

¹¹ And the Word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying:

¹² “Concerning this House which you build, if you will walk in My Ordinances and execute My Judgments and keep all My Commandments, to walk in them, then will I perform My promise to you which I promised to David, your father.

¹³ “And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake My people, Israel.”

¹⁴ So Solomon built the House and finished it,

¹⁵ and built the inside walls of the House with boards of cedar, from the pavement of the House to the walls of the ceiling. And he covered them inside with wood and covered the floor of the House with planks of fir.

¹⁶ And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the House with boards of cedar, from the floor to the walls. And he prepared a place within it for the oracle, the Most Holy Place.

¹⁷ But the House, that is, the Temple before it, was forty cubits.

¹⁸ And the cedar inside the House was carved with gourds, and engraved with flowers, all cedar. No stone was seen.

¹⁹ Also, he prepared the place of the oracle inside, in the midst of the House, to set the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD there.

²⁰ And the place of the oracle inside was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and twenty cubits high. And he covered it with pure gold and covered the Altar with cedar.

²¹ So, Solomon covered the House inside with pure gold. And he shut the place of the oracle with chains of gold and covered it with gold.

²² And he overlaid all the House with gold, until all the House was made perfect. Also, he covered the whole Altar that was before the oracle with gold.

²³ And inside the oracle he made two Cherubim of olive, ten cubits high.

²⁴ Also, the wing of one Cherub was five cubits. And the wing of the other Cherub was five cubits. From the outermost part of one of his wings to the outermost part of the other of his wings, was ten cubits.

²⁵ Also, the other Cherub was ten cubits. Both the Cherubim were of the same measure and size.

²⁶ The height of one Cherub was ten cubits and so was the other Cherub.

²⁷ And he put the Cherubim inside the inner House. And the Cherubim stretched out their wings, so that the wing of one touched one wall and the wing of the other Cherub touched the other wall. And their other wings touched one another in the midst of the House.

²⁸ And he overlaid the Cherubim with gold.

²⁹ And he carved all the walls of the House, all around, with engraved figures of Cherubim and of palm trees and engraved flowers, inside and outside.

³⁰ And he covered the floor of the House with gold, inside and outside.

³¹ And in the entrance to the oracle he made two doors of olive. The upper post and side posts were five square.

³² The two doors were also of olive. And he engraved them with engravings of Cherubim and palm trees and engraved flowers and covered them with gold and laid thin gold upon the Cherubim and upon the palm trees.

³³ And so he made foursquare posts of olive for the door of the Temple.

³⁴ But the two doors were of fir. The two sides of one door were round, and the two sides of the other door were round.

³⁵ And he engraved Cherubim and palm trees and carved flowers, and covered the carved work with finely-worked gold.

³⁶ And he built the court inside with three rows of hewn stone, and one row of beams of cedar.

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), he finished the House, with all its furniture, and in every point. So, he was seven years in building it.