CHAPTER 5
1 Kings 5:1
1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard
that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was
ever a lover of David.
1 Kings 5:2
2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
1 Kings 5:3
3 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the
name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side,
until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings 5:4
4 But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is
neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
1 Kings 5:5
5 And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God,
as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set
upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.
1 Kings 5:6
6 Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon;
and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire
for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest
that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the
Sidonians.
1 Kings 5:7
7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he
rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath given
unto David a wise son over this great people.
1 Kings 5:8
8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou
sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar,
and concerning timber of fir.
1 Kings 5:9
9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will
convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and
will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and
thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
1 Kings 5:10
10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his
desire.
1 Kings 5:11
11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his
household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram
year by year.
1 Kings 5:12
12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace
between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.
1 Kings 5:13
13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty
thousand men.
1 Kings 5:14
14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month
they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the
levy.
1 Kings 5:15
15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and
fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
1 Kings 5:16
16 Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three
thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the
work.
1 Kings 5:17
17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and
hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
1 Kings 5:18
18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the
stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
CHAPTER 6
1 Kings 6:1
1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the
children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of
Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second
month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
1 Kings 6:2
2 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof
was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height
thereof thirty cubits.
1 Kings 6:3
3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length
thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the
breadth thereof before the house.
1 Kings 6:4
4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
1 Kings 6:5
5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against
the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: an
d he made chambers round about:
1 Kings 6:6
6 The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six
cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the
wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams
should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
1 Kings 6:7
7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready
before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor
any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
1 Kings 6:8
8 The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and
they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the
middle into the third.
1 Kings 6:9
9 So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams
and boards of cedar.
1 Kings 6:10
10 And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and
they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
1 Kings 6:11
11 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
1 Kings 6:12
12 Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my
statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in
them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy
father:
1 Kings 6:13
13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my
people Israel.
1 Kings 6:14
14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
1 Kings 6:15
15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the
floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the
inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of
fir.
1 Kings 6:16
16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and
the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for
the oracle, even for the most holy place.
1 Kings 6:17
17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
1 Kings 6:18
18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers:
all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
1 Kings 6:19
19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of
the covenant of the LORD.
1 Kings 6:20
20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty
cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid
it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.
1 Kings 6:21
21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a
partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with
gold.
1 Kings 6:22
22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the
house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.
1 Kings 6:23
23 And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten
cubits high.
1 Kings 6:24
24 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other
wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the
uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
1 Kings 6:25
25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one
measure and one size.
1 Kings 6:26
26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other
cherub.
1 Kings 6:27
27 And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth
the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one
wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and
their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
1 Kings 6:28
28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
1 Kings 6:29
29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures
of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
1 Kings 6:30
30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
1 Kings 6:31
31 And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the
lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
1 Kings 6:32
32 The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings
of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold,
and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
1 Kings 6:33
33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth
part of the wall.
1 Kings 6:34
34 And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were
folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
1 Kings 6:35
35 And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and
covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
1 Kings 6:36
36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of
cedar beams.
1 Kings 6:37
37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in
the month Zif:
1 Kings 6:38
38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month,
was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to
all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
CHAPTER 7
1 Kings 7:1
1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all
his house.
1 Kings 7:2
2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was
an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height
thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar
beams upon the pillars.
1 Kings 7:3
3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five
pillars, fifteen in a row.
1 Kings 7:4
4 And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three
ranks.
1 Kings 7:5
5 And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was
against light in three ranks.
1 Kings 7:6
6 And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and
the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the
other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
1 Kings 7:7
7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch
of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the
other.
1 Kings 7:8
8 And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was
of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he
had taken to wife, like unto this porch.
1 Kings 7:9
9 All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed
stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto
the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
1 Kings 7:10
10 And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten
cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
1 Kings 7:11
11 And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and
cedars.
1 Kings 7:12
12 And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and
a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD,
and for the porch of the house.
1 Kings 7:13
13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
1 Kings 7:14
14 He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man
of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and
understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to
king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
1 Kings 7:15
15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a
line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
1 Kings 7:16
16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the
pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of
the other chapiter was five cubits:
1 Kings 7:17
17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters
which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and
seven for the other chapiter.
1 Kings 7:18
18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network,
to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did
he for the other chapiter.
1 Kings 7:19
19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work
in the porch, four cubits.
1 Kings 7:20
20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over
against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two
hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.
1 Kings 7:21
21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the
right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left
pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
1 Kings 7:22
22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the
pillars finished.
1 Kings 7:23
23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it
was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty
cubits did compass it round about.
1 Kings 7:24
24 And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten
in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows,
when it was cast.
1 Kings 7:25
25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three
looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three
looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all
their hinder parts were inward.
1 Kings 7:26
26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like
the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
1 Kings 7:27
27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base,
and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
1 Kings 7:28
28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the
borders were between the ledges:
1 Kings 7:29
29 And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and
cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions
and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
1 Kings 7:30
30 And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four
corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten,
at the side of every addition.
1 Kings 7:31
31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the
mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and
also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare,
not round.
1 Kings 7:32
32 And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels
were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a
cubit.
1 Kings 7:33
33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their
axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all
molten.
1 Kings 7:34
34 And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the
undersetters were of the very base itself.
1 Kings 7:35
35 And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit
high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof
were of the same.
1 Kings 7:36
36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he
graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of
every one, and additions round about.
1 Kings 7:37
37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one
measure, and one size.
1 Kings 7:38
38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and
every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one
laver.
1 Kings 7:39
39 And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the
left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house
eastward over against the south.
1 Kings 7:40
40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made
an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the
LORD:
1 Kings 7:41
41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top
of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the
chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;
1 Kings 7:42
42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of
pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that
were upon the pillars;
1 Kings 7:43
43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
1 Kings 7:44
44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
1 Kings 7:45
45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels,
which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright
brass.
1 Kings 7:46
46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between
Succoth and Zarthan.
1 Kings 7:47
47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding
many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
1 Kings 7:48
48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the
LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,
1 Kings 7:49
49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on
the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs
of gold,
1 Kings 7:50
50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the
censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the
inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to
wit, of the temple.
1 Kings 7:51
51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the
LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had
dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put
among the treasures of the house of the LORD.
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