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Chapter 3
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Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at
Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto
David his father, in the place that David had prepared
in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. |
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And he began to build in the second day of the second
month, in the fourth year of his reign. |
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Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed
for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits
after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the
breadth twenty cubits. |
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And the porch that was in the front of the house, the
length of it was according to the breadth of the house,
twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty:
and he overlaid it within with pure gold. |
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And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which
he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees
and chains. |
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And he garnished the house with precious stones for
beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim. |
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He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and
the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold;
and graved cherubim on the walls. |
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And he made the most holy house, the length whereof
was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits,
and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid
it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. |
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And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold.
And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. |
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And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of
image work, and overlaid them with gold. |
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And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long:
one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching
to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise
five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. |
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And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching
to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five
cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub. |
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The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth
twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their
faces were inward. |
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And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson,
and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon. |
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Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty
and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the
top of each of them was five cubits. |
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And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them
on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates,
and put them on the chains. |
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And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one
on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called
the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name
of that on the left Boaz. |
