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Text -- 1 Kings 6:1-12 (NET)
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The Building of the Temple
6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt , in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel , during the month Ziv (the second month ), he began building the Lord’s temple .
6:2 The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet long , 30 feet wide , and 45 feet high .
6:3 The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet long , corresponding to the width of the temple . It was 15 feet wide , extending out from the front of the temple .
6:4 He made framed windows for the temple .
6:5 He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it.
6:6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet wide , the middle floor nine feet wide , and the third floor ten and a half feet wide . He made ledges on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls .
6:7 As the temple was being built , only stones shaped at the quarry were used ; the sound of hammers , pickaxes , or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built .
6:8 The entrance to the bottom level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple ; stairs went up to the middle floor and then on up to the third floor .
6:9 He finished building the temple and covered it with rafters and boards made of cedar .
6:10 He built an extension all around the temple ; it was seven and a half feet high and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams .
6:11 The Lord said to Solomon :
6:12 “As for this temple you are building , if you follow my rules , observe my regulations , and obey all my commandments , I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Solomon |
Temple |
Micah, Book of |
TEMPLE, A1 |
Temple, Solomon's |
GOLD |
Liberality |
Israel |
Church and State |
CEDAR |
CHAMBER |
Hammer |
Oracle |
Zif |
HOLY PLACE |
JUDGES, BOOK OF |
STORIES |
Month |
Time |
EXODUS, THE |
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NET Notes: 1Ki 6:5 Heb “and he built on the wall of the temple an extension all around, the walls of the temple all around, for the main hall and for the holy plac...
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NET Notes: 1Ki 6:7 Heb “finished stone of the quarry,” i.e., stones chiseled and shaped at the time they were taken out of the quarry.
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NET Notes: 1Ki 6:8 The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate הַשְּׁלִש...
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