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Text -- 1 Kings 6:13-38 (NET)
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6:13 I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel .”
6:14 So Solomon finished building the temple .
6:15 He constructed the walls inside the temple with cedar planks ; he paneled the inside with wood from the floor of the temple to the rafters of the ceiling . He covered the temple floor with boards made from the wood of evergreens .
6:16 He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place . He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters .
6:17 The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long.
6:18 The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom . Everything was cedar ; no stones were visible .
6:19 He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord could be placed there .
6:20 The inner sanctuary was 30 feet long , 30 feet wide , and 30 feet high . He plated it with gold , as well as the cedar altar .
6:21 Solomon plated the inside of the temple with gold . He hung golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary and plated the inner sanctuary with gold .
6:22 He plated the entire inside of the temple with gold , as well as the altar inside the inner sanctuary .
6:23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubs of olive wood ; each stood 15 feet high .
6:24 Each of the first cherub’s wings was seven and a half feet long; its entire wingspan was 15 feet .
6:25 The second cherub also had a wingspan of 15 feet ; it was identical to the first in measurements and shape .
6:26 Each cherub stood 15 feet high .
6:27 He put the cherubs in the inner sanctuary of the temple . Their wings were spread out . One of the first cherub’s wings touched one wall and one of the other cherub’s wings touched the opposite wall . The first cherub’s other wing touched the second cherub’s other wing in the middle of the room .
6:28 He plated the cherubs with gold .
6:29 On all the walls around the temple , inside and out , he carved cherubs , palm trees , and flowers in bloom .
6:30 He plated the floor of the temple with gold , inside and out .
6:31 He made doors of olive wood at the entrance to the inner sanctuary ; the pillar on each doorpost was five-sided .
6:32 On the two doors made of olive wood he carved cherubs , palm trees , and flowers in bloom , and he plated them with gold . He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold .
6:33 In the same way he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall , only with four-sided pillars.
6:34 He also made two doors out of wood from evergreens ; each door had two folding leaves .
6:35 He carved cherubs , palm trees , and flowers in bloom and plated them with gold , leveled out over the carvings .
6:36 He built the inner courtyard with three rows of chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams .
6:37 In the month Ziv of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign the foundation was laid for the Lord’s temple .
6:38 In the eleventh year , in the month Bul (the eighth month ) the temple was completed in accordance with all its specifications and blueprints. It took seven years to build .
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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 |
Gold |
Temple |
Micah, Book of |
Liberality |
Israel |
Church and State |
TEMPLE, A1 |
Temple, Solomon's |
Cherubim |
Carving |
CEDAR |
CHERUBIM (1) |
Olive |
Holy of Holies |
GATE |
Palm Tree |
Door |
Oracle |
Altar |
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NET Notes -> 1Ki 6:14; 1Ki 6:15; 1Ki 6:16; 1Ki 6:16; 1Ki 6:17; 1Ki 6:18; 1Ki 6:20; 1Ki 6:20; 1Ki 6:20; 1Ki 6:21; 1Ki 6:21; 1Ki 6:22; 1Ki 6:23; 1Ki 6:24; 1Ki 6:25; 1Ki 6:26; 1Ki 6:27; 1Ki 6:27; 1Ki 6:29; 1Ki 6:29; 1Ki 6:30; 1Ki 6:31; 1Ki 6:32; 1Ki 6:32; 1Ki 6:32; 1Ki 6:33; 1Ki 6:34; 1Ki 6:34; 1Ki 6:37; 1Ki 6:37; 1Ki 6:38; 1Ki 6:38
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NET Notes: 1Ki 6:18 Heb “Cedar was inside the temple, carvings of gourds (i.e., gourd-shaped ornaments) and opened flowers; the whole was cedar, no stone was seen.&...
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NET Notes: 1Ki 6:22 Heb “all the temple he plated with gold until all the temple was finished; and the whole altar which was in the inner sanctuary he plated with g...
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NET Notes: 1Ki 6:23 Heb “ten cubits” (a cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm).
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NET Notes: 1Ki 6:24 Heb “The first wing of the [one] cherub was five cubits, and the second wing of the cherub was five cubits, ten cubits from the tips of his wing...
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NET Notes: 1Ki 6:25 Heb “and the second cherub was ten cubits, the two cherubs had one measurement and one shape.”
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NET Notes: 1Ki 6:26 Heb “the height of the first cherub was ten cubits; and so was the second cherub.”
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NET Notes: 1Ki 6:30 Inside and out probably refers to the inner and outer rooms within the building.
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NET Notes: 1Ki 6:31 Heb “the pillar, doorposts, a fifth part” (the precise meaning of this description is uncertain).
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NET Notes: 1Ki 6:33 Heb “and so he did at the entrance of the main hall, doorposts of olive wood, from a fourth.”
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NET Notes: 1Ki 6:34 Heb “two of the leaves of the first door were folding, and two of the leaves of the second door were folding.” In the second half of the d...
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