Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast,

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Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation.

Discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today, it is day 148. We're reading from 1st Kings chapter 6, 2nd Chronicles chapter 9, and we are praying Psalm 4, going all the way back to the beginning of the book of Psalms. As always, the Bible translation that I am reading from is the revised standard version, the second Catholic edition. I am using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a

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you are listening to this Bible today. One thing to keep in mind is the fact that today we are going

in First Kings, we're going to look at king

Solomon building the temple and there's a lot of dimensions a lot of cubits involved in this

and so if you want to have kind of a little more accurate sense of like how to picture this

if you are anywhere near a computer it might be helpful for you to pull up something like

king solomon's temple or dimensions of king solomon's temple they, and it would probably give you some images. People have recreated that would say it probably looked something like this. That could just be helpful because Chapter 6 is very detailed. It's great. It's awesome. But it sometimes is hard to picture because I'm going to be giving you a word picture from the Bible from first

Kings chapter six and if you want to have an actual picture just Google something like king

Solomon's temple dimensions of king Solomon's temple images of king Solomon's temple and it will give

you a dimension and images and picture of king Solomon's temple as I said today is day

148 we're reading first king's six Chronicles 9. We're praying Psalm 4.

The first book of kings chapter 6, Solomon builds the temple.

In the 480th year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord. The house which King

Solomon built for the Lord was 60 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. The vestibule

in front of the nave of the house was 20 cubits long, equal to the width of the house,

and 10 cubits deep in front of the house. And he made for the house windows 20 cubits long equal to the width of the house and 10 cubits deep in front of the

house. And he made for the house windows with recessed frames. He also built a structure against

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