1 Kings chapter 6 Solomon builds the temple.

In the 480th year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt,

in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Zeve, which is the second month,

he began to build the house of the Lord. The house that King

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

in the 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 with recessed frames.

He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the

house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary.

Then he made side chambers all around.

The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad.

For around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.

When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was

heard in the house while it was being built. The entrance for the lowest story was on the south

side of the house and one went up by the stairs to the middle story and from the middle story to the

third. So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the

house of beams and planks of cedar. He built the structure against the whole house, five

cupids high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar. Now the word of the Lord

came to Solomon, concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules

and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which

I spoke to David your father, and I will dwell among the children of Israel and will not

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