RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

from the floor to the walls with boards of cedar: he even
built it inside the partition to be the Most-Kadosh-Place.
17 And the Bayit, that is, the Hekal before it, was forty
cubits long.
18 And the cedar of the Bayit within was carved with
ornaments and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no
stone seen.
19 And the Speaking Place he prepared in the Bayit
within, to put there the Ark of the Testimony of vuvh.
20 And the Speaking Place in the front was twenty cubits
in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in
the height: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so
covered the altar which was of cedar.
21 So Shlomo overlaid the Bayit within with pure gold:
and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the
Speaking Place; and he overlaid it with gold.
22 And the whole Bayit he overlaid with gold, until he
had finished all the Bayit: also the whole altar that was by
the Speaking Place he overlaid with gold.
23 And within the Speaking Place he made two cheruvim
859 from olive eytz, 860 each ten cubits high.
24 And five cubits was the one wing of the cheruv, and
five cubits the other wing of the cheruv: from the
uttermost part of the one wing to the uttermost part of the
other were ten cubits.
25 And the other cheruv was ten cubits: both the
cheruvim were of one measure and one size. 861
26 The height of the one cheruv was ten cubits, as was the
other cheruv.
27 And he set the cheruvim inside the inner Bayit: and
they stretched out the wings of the cheruvim, so that the
wing of the one touched one wall, and the wing of the
other cheruv touched the other wall; and their wings
touched one another in the midst in the middle of the
room. 862
28 And he overlaid the cheruvim with gold. 863
29 And he carved all the walls of the Bayit all around
with carved figures of cheruvim and palm eytzim and
open flowers, inside and outside.
30 And the floor of the Bayit he overlaid with gold, inside
and outside.
31 And for the entrance of the Speaking Place he made
doors of olive eytz: 864 the lintel and side posts were a
fifth part of the wall.
32 The two doors also were of olive eytz; and he carved
upon them carvings of cheruvim and palm eytzim and
open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, 865 and spread
gold upon the cheruvim, and upon the palm eytzim.
33 So also he made for the door of the Hekal posts of
olive eytz, 866 a fourth part of the wall.
34 And the two doors were of cypress eytz: the two
leaves of the one door folded, and the two leaves of the
other door were folded. 867
35 And he carved on them cheruvim and palm eytzim and
open flowers: and covered them with gold laid upon the
carved work.
36 And he built the inner court with three rows of cut
stone, and a row of cedar beams.
37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the Bayit of
vuvh laid, in the month Ziv:
38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is
the eighth month, was the Bayit finished in all its details,
and according to all its plans. So he took seven years to
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build it. 868
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And Shlomo was building his own bayit for thirteen
years, and he finished his bayit.
2 He built also the bayit of the forest of Levanon; the
length was a hundred cubits, and the width fifty cubits,
and the height thirty cubits, with four rows of cedar
pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.
3 And it was paneled with cedar above the beams that
were on forty-five pillars, fifteen in a row.
4 And there were windows in three rows, and window
was opposite window in three tiers.
5 And all the doors and doorposts had square frames, and
window was opposite window three times.
6 And he made the porch of pillars; the length was fifty
cubits, and the width thirty cubits: and the porch was in
front of them: and the other pillars and the roof was in
front of them.
7 Then he made a hall for the kesay where he might
judge, even the hall of mishpat: and it was paneled with
cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
8 And his bayit where he lived had another courtyard
within the hall, which was of like work. Shlomo also
made a bayit for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken
as his wife, just like his.
9 All these were of costly stones, according to the
measures of cut stones, cut with saws, inside and outside,
even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the
outside towards the great courtyard.
10 And the foundation was of costly stones, large stones
of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
11 And above were costly stones, cut stones to size, and
cedars.
12 And the great courtyard all around was with three rows
of cut stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner
court of the Bayit of vuvh, and for the porch of the Bayit.
13 And melech Shlomo sent and fetched Chiram out of
Tzor.
14 He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his
abba was a man of Tzor, a worker in brass: and he was
filled with chochmah, and binah, and skilled to work all
works in brass. And he came to melech Shlomo, and did
all his work.
15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high
apiece: 869 and a line of twelve cubits 870 measured the
circumference of each one.
16 And he made two capitals of cast brass, to set upon the
tops of the pillars: the height of the one capital was five
cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits:
17 And a network of carved ornaments and wreaths of
chain work, for the capitals that were on the top of the
pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other
capital.
18 And he made the pillars, and two rows all around
above the one network, to cover the capitals that were at
the top, with pomegranates: and he did also the same for
the other capital.
19 And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars
were of bulging work shaped like lilies in the hall, four
cubits.
20 And the capitals upon the two pillars had
pomegranates also above, by the bulge next to the
network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows