1It was in the eightieth year and the four hundredth year after the sons of Israel came out from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv (that is the second month), when Solomon began to reign over Israel, that he built the house for the LORD.2The house that Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits in length, twenty cubits in width, and thirty cubits in height.3The hall in front of the temple of the house was twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.4He made for the house framed, shuttered windows.5He built upon the wall of the house floor upon floor around, the walls of the house around, for the temple and for the sanctuary, and he made sides around.6The lower story was five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide, and the third seven cubits wide, for he made offsets for the house all around on the outside, so that they would not be fastened into the walls of the house.7The house, when it was being built, was built of complete quarry stone, so that hammer and axe and every iron tool were not heard in the house while it was being built.8The entrance of the middle story was on the right side of the house, and stairs went up to the middle story and from the middle to the third.9So he built the house and finished it, and he covered the house with beams and rows of cedar.10He built the story upon the whole house, five cubits its height, and he covered the house with cedar beams.11Then the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,12This house that you are building: if you walk in my statutes and do my ordinances and keep all my commandments by walking in them, then I will establish my word with you that I spoke to David your father.13I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel.14So Solomon built the house and finished it.15He built the walls of the house on the inside with cedar boards from the floor of the house to the ceiling; he covered the inside with wood, and he covered the floor of the house with cypress boards.16He built twenty cubits from the rear of the house with cedar boards from the floor to the walls, and he built it within the house as the inner sanctuary, the most holy place.17Forty cubits was the house; it was the temple before it.18Cedar was toward the house within, carving of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, no stone was visible.19He prepared the inner sanctuary in the midst of the house to place there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.20The space in front of the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length and twenty cubits in width and twenty cubits in height, and he overlaid it with pure gold, and he overlaid the altar with cedar.21Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold, and he drew chains of gold across the front of the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.22He overlaid all the house with gold until he finished all the house, and all the altar that belonged to the sanctuary he overlaid with gold.23In the sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, ten cubits its height.24Five cubits was the wing of the first cherub, and five cubits the wing of the second cherub; ten cubits from the ends of its wings to the ends of its wings.25Ten cubits was the second cherub; one measure and one shape for the two cherubim.26The height of the first cherub was ten cubits, and so the second cherub.27He placed the cherubim in the midst of the inner house, and they spread the wings of the cherubim so that the wing of the one touched the wall and the wing of the second cherub touched the second wall, and their wings touched wing to wing in the midst of the house.28He overlaid the cherubim with gold.29All the walls of the house around he carved with engravings of cherubim and palms and open flowers, from within and to the outer.30He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, within and without.31For the entrance of the sanctuary he made doors of olive wood; the doorposts were a fifth part.32Two doors of olive wood, and he carved upon them carvings of cherubim and palms and open flowers, and he overlaid gold, and he brought down gold upon the cherubim and upon the palms.33So he did for the entrance of the temple: doorposts of olive wood from the fourth.34Two doors of cypress: the two leaves of the one door turned, and the two leaves of the second door turned.35He carved cherubim and palms and open flowers, and he overlaid smoothed gold upon the engraved.36He built the inner court with three courses of dressed stone and a course of cedar beams.37In the fourth year, in the month of Ziv, the house of the LORD was founded.38In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul (that is the eighth month), the house was finished according to all its words and according to all its ordinances; he built it in seven years.