1It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.

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2 Chronicles 3:1, 2 Chronicles 3:2, 2 Chronicles 3:1, 2 Chronicles 3:2, Acts 7:47

2The house which king Solomon built for the Lord, its length was sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty, and its height thirty cubits.

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Ezekiel 40:1, Ezekiel 40:41, Ezekiel 41:1, Ezekiel 41:15, Ezekiel 40:1

3The porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was its length, according to the breadth of the house. Ten cubits was its breadth before the house.

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John 10:23, 2 Chronicles 3:3, 2 Chronicles 3:4, Acts 3:10, Acts 3:11

4For the house he made windows of fixed lattice work.

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Ezekiel 40:16, Ezekiel 40:16, Ezekiel 41:26, Ezekiel 41:16, Ezekiel 41:26

5Against the wall of the house he built stories all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side rooms all around.

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1 Kings 6:16, 1 Kings 6:16, Psalms 28:2, 1 Kings 6:31, 2 Chronicles 5:9

6The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the house.

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7The house, when it was in building, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

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Deuteronomy 27:5, Deuteronomy 27:6, Deuteronomy 27:5, Deuteronomy 27:6, 1 Peter 2:5

8The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle story, and out of the middle into the third.

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Ezekiel 41:6, Ezekiel 41:7, Ezekiel 41:6, Ezekiel 41:7

9So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

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1 Kings 6:14, 1 Kings 6:38, 1 Kings 6:14, 1 Kings 6:38

10He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

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11The word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

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12"Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

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1 Chronicles 22:10, 1 Chronicles 22:10, Colossians 1:23, Colossians 1:23, Psalms 132:12

13I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel."

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Deuteronomy 31:6, Deuteronomy 31:6, Exodus 25:8, Exodus 25:8, Hebrews 13:5

14So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

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1 Kings 6:38, 1 Kings 6:9, 1 Kings 6:38, 1 Kings 6:9, Acts 7:47

15He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.

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1 Kings 7:7, 1 Kings 7:7

16He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling: he built them for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.

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1 Kings 8:6, 2 Chronicles 3:8, 1 Kings 8:6, 2 Chronicles 3:8, Leviticus 16:2

17In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits.

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18There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

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1 Kings 7:24, 1 Kings 7:24

19He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

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Exodus 40:20, Exodus 40:21, 1 Kings 6:16, 1 Kings 6:5, 2 Chronicles 5:7

20Within the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.

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1 Kings 6:2, 1 Kings 6:3, 1 Kings 6:22, 1 Kings 7:48, Exodus 30:1

21So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.

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Exodus 26:32, Exodus 26:33, Exodus 36:34, Exodus 26:29, 1 Kings 6:5

22The whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold.

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Exodus 30:1, Exodus 30:3, Exodus 30:1, Exodus 30:3, 1 Kings 6:20

23In the oracle he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

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Exodus 37:7, Exodus 37:9, Exodus 37:7, Exodus 37:9, Exodus 25:18

24Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing to the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

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25The other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.

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26The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

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27He set the cherubim within the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.

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Exodus 37:9, Exodus 25:20, Exodus 37:9, Exodus 25:20, 2 Chronicles 5:8

28He overlaid the cherubim with gold.

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29He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.

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1 Kings 6:32, 1 Kings 6:32, Exodus 36:8, Revelation 5:11, Revelation 5:14

30The floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and outside.

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Revelation 21:18, Revelation 21:21, Isaiah 60:17, Isaiah 54:11, Isaiah 54:12

31For the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood: the lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall.

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Hebrews 10:19, Hebrews 10:20, Hebrews 10:19, Hebrews 10:20, John 14:6

32So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim, and on the palm trees.

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1 Kings 6:18, 1 Kings 6:29, 1 Kings 6:18, 1 Kings 6:29

33So also made he for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part of the wall;

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34and two doors of fir wood: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

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Ezekiel 41:23, Ezekiel 41:25, Ezekiel 41:23, Ezekiel 41:25, 1 Kings 5:8

35He carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.

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36He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams.

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1 Kings 7:12, 1 Kings 7:12, Revelation 11:2, Exodus 38:9, Exodus 38:20

37In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the Lord laid, in the month Ziv.

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1 Kings 6:1, 1 Kings 6:1, 2 Chronicles 3:2, 2 Chronicles 3:2

38In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its fashion. So was he seven years in building it.

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1 Kings 7:1, Zechariah 4:9, 1 Kings 7:1, Zechariah 4:9, Ezra 3:8