I Kings 6 · מלכים א

And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Yisra᾽el were come out of the land of Miżrayim, in the fourth year of Shelomo’s reign over Yisra᾽el, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.

And the house which king Shelomo built for the Lord, its length was sixty cubits, and its breadth was twenty cubits, and its height was thirty cubits.

And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was its length, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was its breadth before the house.

And for the house he made windows wide without, and narrow within.

And against the wall of the house he built a side structure round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the sanctuary: and he made chambers round about:

the lowest chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for outside in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened into the walls of the house.

And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought there: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was being built.

The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.

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

And then he built the side structure against all the house, five cubits high: and it rested on the house with timber of cedar.

And the word of the Lord came to Shelomo, saying,

Concerning this house, which thou art building, if thou wilt follow my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spoke to David thy father:

and I will dwell among the children of Yisra᾽el, and will not forsake my people Yisra᾽el.

So Shelomo built the house, and finished it.

And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house even to the walls of the ceiling he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of cypress.

And he built twenty cubits on the back of the house, from the floor to the top of the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, for the sanctuary, that is for the most holy place.

And the house, that is, the temple in front, was forty cubits long.

And the cedar of the house within was carved with colocynths and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

And the sanctuary he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

And the space for the sanctuary 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.

So Shelomo overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the sanctuary; and he overlaid it with gold.

And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the sanctuary he overlaid with gold.

And within the sanctuary he made two keruvim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

And five cubits was the one wing of the keruv, and five cubits the other wing of the keruv: from the uttermost part of the one wing to the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

And the other keruv was ten cubits: both the keruvim were of one measure and one form.

The height of the one keruv was ten cubits, and so was that of the other keruv.

And he set the keruvim within the inner house: and the wings of the keruvim were spread out, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other keruv touched the other wall; and the wings which they stretched towards the midst of the house touched one another.

And he overlaid the keruvim with gold.

And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of keruvim and palm trees and open flowers, both for the inner and outer areas.

And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, for the inner and outer areas.

And for the entering of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood: the lintel and side posts forming five sides.

The two doors also were of olive wood; and he carved upon them carvings of keruvim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread the gold upon the keruvim and upon the palm trees.

So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive wood, in shape foursided.

And the two doors were of cypress wood: the one door had two folding leaves, and the other door had two folding leaves.

And he carved on them keruvim and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.

And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.

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

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