1 In the four hundred and eightieth "year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the LORD.2 The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high. [^2]3 The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple, that is twenty cubits, "and projected ten cubits "from the front of the temple.4 He made narrow windows high up in the temple walls.5 Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms.6 The lowest floor was five cubits "wide, the middle floor six cubits "and the third floor seven. "He made offset ledges around the outside of the temple so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.7 In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built.8 The entrance to the lowest "floor was on the south side of the temple; a stairway led up to the middle level and from there to the third.9 So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks.10 And he built the side rooms all along the temple. The height of each was five cubits, and they were attached to the temple by beams of cedar.11 The word of the LORD came to Solomon:12 "As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, observe my laws and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David your father.13 And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel."14 So Solomon built the temple and completed it.15 He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper.16 He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.17 The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits "long.18 The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.19 He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.20 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.21 Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.22 So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.23 For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high.24 One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits —ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip.25 The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape.26 The height of each cherub was ten cubits.27 He placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple, with their wings spread out. The wing of one cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the other touched the other wall, and their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.28 He overlaid the cherubim with gold.29 On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers.30 He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.31 For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were one fifth of the width of the sanctuary.32 And on the two olive-wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.33 In the same way, for the entrance to the main hall he made doorframes out of olive wood that were one fourth of the width of the hall.34 He also made two doors out of juniper wood, each having two leaves that turned in sockets.35 He carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers on them and overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.36 And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.37 The foundation of the temple of the LORD was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv.38 In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in all its details according to its specifications. He had spent seven years building it.

1 Factum est ergo quadringentesimo et octogesimo anno egressionis filiorum Israël de terra Ægypti, in anno quarto, mense Zio (ipse est mensis secundus), regni Salomonis super Israël, ædificari cœpit domus Domino. 2 Domus autem quam ædificabat rex Salomon Domino, habebat sexaginta cubitos in longitudine, et viginti cubitos in latitudine, et triginta cubitos in altitudine. 3 Et porticus erat ante templum viginti cubitorum longitudinis, juxta mensuram latitudinis templi : et habebat decem cubitos latitudinis ante faciem templi. 4 Fecitque in templo fenestras obliquas. 5 Et ædificavit super parietem templi tabulata per gyrum, in parietibus domus per circuitum templi et oraculi, et fecit latera in circuitu. 6 Tabulatum quod subter erat, quinque cubitos habebat latitudinis, et medium tabulatum sex cubitorum latitudinis, et tertium tabulatum septem habens cubitos latitudinis. Trabes autem posuit in domo per circuitum forinsecus, ut non hærerent muris templi. 7 Domus autem cum ædificaretur, de lapidibus dolatis atque perfectis ædificata est : et malleus, et securis, et omne ferramentum non sunt audita in domo cum ædificaretur. 8 Ostium lateris medii in parte erat domus dextræ : et per cochleam ascendebant in medium cœnaculum, et a medio in tertium. 9 Et ædificavit domum, et consummavit eam : texit quoque domum laquearibus cedrinis. 10 Et ædificavit tabulatum super omnem domum quinque cubitis altitudinis, et operuit domum lignis cedrinis. 11 Et factus est sermo Domini ad Salomonem, dicens : 12 Domus hæc, quam ædificas, si ambulaveris in præceptis meis, et judicia mea feceris, et custodieris omnia mandata mea, gradiens per ea, firmabo sermonem meum tibi, quem locutus sum ad David patrem tuum : 13 et habitabo in medio filiorum Israël, et non derelinquam populum meum Israël.14 Igitur ædificavit Salomon domum, et consummavit eam. 15 Et ædificavit parietes domus intrinsecus tabulatis cedrinis : a pavimento domus usque ad summitatem parietum, et usque ad laquearia, operuit lignis cedrinis intrinsecus : et texit pavimentum domus tabulis abiegnis. 16 Ædificavitque viginti cubitorum ad posteriorem partem templi tabulata cedrina, a pavimento usque ad superiora : et fecit interiorem domum oraculi in Sanctum sanctorum. 17 Porro quadraginta cubitorum erat ipsum templum pro foribus oraculi. 18 Et cedro omnis domus intrinsecus vestiebatur, habens tornaturas et juncturas suas fabrefactas, et cælaturas eminentes : omnia cedrinis tabulis vestiebantur : nec omnino lapis apparere poterat in pariete. 19 Oraculum autem in medio domus, in interiori parte fecerat, ut poneret ibi arcam fœderis Domini. 20 Porro oraculum habebat viginti cubitos longitudinis, et viginti cubitos latitudinis, et viginti cubitos altitudinis : et operuit illud atque vestivit auro purissimo : sed et altare vestivit cedro. 21 Domum quoque ante oraculum operuit auro purissimo, et affixit laminas clavis aureis. 22 Nihilque erat in templo quod non auro tegeretur : sed et totum altare oraculi texit auro. 23 Et fecit in oraculo duos cherubim de lignis olivarum, decem cubitorum altitudinis. 24 Quinque cubitorum ala cherub una, et quinque cubitorum ala cherub altera : id est, decem cubitos habentes, a summitate alæ unius usque ad alæ alterius summitatem. 25 Decem quoque cubitorum erat cherub secundus : in mensura pari, et opus unum erat in duobus cherubim, 26 id est, altitudinem habebat unus cherub decem cubitorum, et similiter cherub secundus. 27 Posuitque cherubim in medio templi interioris : extendebant autem alas suas cherubim, et tangebat ala una parietem, et ala cherub secundi tangebat parietem alterum : alæ autem alteræ in media parte templi se invicem contingebant. 28 Texit quoque cherubim auro. 29 Et omnes parietes templi per circuitum sculpsit variis cælaturis et torno : et fecit in eis cherubim, et palmas, et picturas varias, quasi prominentes de pariete, et egredientes. 30 Sed et pavimentum domus texit auro intrinsecus et extrinsecus. 31 Et in ingressu oraculi fecit ostiola de lignis olivarum, postesque angulorum quinque. 32 Et duo ostia de lignis olivarum : et sculpsit in eis picturam cherubim, et palmarum species, et anaglypha valde prominentia : et texit ea auro, et operuit tam cherubim quam palmas, et cetera, auro. 33 Fecitque in introitu templi postes de lignis olivarum quadrangulatos, 34 et duo ostia de lignis abiegnis altrinsecus : et utrumque ostium duplex erat, et se invicem tenens aperiebatur. 35 Et sculpsit cherubim, et palmas, et cælaturas valde eminentes : operuitque omnia laminis aureis opere quadro ad regulam. 36 Et ædificavit atrium interius tribus ordinibus lapidum politorum, et uno ordine lignorum cedri. 37 Anno quarto fundata est domus Domini in mense Zio : 38 et in anno undecimo, mense Bul (ipse est mensis octavus), perfecta est domus in omni opere suo, et in universis utensilibus suis : ædificavitque eam annis septem.