1 Kings 6 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
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 — that's the second month — he began building the for Yahweh.
The house that King Solomon built for Yahweh was long, thirty wide, and forty-five tall.
The entrance hall in front of the main room of the house extended thirty feet across the full width of the house, and projected out fifteen feet in front of it.
He made windows for the house with
Against the outer wall of the house he built a structure of rooms all around — running along the walls of both the main room and the inner room. In this way he created all the way around.
The lowest level of side rooms was seven and a half feet wide, the middle level was nine feet wide, and the third level was ten and a half feet wide. He made in the outer wall of the house all around so that the support beams wouldn't have to be inserted into the temple walls themselves.
When the house was being built, it was constructed with at the so that no hammer, chisel, or any iron tool was heard in the house while it was being built.
The entrance to the lowest side rooms was on the south side of the house, and they went up by to the middle level, and from the middle level to the third.
So he built the house and completed it. He roofed it with beams and planks of
He built the structure of side rooms against the entire house, each level seven and a half feet high, and they were attached to the house by cedar beams.
Then the of came to Solomon:
"About this house you are building — if you walk according to my carry out my and keep all my by living by them, then I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David."
"I will the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel."
So Solomon built the house and completed it.
He lined the interior walls of the house with cedar planks — from the floor to the ceiling beams, he covered the inside with wood. And he covered the floor with planks of
He built off thirty feet at the rear of the house with cedar planks from floor to ceiling beams, creating an interior room — the innermost room, the Most
The room in front of it — that is, the of the temple — was sixty feet long.
The cedar inside the house was carved with shapes of and open flowers. Everything was cedar — no stone could be seen anywhere.
He prepared the innermost room inside the house to place the of there.
The innermost room was thirty feet long, thirty feet wide, and thirty feet high — a He overlaid it with pure gold and also covered the cedar altar with gold.
Solomon overlaid the interior of the house with He drew chains across the front of the innermost room, which was also overlaid with
He overlaid the entire interior of the house with gold — every surface of the whole house — and he also completely overlaid the that belonged to the innermost room with gold.
In the innermost room he made two out of each fifteen feet tall.
One wing of the first guardian was seven and a half feet, and the other wing was seven and a half feet—fifteen feet from wingtip to wingtip.
The second guardian also measured fifteen feet. Both guardians had the same measurements and the same form.
The height of each guardian was fifteen feet.
He placed the guardians in the innermost room of the house. Their wings were spread out so that the wing of one touched one wall and the wing of the other touched the opposite wall, while their inner wings touched each other in the middle of the room.
He overlaid the guardians with gold.
All around the walls of the house — both the inner and outer rooms — he carved figures of winged guardians, and open flowers.
He also overlaid the floor of the house with gold—both the inner and outer rooms.
For the entrance to the innermost room, he made doors of olive wood. The doorposts and the frame formed a
On the two doors of olive wood, he carved winged guardians, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold. He hammered the gold over the guardians and palm trees.
In the same way, he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, but with a four-sided frame.
He also made two doors of cypress wood. Each door had two folding panels that could swing open.
He carved winged guardians, palm trees, and open flowers on them, and overlaid them with gold fitted evenly over the carvings.
He built the with three courses of cut stone and one course of cedar beams.
The foundation of Yahweh's house was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv.
In the eleventh year, in the month of — that's the eighth month — the house was finished in every detail, exactly as designed. He had spent building it.