14 breadth thereof before the house.] (Structural details added by A., So Solomon built the house, 15 and finished it. And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house unto the walls of the cieling, he covered them on the inside with wood: and he covered the floor of the house 16 with boards of fir. And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor unto the walls: he even built them for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy 17 place. And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty 18 cubits. And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. 19 And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of 20 the LORD. And within the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof; and he overlaid it with pure gold and he covered the altar with cedar. 21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it 22 with gold. And the 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. [and the height an hundred and twenty.] And he overlaid it within with 5 pure gold. And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm trees and 6 chains. And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty and the gold was gold of 7 Parvaim b. He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubim on the walls. 8 And he made the most holy house; the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house, b Parvaim here only. A. 1 Kings 6. (Continued.) 23 And in the oracle he made two cherubim of olive wood d, each 24 ten cubits high. And five 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 unto the uttermost part of the other were 25 ten cubits. And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one 26 form. The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was 27 it of the other cherub. And he 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 28 house. And he overlaid the cheru29 bim with gold. And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, 30 within and without. And the floor of the house he overlaid with 31 gold, within and without. And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive wood: the lintel door posts were a fifth 32 part. So . . two doors of olive wood; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold upon the cherubim, and upon the palm trees. 33 So also made he for the entering of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part . .; B. 2 Chron. 3. (Continued.) was twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. 9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. 10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold. 11 And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, reaching to the wing of 12 the other cherub. And the wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house and the other wing was five cubits, joining to the wing of 13 the other cherub. The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house. © B. uses 7 elsewhere of the Most Holy Place, e. g. v. 16. In other Books it is only used in Ps. 28. 2. d Below A. has Dyyyy, which is here only. yy (oil trees), whilst B. has B. 2 Chron. 3. A. 1 Kings 6, 7. (Continued.) 34 and two doors of fir wood; the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the 35 other door were folding. And he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers: and he overlaid them with gold fitted upon 36 the graven work. And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams. 37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Ziv. 38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it. was the son of a widow woman of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in ... brass; . and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and cunning, to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work. 15 For he fashioned the two pillars [of brass], of eighteen cubits high apiece: [and a line of twelve cubits compassed either of 16 them about.] And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the 14 15 and the chapiter that was on the top of each of 16 them was five cubits. And he made chains [in the oracle], and put them on the tops of the e The widow's husband was possibly of the tribe of Naphtali, though the woman herself was of the tribe of Dan. See § 16, B. 14. The difference not easily accounted for. Jer. 52, 21 agrees with A. The height in B. is nearly twice as much, while the number of pomegranates in B. is only half those in A. The word used by B. for chapiter (i. e. capital) in this verse is П, which is used nowhere else. In chap. 4. 12, 13 the ordinary word is used, as also by Jeremiah. A. 1 Kings 7. (Continued.) other chapiter was five cubits. 17 There were nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for 18 the other chapiter. So he made the pillars; and there were two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars and so did he for the 19 other chapiter. And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily 20 work, four cubits. And there were chapiters above also upon the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows round about 21 upon the other chapiter. And he set up the pillars at the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz. B. 2 Chron. 4. of oxen, which did compass it [round about], for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about. The oxen were in two rows, cast 4 when it was cast. It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set upon them above, and all their hinder parts were inward. 5 And it was an handbreadth thick; and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it [received and] held three thousand baths. five on the right and five on [to hand, the left, wash in them; such things as belonged to the burnt offering they washed in them: but the sea was for the priests to wash 7 in. And he made the ten candlesticks of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five 8 on the left. He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an 9 hundred basons of gold. Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and § 19. The knops (Dyp) seem in this verse to take the place of the oxen (p). It may have been a copyist's mistake; but the LXX retains the two texts. The 'knops' in Exodus are . This word is only found later in Amos and Zephaniah (lintel). |