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God's promise unto it.

BEFORE CHRIST 1012

? Heb. shoulder.

1005.

I. KINGS, VI.

ber 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.

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9 So he built the house, and bver. 14, 38. finished it; and covered the house

3 Or,

the vault beams and the cielings

3 with beams and boards of cedar.

10 And then he built chambers with cedar. against all the house, five cubits high and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

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13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not m for

2 Cor. 6. 16. sake my people Israel.

Rev. 21.3. mDeut.31.6. A ver. 38.

4 Or, from the floor of the house unto the walls, &c. and so ver. 16.

14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, 4 both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even Ex. 26. 33. for the oracle, even for the most holy place.

Lev. 16. 2. ch. 8. 6. 2 Chr. 3. 8. Ezek. 45. 3. Heb. 9. 3.

17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long. 18 And the cedar of the house 60r gourds. within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there

6 Heb. openings of flowers.

7 Heb. shut up.

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was no stone seen.

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19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

20 And the oracle in the forepart 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 so covered the altar which was of cedar. 21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.

22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all Ex. 30. 1, the house: also P the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.

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Ornaments of the temple.

made two cherubims of 23 olive tree, each ten cubits high.

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2 Or, oily.`

3 Heb. trees

24 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from of oil. the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and one size.

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

27 And he set the cherubims with

in the inner house and r they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, 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.

28 And he overlaid the cherubims

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32 The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them 8 Heb. with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.

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33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, o a fourth part of the wall.

openings of flowers.

9 Or, foursquare.

23, 24, 25.

34 And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door. Ezek. 41. were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

35 And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.

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

37 In the fourth year was the t ver. 1. foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:

38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished 2 throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

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Building of Solomon's house. I. KINGS, VII. Hiram's work of the two pillars.

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4 And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.

5 And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and in prospect. light was against light in three ranks. 6 T And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits and the porch was before them and the other pillars and the thick beam were • before them.

5 Or. according to them. 6 Or, according to them.

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7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.

8 ¶ And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.

9 All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.

10 And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. 11 And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.

12 And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house. 13 ¶ And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

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14 He was a widow's son 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 cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.

16 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 other chapiter was five cubits:

17 And 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 the other chapiter.

18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.

19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.

BEFORE CHRIST 1005.

g Ex. 31. 3. & 36.1.

2 Heb.

fashioned.

2 Kings

25. 17. 2 Chr. 3. 15. & 4. 12. Jer. 52. 21.

20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round 1 See about upon the other chapiter.

21 And he set up the pillars in '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.

22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

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2 Chr. 3.16. & 4. 13.

Jer. 52. 23.

k 2 Chr. 3.

17.

ch. 6. 3. That is, establish.

He shall

4 That is, In it is

strength.

m 2 Kings

6 Heb.

23 ¶ And he made ma molten sea, m ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

2 Chr. 4.2. Jer. 52.17. from his brim.

brim to his

24 And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, "compassing the 2 Chr.4.3. sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.

o 2 Chr. 4. 4, 5.

25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and Jer. 52. 20. three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.

Of the ten bases, &c.

BEFORE CHRIST 1005.

p See

2 Chr. 4. 5.

2 Heb. in the base.

3 Heb. nakedness.

q2 Chr. 4.6.

I. KINGS, VII.

26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained P two thousand baths.

27 ¶ And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:

29 And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.

30 And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.

31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.

32 And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.

33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.

34 And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.

35 And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders there

of were of the same.

36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.

37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.

38 ¶ Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four

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41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two "networks, to cover the two bowls ver. 17, 18. of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;

42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars; 4 Heb. upon 43 And the ten bases, and ten the pillars. the face of lavers on the bases;

44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;

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45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of 'bright brass.

9 Ex. 27. 3. 2 Chr. 4. 16.

5 Heb. made

46 In the plain of Jordan did the bright, or, king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.

scoured. t 2 Chr. 4. 17.

the thickness of the ground.

47 And Solomon left all the vessels Heb. in unweighed, 'because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.

48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon a the shewbread was,

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49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,

u Gen. 33. 17.

* Josh. 3.16. 7 Heb. for

the exceed-
tude.
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ing multi

scarched. 1 Chr. 22. 14.

Ex. 37.25, &c.

z Ex. 37. 10, &c.

Ex. 25.30.

Lev. 24.5

8.

Heb. ash

50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of pans. the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.

51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the 2 things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.

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The feast of the dedication

BEFORE CHRIST 1005.

a 2 Chr. 5. 2, &c.

3 Heb. princes.

b2 Sam. 6. 17.

• 2 Sam. 5. 7, 9. & 6. 12, 16.

d Lev.23.34. 2 Chr. 7. 8.

CHAPTER VIII.

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house to dwell in, "a settled place

1 The feast of the dedication of the temple. for thee to abide in for ever.

12, 54 Solomon's blessing. 22 Solomon's prayer. 62 His sacrifice of peace offerings.

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HEN Solomon assembled the THE elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.

2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon. at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 3 And all the elders of Israel Num. 4.15. came, and the priests took up the ark.

1004.

Deut. 31.9. Josh. 3. 3,6. 1 Chr. 15. 14, 15.

f ch. 3. 4.
2 Chr. 1. 3.

g 2 Sam. 6. 13.

h 2 Sam. 6. 17.

34.

ch. 6. 19.

4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.

5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD Ex. 20.33, unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims. 7 For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

k ch. 6. 27.

1 Ex. 25. 14, 15.

3 Heb. heads.

4 Or, ark: as 2 Chr. 5. 9.

m Ex. 25. 21. Deut. 10. 2. n Deut. 10.

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8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without and there they are unto this day.

9 m There was nothing in the ark "save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, P when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,

11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.

12 ¶ Then spake Solomon, The Lev. 16. 2. LORD said that he would dwell the thick darkness.

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Solomon's prayer at the

BEFORE CHRIST 1004.

q 2 Sam. 7. 25.

r 2 Chr. 2. 6. Is. 66. 1. Jer. 23. 24. Acts 7. 49. & 17. 24.

I. KINGS, VIII.

before me as thou hast walked before me.

26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.

27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain 2 Cor. 12. 2. thee; how much less this house that I have builded?

28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:

29 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast Deut.12.11. said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make u2toward this place.

Dan. 6. 10. 2 Or, in this

place. *2 Chr. 20.9. Neh. 1. 6.

30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray 3 Or, in this toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.

place.

31 ¶ If any man trespass against Heb. and his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in Ex. 22. 11. this house:

he require an oath of him, Lev. 5. 1.

Deut. 25.1.

Lev. 26. 17. Deut. 28. 25.

32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

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33 When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, Lev. 26.30, and shall turn again to thee, and conNeh. 1. 9. fess thy name, and pray, and make "Or,toward. supplication unto thee in this house:

40.

€ Lev. 26.19. Deut. 28. 23.

d Ps. 25. 4. & 27. 11. &

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34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers. 35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:

36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou "teach 94. 12 & 143. them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

8.

.1 Sam. 12. 23.

dedication of the temple.

37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

38 What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;) 40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;

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46 If they sin against thee, (m for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives "unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

47 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, Psaying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

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name is called upon

this house.

Heb. the city.

way of the

5 Or, right.

Prov. 20. 9.

m2Chr.6.36. Eccles.7.20. James 3.2.

1 John 8,

10.

Lev. 20.34,

44. Deut. 28. 36,

64.

• Lev. 26.40

Heb. bring

back to their heart.

Neh. 1.6. Dan. 9.5.

Ps. 106. 6.

48 And so return unto thee with a Jer. 29. 12, 13, 14. all their heart, and with all their soul,

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