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1KI 6:1–6:13 ©

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Shelomoh begins temple construction

6:1 Shelomoh begins temple construction

6So it was that four hundred and eighty years after the Israelis left Egypt, in the second month of the fourth year of Shelomoh’s reign over Israel, he began the construction of Yahweh’s residence. 2It would be twenty-seven metres long, nine metres wide, and fourteen metres high.[fn] 3The five-metre wide porch on the front was the same length as the temple width, so nine metres long. 4The window openings narrowed towards the outer edge of the wall. 5Against the outside of the back wall and the two sides, he built three-storey (but lower than the wall) side rooms. 6The lowest level was just over two metres wide, the middle level was half a metre wider, and the top level the same again (because the temple wall got thinner as it went up). The temple walls had ledges built into them for the beams to sit on, so they wouldn’t have to go through the walls.

7While the temple was being built, all of the huge stones were dressed at the quarry site, so there was no noise from any hammer or axe or iron tool at the construction site.

8The entrance to the bottom level of siderooms was on the south side of the temple, then from there, stairs went up to the middle level, and more stairs to the top level. 9So he built the temple walls, then it was roofed with cedar beams and planks, 10and he built the siderooms—each level just over two metres high and attached to the temple with cedar beams.

11Then Yahweh had this message sent to Shelomoh, 12“This residence that you’re building, if you comply with my regulations and follow my judgements and obey all my commands, then I’ll ensure that everything I promised your father David will come to pass. 13I will live among you Israelis and I’ll never abandon my people Israel.”


6:2 About the height of a modern five-storey building (and the same height as Noah’s barge).

1KI 6:1–6:13 ©

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