24 For he had all the country which was Thy son, whom I will set upon the throne beyond the river, from Thaphsa to Gazan, in thy place, he shall build a house to my and all the kings of those countries: and he name. had peace on every side round about.

Hiram king of Tyre agreeth to furnish timber and 15 And Solomon had seventy thousand to workmen for building the temple: the number of work-carry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountain:

vants to Solomon: for he heard that every work, in number three thousand, and they had anointed him king in the room of three hundred that ruled over the people, his father for Hiram had always been Da-and them that did the work. vid's friend.

Lord spoke to David my father, saying: A 4 it came to pass ** in the four hun

dren of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, boards of cedar at the hinder part of the in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon temple, from the floor to the top and made over Israel, in the month Zio (the same is the inner house of the oracle to be the Holy the second month,) he began to build a house of Holies. to the Lord.

2 And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord, was threescore cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and thirty cubits in height.

3 And there was a porch before the temple of twenty cubits in length, according to the measure of the breadth of the temple: and it was ten cubits in breadth before the face of the temple.

4 And he made in the temple oblique windows.

5 And upon the wall of the temple he built floors round about, in the walls of the house round about the temple and the oracle, and he made sides round about.

6 The floor that was underneath, was five cubits in breadth, and the middle floor was six cubits in breadth, and the third floor was seven cubits in breadth. And he put beams in the house round about on the outside, that they might not be fastened in the walls of the temple.

7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones hewed and made ready: so that there was neither haminer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house when it was in building.

8 The door for the middle side was on the right hand of the house: and by winding stairs they went up to the middle room, and from the middle to the third.

9 So he built the house, and finished it: and he covered the house with roofs of cedar.

10 And he built a floor over all the house five cubits in height, and he covered the house with timber of cedar.

11 And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying:

12 This house, which thou buildest, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments, walking in them, I will fulfil my word to thee which I spoke to David thy father. 13 +And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

14 So Solomon built the house and finished it.

15 And he built the walls of the house on the inside, with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the top of the walls, and to the roofs, he covered it with boards of cedar on the inside: and he covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

17 Aud the temple itself before the doors of the oracle was forty cubits long.

18 And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought and carvings projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar and no stone could be seen in the wall at all.

19 And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner part, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

20 Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered and overlaid it with most pure gold. And the altar also he covered with cedar.

21 And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of gold.

22 And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with gold: the whole altar of the oracle he covered also with gold.

23 And he made in the oracle two cherubims of olive-tree, of ten cubits in height.

24 One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the cherub was five cubits: that is, in all ten cubits, from the extremity of one wing to the extremity of the other wing.

25 The second cherub also was ten cubits: and the measure, and the work was the same in both the cherubims:

26 That is to say, one cherub was ten cubits high, and in like manner the other cherub.

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27 And he set the cherubims in the midst of the inner temple and the cherubims stretched forth their wings, and the wing of the one touched one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall: and the other wings in the midst of the temple touched one another.

28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.

29 And all the walls of the temple round about he carved with divers figures and carvings: and he made in them cherubims and palm-trees, and divers representations, as it were standing out, and coming forth from the wall.

30 And the floor of the house he also overlaid with gold within and without. 31 And in the entrance of the oracle he made little doors of olive-tree, and posts of five corners.

32 And two doors of olive-tree: and he 16 And he built up twenty cubits with carved upon them figures of cherubims, and

* 2 Kings, 7. 16.

CHAP. VI. Ver. 5. Upon the wall, i. e., joining to the wall.-Ibid. He built floors round about. Chambers or cells adjoining to the temple, for the use of the temple and of the priests, so contrived as to be between the inward and outward wall of the temple, in three stories, one above another.—Ibid. The oracle. The inner temple or holy of holies, where]

+1 Par. 22. 9.

God gave his oracles.-Ver. 7. Made ready, &c. So the stones for the building of God's eternal temple in the heavenly Jerusalem, (who are the faithful, must first be hewn and polished here by many trials and sufferings, before they can be admitted to have a place in that celestial structure.

cubits:

11 And above there were costly stones of equal measure hewed, and in like manner of cedar:

figures of palm trees, and carvings very much 10 And the foundations were of costly projecting: and he overlaid them with gold: stones, great stones of ten cubits or eight and he covered both the cherubims and the palm-trees, and the other things with gold. 33 And he made in the entrance of the temple posts of olive-tree four-square: 34 And two doors of fir-tree, one of each 12 And the greater court round with side and each door was double, and so open-three rows of hewed stones, and one row of ed with folding leaves. planed cedar, moreover also in the inner 35 And he carved cherubims, and palm-court of the house of the Lord, and in the trees, and carved work standing very much porch of the house. out: and he overlaid all with golden plates in square work by rule.

36 And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones, and one row of beams of cedar.

37 In the fourth year was the house of the Lord founded in the month Zio:

38 And in the eleventh year in the month Bul (which is the eighth month) the house was finished in all the works thereof, and in all the appurtenances thereof: and he was seven years in building it.

CHAP. VII.

Solomon's palace, his house in the forest, and the queen's house: the work of the two pillars: the sea (or laver) and other vessels.

ND Solomon built his own house in

13 And king Solomon sent, and brought Hiram from Tyre,

14 The son of a widow woman of the tribe of Nephtali, whose father was a Tyrian, an artificer in brass, and full of wisdom, and understanding, and skill to work all work in brass. And when he was come to king So|lomon, he wrought all his work.

15 And he cast two pillars in brass, each pillar was eighteen cubits high: § and a line of twelve cubits compassed both the pillars.

16 He made also two chapiters of molten brass, to be set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of one chapiter was five cubits and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:

17 And a kind of net-work, and chainwork wreathed together with wonderful art.

A thirteen years, brought it to per- chapters were cast:

fection.

seven rows of nets were on one chapiter, and seven nets on the other chapiter.

2 He built also the house of the forest of Libanus, the length of it was a hundred cu- 18 And he made the pillars, and two bits, and the breadth fifty cubits, and the rows round about each net-work to cover height thirty cubits: and four galleries be- the chapiters, that were upon the top, with tween pillars of cedar: for he had cut cedar-pomegranates: and in like manner did he to trees into pillars. the other chapiter.

3 And he covered the whole vault with boards of cedar, and it was held up with five and forty pillars. And one row had fifteen pillars,

4 Set one against another,

5 And looking one upon another, with equal space between the pillars, and over the pillars were square beams in all things equal.

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

20 And again other chapiters in the top of the pillars above, according to the measure of the pillar over-against the net-work: and of pomegranates there were two hundred in rows round about the other chapiter.

21 And he set up the two pillars in the 6 And he made a porch of pillars of fifty porch of the temple: and when he had set cubits in length, and thirty cubits in breadth: up the pillar on the right hand, he called the and another porch before the greater porch: name thereof Jachin: in like manner he set and pillars, and chapiters upon the pillars. up the second pillar, and called the name 7 He made also the porch of the throne, thereof Booz. wherein is the seat of judgment: and covered it with cedar-wood from the floor to the top. 8 And in the midst of the porch, was a small house where he sat in judgment, of the like work. He made also a house for the daughter of Pharao (‡ whom Solomon had taken to wife) of the same work, as this porch,

9 All of costly stones, which were sawed by a certain rule and measure both within and without: from the foundation to the top of the walls, and without unto the great

court.

* A. M. 3000. A, C, 1094—† Sup. 6. 38. and Inf. 9. CHAP. VII. Ver. 21. Jachin. That is, firmly established.-Ibid. Booz. That is, in its strength. By recording these names in holy writ, the Spirit of

22 And upon the tops of the pillars he made lily-work: so the work of the pillars was finished.

23 | He made also a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round all about the height of it, was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.

24 And a graven work under the brim of it compassed it, for ten cubits going about the sca: there were two rows cast of chamfered sculptures.

25 And it stood upon twelve oxen, of which three looked towards the north, and |10.—† Supra, 3. 1.—§ Jer, 52. 21.—|| 2 Par. 4. 2. God would have us understand the invincible firmnness and strength of the pillars on which the true temple of God, which is the church, is established,

three towards the west, and three towards 41 The two pillars and the two cords of the south, and three towards the east, and the chapiters, upon the chapiters of the pilthe sea was above upon them, and their lars: and the two net-works, to cover the two hinder parts were all hid within. cords, that were upon the top of the pil

26 And the laver was a hand breadth thick: lars. and the brim thereof was like the brim of a cup, or the leaf of a crisped lily: it contained two thousand bates.

27 And he made ten bases of brass, every base was four cubits in length, and four cubits in breadth, and three cubits high.

28 And the work itself of the bases, was intergraven: and there were gravings between the joinings.

29 And between the little crowns and the ledges were lions, and oxen, and cherubims: and in the joinings likewise above: and under the lions and oxen, as it were bands of brass hanging down.

30 And every base had four wheels, and axletrees of brass: and at the four sides were undersetters under the laver molten, looking one against another.

31 The mouth also of the laver within, was in the top of the chapiter: and that which appeared without, was of one cubit all round, and together it was one cubit and a half: and in the corners of the pillars were divers engravings: and the spaces between the pillars were square, not round.

32 And the four wheels, which were at the four corners of the base, were joined one to another under the base: the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.

33 And they were such wheels as are used to be made in a chariot: and their axletrees, and spokes, and strakes, and naves, were all

cast.

34 And the four undersetters that were at every corner of each base, were of the base itself cast and joined together.

42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two net-works: two rows of pomegranates for each net-work, to cover the cords of the chapiters, which were upon the tops of the pillars.

43 And the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases.

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

45 And the caldrons, and the shovels, and the basins. All the vessels that Hiram made for king Solomon for the house of the Lord, were of fine brass.

46 In the plains of the Jordan did the king cast them in a clay ground, between Socoth and Sartham.

47 And Solomon placed all the vessels: but for exceeding great multitude the brass could not be weighed.

48 And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of the Lord: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, upon which the loaves of proposition should be set:

49 And the golden candlesticks, five on the right hand, and five on the left, over-against the oracle, of pure gold: and the flowers like lilies, and the lamps over them of gold: and golden snuffers,

50 And pots, and flesh-hooks, and bowls, and mortars, and censers, of most pure gold: and the hinges for the doors of the inner house of the holy of holies, and for the doors of the house of the temple were of gold.

51 And Solomon finished all the work that he made in the house of the Lord, and brought in the things that David his father 35 And in the top of the base there was a had dedicated, the silver and the gold, and round compass of half a cubit, so wrought the vessels, and laid them up in the treasures that the laver might be set thereon, having of the house of the Lord.

its gravings, and divers sculptures of itself.

CHAP. VIII.

36 He engraved also in those plates, which The dedication of the temple: Solomon's prayer and were of brass, and in the corners, cherubims, and lions, and palm-trees, in likeness of a man standing, so that they seemed not to be the princes of the tribes, and the heads

engraven, but added round about.

37 After this manner he made ten bases, of one casting and measure, and the like graving.

38 He made also ten lavers of brass: one laver contained four bases, and was of four cubits: and upon every base, in all ten, he put as many lavers.

39 And he set the ten bases, five on the right side of the temple, and five on the left: and the sea he put on the right side of the temple over-against the east southward.

40 And Hiram made caldrons, and shovels, and basins, and finished all the work of king Solomon in the temple of the Lord.

2 Par. 5. 1.-† A. M. 3001. A. C. 1003.

sacrifices.
ancients of Israel

with

of the families of the children of Israel were assembled to king Solomon in Jerusalem : that they might carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, that is, out of Sion.

2 And all Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon on the festival day in the month of Ethanim, the same is the seventh month.

3 And all the ancients of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark,

4 And carried the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the covenant, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, that were in the ta bernacle: and the priests and the levites carried them.

2 Par. 5. 2.

Ver. 26. Two thousand bates. That is, about ten if brim full, of holding three thousand. See 2 Purathousand gallons. This was the quantity of water lip. iv. 5. which was usually pnt into it: but it was capable, |

5 And king Solomon, and all the multitude of Israel, that were assembled unto hin: went with him before the ark, and they sa crificed sheep and oxen that could not b counted or numbered.

6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into its place, into the oracle of the temple, into the holy of holies under the wings of the cherubims.

7 For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and covered the ark, and the staves thereof above.

8 And whereas the staves stood out, the ends of them were seen without in the sanctuary before the oracle, but were not seen farther out, and there they have been unto this day.

9 Now in the ark there was nothing else * but the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, 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 sanctuary, that a cloud filled the house of the Lord,

11 And 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 Solomon said: † The Lord said. that he would dwell in a cloud.

13 Building I have built a house for thy dwelling, to be thy most firm throne for ever. 14 And the king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: for all the assembly of Israel stood.

15 And Solomon said: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and with his own hands hath accomplished it, saying:

16 Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built, that my name might be there: but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

17 And David my father would have. built a house to the name of the Lord the God of Israel:

18 And the Lord said to David my father: Whereas thou hast thought in thy heart to build a house to my name, thou hast done well in having this same thing in thy mind. 19 Nevertheless thou shalt not build me a house, but thy son, that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name. 20 The Lord hath performed his word which he spoke and I stand in the room of David my father, and sit upon the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised: and have built a house to the name of the Lord the God of Israel.

21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the sight of the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands towards heaven;

23 And said: Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heaven above, or on earth beneath: who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that have walked before thee with all their heart.

24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father what thou hast promised him: with thy mouth thou didst speak, and with thy hands thou hast performed, as this day proveth.

25 Now therefore, O Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father what thou hast spoken to him, saying: There shall not be taken away of thee a man in my sight, to sit on the throne of Israel: yet so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked in my sight.

26 And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy words be established, which thou hast spoken to thy servant David my father.

27 Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?

28 But have regard to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, O Lord my God: hear the hymn and the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee this day:

29 That thy eyes may be open upon this house night and day: upon the house of which thou hast said: || My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth in this place to thee.

30 That thou mayest hearken to the supplication of thy servant and of thy people Israel, whatsoever they shall pray for in this place, and hear them in the place of thy dwelling in heaven; and when thou hearest, shew them mercy.

31 If any man trespass against his neighbour, and have an oath upon him, wherewith he is bound: and come because of the oath before thy altar to thy house,

32 Then hear thou in heaven: and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, and bringing his way upon his own head, and justifying the just, and rewarding him according to his justice.

33 If thy people Israel shall fly before their enemics (because they will sin against thee) and doing penance, and confessing to thy name, shall come, and pray, and make supplications to thee in this house:

34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them back to the land which thou gavest to their fathers.

35 If heaven shall be shut up, and there shall be no rain, because of their sins, and

Exod. 34. 27. Heb. 9. 4.-† 2 Par. 6. 1. 2 Kings, 7. 5.-§ 2 Kings, 7. 12.- Deut. 12. 11. CHAP. VIII. Ver. 9. Nothing else, &c. There were also the rod of Aaron, and a golden urn with was nothing else but the tables of the law within the manna. Hcb. ix. 4. rk. But on the outside of the ark, or near the ark,