gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.

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And within the oracle he made two cherubim of 13 olive tree, each ten cubits high.

24 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 ten cubits.

25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim 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 cherubim within the inner house and they stretched forth

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ing, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

35 And he carved thereon cherubim 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 founda tion 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 20 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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of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other

the workman maketh the two pillars, 23 the molten sea, 27 the ten bases, 38 the ten lavers, 40 and all the utensils. [B. c. 1005.]

33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, 19 a fourth part of the wall.

34 And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were fold

p Ex. 30. 1, 3, 6, q Ex. 37. 7, 8, 9. 2 Chr. 3. 10, 11, 12. 13 Or, only. Heb. trees of inl. r Ex. 25. 20. & 37. 9. 2 Chr. 5. 8, 14 Or, the cherubim stretchal forth their wings. 15 Heb. openings of flowers. 16 Or, five15 Or,

squire. 11 Or, leaves of the doors. foursquare. 8 Ez. 41. 23, 24, 25.

13 Heb. openings of flowers. t ver. 1. 20 Or, with all the appur

thirteen years, and he finished all his

2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the 'beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.

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 light was against light in three ranks.

6 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.

7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of

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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 a Hiram out of Tyre.

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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 chapi

Of the molten

rows round about upon the one netwo cover the chapiters that were upon the with pomegranates: and so did he fo other chapiter.

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

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And he made a molten se from the one brim to the otl was round all about, and his height u cubits and a line of thirty cubits di pass it round about.

24 And under the brim of it round there were knops compassing it, ter cubit, "compassing the sea roundabo knops were cast in two rows, when cast.

25 It stood upon twelve oxen looking toward the north, and thre ing toward the west, and three look ward the south, and three looking the east and the sea was set abov them, and all their hinder part inward.

26 And it was a handbreadth thi the brim thereof was wrought like t of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it co P two thousand baths.

27 And he made ten bases of four cubits was the length of one b four cubits the breadth thereof, an cubits the height of it.

28 And the work of the bases