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1 Kings 6

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1 Kings 6 . 1

1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the LORD.IP2 Chronicles 3:1-2C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:1TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom) Solomon's Temple (Glory of God's Dwelling)

1 Kings 6 . 2

2 The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:2TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 3

3 The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:3TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 4

4 He also had narrow windows framed high in the temple.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:4TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 5

5 Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:5TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 6

6 The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:6TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 7

7 The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14 Deuteronomy 27:5 Exodus 20:25C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:7TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 8

8 The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:8TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 12

12 “As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:12TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 13

13 And I will dwell among the Israelites and will not abandon My people Israel.”IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:13TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 14

14 So Solomon built the temple and finished it.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:14TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 15

15 He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.IPHaggai 1:4 2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:15TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom) Zerubbabel (Royal Seed Rebuilding)

1 Kings 6 . 16

16 He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:16TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 17

17 And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:17TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 18

18 The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:18TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 19

19 Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:19TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 20

20 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:20TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 21

21 So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:21TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

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22 So he overlaid with gold the whole interior of the temple, until everything was completely finished. He also overlaid with gold the entire altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:22TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 23

23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:23TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

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24 One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing was five cubits long as well. So the full wingspan was ten cubits.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:24TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

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25 The second cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same size and shape,IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:25TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 26

26 and the height of each cherub was ten cubits.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 27

27 And he placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple. Since their wings were spread out, the wing of the first cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the second cherub touched the other wall, and in the middle of the room their wingtips touched.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:27TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 28

28 He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 29

29 Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:29TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 30

30 And he overlaid the temple floor with gold in both the inner and outer sanctuaries.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:30TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 31

31 For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon constructed doors of olive wood with five-sided doorposts.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:31TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 32

32 The double doors were made of olive wood, and he carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:32TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 33

33 In the same way he made four-sided doorposts of olive wood for the sanctuary entrance.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:33TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 34

34 The two doors were made of cypress wood, and each had two folding panels.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:34TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 35

35 He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold, hammered evenly over the carvings.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:35TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 36

36 Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:36TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 37

37 The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, in the month of Ziv.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:37TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Kings 6 . 38

38 In his eleventh year and eighth month, the month of Bul, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.IP2 Chronicles 3:3-14C1 Kings 6:1-37TOSK1 Kings 6:38TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

Linked Mentions 18

Intertextuality Pairs 10

Trajectory Tables 5

Chiasm 1

1 Kings 6:1–37 — Chiasm

Cycles 2

In the wider web10 threads

Intertextuality Pairs

Quotations 2 Chronicles 3:1-2 → 1 Kings 6:1, 2 Chronicles 3:3-14 → 1 Kings 6:2-38

Allusions 1 Kings 6:7 → Deuteronomy 27:5, 1 Kings 6:7 → Exodus 20:25, Haggai 1:4 → 1 Kings 6:15

Trajectories

Eden as Temple (Original Sanctuary), Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom), Solomon's Temple (Glory of God's Dwelling), Zerubbabel (Royal Seed Rebuilding)

Chiasms

Shaped 1 Kings 6:1–37