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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Kings 6 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_kings/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_kings/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > 1 Kings 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_kings/5.htm" title="1 Kings 5">◄</a> 1 Kings 6 <a href="../1_kings/7.htm" title="1 Kings 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/1_kings/6-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Temple Construction Begins<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_chronicles/3.htm">2 Chronicles 3:1–2</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And it will be in the eightieth year and four hundredth year after the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year, in the month of brightness, it the second month to king Solomon over Israel, and he will build the house to Jehovah. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And the house which king Solomon built to Jehovah, sixty cubits its length, and twenty its breadth, and thirty cubits its height. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And the porch upon the face of the temple of the house, twenty cubits its length, upon the face of the breadth of the house; ten by the cubit its breadth upon the face of the house. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And he will make for the house windows of closed bars.<p> <A name="6"></a><p class="hdg">The Chambers<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And he will build upon the wall of the house a floor round about the walls of the house round about for the temple, for the oracle: and he will make ribs round about. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The floor the lower part, five by the cubit its breadth, and the middle, six by the cubit its breadth, and the third, seven by the cubit its breadth: for he gave offsets to the house round about without, so that it laid not hold upon the walls of the house.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the house in its building was built of stone completed from the quarry: and hammers and the axe, every instrument of iron was not heard in the house in its building.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The door of the middle rib to the right shoulder of the house: and they will go up with windings upon the middle, and from the middle to the third. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he will build the house, and he will finish it; and cover the house with arches and rows with cedars. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He will build the floor upon all the house, five cubits its height: and it will hold to the house with woods of cedars.<p> <A name="12"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Promise to Solomon<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the word of Jehovah will be to Solomon, saying, <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>This house which thou didst build, if thou shalt go in my laws, and my judgment thou wilt do, and watch all my commands to go in them; and I lifted up my word with thee which I spake to David thy father. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And I dwelt in the midst of the sons of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel.<p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">The Temple’s Interior<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_chronicles/3.htm#5">2 Chronicles 3:5–9</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Solomon will build the house and finish it.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he will build the walls of the house from within it with ribs of cedars; from the bottom of the house even to the walls of the covering he overlaid with wood from within, and he will overlay the bottom of the house with ribs of cypresses. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And he will build twenty cubits from the thighs of the house with ribs of cedars, from the bottom even to the walls: and he will build for it from within for the oracle to the holy of holies. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And forty by the cubit was the house; it the temple before. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And cedar to the house within carved work with ornaments and opening flower-buds; all cedar: no stone was seen. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the oracle in the midst of the house from within he prepared to give there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And to the face of the oracle twenty cubits the length, and twenty cubits the breadth, and twenty cubits its height: and he will overlay it with gold shut up, and he will overlay the altar with cedar. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Solomon will overlay the house from the inside with gold shut up: and he will close up with chains of gold to the face of the oracle; and he will overlay it with gold. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And all the house he overlaid with gold even till he completed all the house: and all the altar which was to the oracle he overlaid with gold.<p> <A name="24"></a><p class="hdg">The Cherubim<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_chronicles/3.htm#10">2 Chronicles 3:10–13</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And he will make in the oracle two cherubims of woods of oil, ten cubits its height. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And five cubits the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the second wing of the cherub: ten cubits from the extremities of its wings and even to the extremities of its wings. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And ten by the cubit of the second cherub: one measure and one form to the two cherubs. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The height of the one cherub ten by the cubit, and this to the second cherub. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And he will give the cherubims in the midst of the house within: and the cherubims will expand the wings, and the wing of the one will touch upon the wall, and the wing of the second cherub touched upon the second wall; and their wings touched wing to wing to the middle of the house. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And he will overlay the cherubims with gold.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And all the walls of the house round about he carved with engravings of cherubims and palm trees and opening flower-buds from within and to without. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And the bottom of the house he overlaid with gold from within and to without.<p> <A name="32"></a><p class="hdg">The Doors<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And the openings of the oracle he made doors of the woods of oil: the projection of door-posts the fifth. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And two doors of woods of oil; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims, and palm-trees, and opening flower-buds, and he overlaid with gold, and he brought down gold upon the cherubims and upon the palm-trees.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And thus be made for the door of the temple, door-posts of woods of oil from the fourth. <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And two doors of the woods of cypresses: two ribs of the one door rolling, and two ribs of the second door rolling. <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And he carved cherubims and palm-trees, and opening flower-buds; and he overlaid with gold made even upon the carving.<p> <A name="37"></a><p class="hdg">The Courtyard<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And he will build the enclosure of the insides three rows of cuttings, and a row of cuttings of cedars.<p> <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>In the fourth year was the house of Jehovah founded, in the month of brightness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/6-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And in the eleventh year in the month of rain (this the eighth month) was the house finished to all its words and according to all its judgment And he will build it seven years.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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