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class="navigationContents"> <div id="studyDiscover" class="studyPane active tabContent"> <div class="section" data-key="11-6-1" data-section-citation="011006001011006001"><h3 class="title"><span class="scalableui">1 Kings 6:1</span></h3><div class="group index collapsible collapsed"><div class="header"><span class="marker"><span class="icon"></span></span><span class="icon"></span><h4 class="title"><span class="scalableui">Indexes</span></h4></div><ul class="content"><li class="item ref-rsg" data-extract-id=""><div class="subtitle">Research Guide</div><span class="scalableui"><p id="p93" data-pid="93" class="se"></p> <p id="p94" data-pid="94" class="su"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1204400/64/0"><em>Insight,</em> Volume 1<em>,</em> p. 461</a></p> <div id="p95" data-pid="95"><p data-pid="95" class="su"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1204400/65/0"><em>Awake!,</em></a></p><p data-pid="95" class="sk"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1204400/65/0">5/2012, p. 17</a></p> </div><p id="p96" data-pid="96" class="su"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1204400/66/0"><em>“All Scripture,”</em> p. 47</a></p> <p id="p97" data-pid="97" class="se"></p> </span></li><li class="item ref-dx" data-extract-id=""><div class="subtitle">Publications Index</div><span class="scalableui"><p id="p44" data-pid="44" class="sx"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200270011/42/0">it-1 461;</a><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200270011/42/2"> g 5/12 17;</a><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200270011/42/4"> si 47;</a></p> <p id="p45" data-pid="45" class="sx"></p> <p id="p60" data-pid="60" class="sx"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200020011/58/0">w74 507;</a><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200020011/58/2"> po 120;</a><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200020011/58/4"> ka 207-209;</a><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200020011/58/7"> ad 335,</a><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200020011/58/8"> 541;</a><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200020011/58/9"> kj 27;</a><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200020011/58/10"> w68 496;</a><span class="ni"> li 32;</span><span class="ni"> g66 1/8 24;</span><span class="ni"> bf 101;</span><span class="ni"> w48 92;</span><span class="ni"> tf 150;</span><span class="ni"> w38 183;</span><span class="ni"> v-3 102</span></p> <p id="p61" data-pid="61" class="sx"></p> </span></li></ul></div></div><div class="section" data-key="11-6-2" data-section-citation="011006002011006002"><h3 class="title"><span class="scalableui">1 Kings 6:2</span></h3><div class="group index collapsible collapsed"><div class="header"><span class="marker"><span class="icon"></span></span><span class="icon"></span><h4 class="title"><span class="scalableui">Indexes</span></h4></div><ul class="content"><li class="item ref-dx" data-extract-id=""><div class="subtitle">Publications Index</div><span class="scalableui"><p id="p61" data-pid="61" class="sx"><span class="ni">tf 150</span></p> <p id="p62" data-pid="62" class="sx"></p> </span></li></ul></div></div><div class="section" data-key="11-6-3" data-section-citation="011006003011006003"><h3 class="title"><span class="scalableui">1 Kings 6:3</span></h3><div class="group index collapsible collapsed"><div class="header"><span class="marker"><span class="icon"></span></span><span class="icon"></span><h4 class="title"><span class="scalableui">Indexes</span></h4></div><ul class="content"><li class="item ref-rsg" data-extract-id=""><div class="subtitle">Research Guide</div><span class="scalableui"><p id="p97" data-pid="97" class="se"></p> <p id="p98" data-pid="98" class="su"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1204400/67/0"><em>Insight,</em> Volume 2<em>,</em> p. 654</a></p> <p id="p99" data-pid="99" class="se"></p> </span></li><li class="item ref-dx" data-extract-id=""><div class="subtitle">Publications Index</div><span class="scalableui"><p id="p45" data-pid="45" class="sx"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200270011/43/0">it-2 654</a></p> <p id="p46" data-pid="46" class="sx"></p> </span></li></ul></div></div><div class="section" data-key="11-6-5" data-section-citation="011006005011006005"><h3 class="title"><span class="scalableui">1 Kings 6:5</span></h3><div class="group footnote"><div class="header"><span class="marker"><span class="icon"></span></span><span class="icon"></span><h4 class="title"><span class="scalableui">Footnotes</span></h4></div><ul class="content"><li class="item footnote" data-extract-id="verseFootnote-25"><span class="marker"><span class="scalableui">*</span></span><span class="scalableui"><p id="p175" data-pid="175"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1101972144/24/0">6:5</a> <em>Var.</em> against the wall of the house a girdle round the nave and</p> </span></li></ul></div></div><div class="section" data-key="11-6-6" data-section-citation="011006006011006006"><h3 class="title"><span class="scalableui">1 Kings 6:6</span></h3><div class="group index collapsible collapsed"><div class="header"><span class="marker"><span class="icon"></span></span><span class="icon"></span><h4 class="title"><span class="scalableui">Indexes</span></h4></div><ul class="content"><li class="item ref-dx" data-extract-id=""><div class="subtitle">Publications Index</div><span class="scalableui"><p id="p62" data-pid="62" class="sx"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200020011/60/0">w59 568</a></p> <p id="p63" data-pid="63" class="sx"></p> </span></li></ul></div></div><div class="section" data-key="11-6-7" data-section-citation="011006007011006007"><h3 class="title"><span class="scalableui">1 Kings 6:7</span></h3><div class="group index collapsible collapsed"><div class="header"><span class="marker"><span class="icon"></span></span><span class="icon"></span><h4 class="title"><span class="scalableui">Indexes</span></h4></div><ul class="content"><li class="item ref-dx" data-extract-id=""><div class="subtitle">Publications Index</div><span class="scalableui"><p id="p63" data-pid="63" class="sx"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200020011/61/0">w59 568;</a><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200020011/61/1"> w51 598</a></p> <p id="p64" data-pid="64" class="sx"></p> </span></li></ul></div></div><div class="section" data-key="11-6-8" data-section-citation="011006008011006008"><h3 class="title"><span class="scalableui">1 Kings 6:8</span></h3><div class="group footnote"><div class="header"><span class="marker"><span class="icon"></span></span><span class="icon"></span><h4 class="title"><span class="scalableui">Footnotes</span></h4></div><ul class="content"><li class="item footnote" data-extract-id="verseFootnote-26"><span class="marker"><span class="scalableui">*</span></span><span class="scalableui"><p id="p176" data-pid="176"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1101972144/25/0">6:8</a> <em>Lit.</em> was at the right shoulder of the house</p> </span></li></ul></div></div><div class="section" data-key="11-6-9" data-section-citation="011006009011006009"><h3 class="title"><span class="scalableui">1 Kings 6:9</span></h3><div class="group footnote"><div class="header"><span class="marker"><span class="icon"></span></span><span class="icon"></span><h4 class="title"><span class="scalableui">Footnotes</span></h4></div><ul class="content"><li class="item footnote" data-extract-id="verseFootnote-27"><span class="marker"><span class="scalableui">*</span></span><span class="scalableui"><p id="p177" data-pid="177"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1101972144/26/0">6:9</a> <em>Or</em> and wainscoted the house with</p> </span></li></ul></div></div><div class="section" data-key="11-6-10" data-section-citation="011006010011006010"><h3 class="title"><span class="scalableui">1 Kings 6:10</span></h3><div class="group footnote"><div class="header"><span class="marker"><span class="icon"></span></span><span class="icon"></span><h4 class="title"><span class="scalableui">Footnotes</span></h4></div><ul class="content"><li class="item footnote" data-extract-id="verseFootnote-28"><span class="marker"><span class="scalableui">*</span></span><span class="scalableui"><p id="p178" data-pid="178"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1101972144/27/0">6:10</a> <em>Conj.</em> fifteen cubits</p> </span></li></ul></div></div><div class="section" data-key="11-6-17" data-section-citation="011006017011006017"><h3 class="title"><span class="scalableui">1 Kings 6:17</span></h3><div class="group footnote"><div class="header"><span class="marker"><span class="icon"></span></span><span class="icon"></span><h4 class="title"><span class="scalableui">Footnotes</span></h4></div><ul class="content"><li class="item footnote" data-extract-id="verseFootnote-29"><span class="marker"><span class="scalableui">*</span></span><span class="scalableui"><p id="p179" data-pid="179"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1101972144/28/0">6:17</a> <em>Var.</em> was the nave in front of</p> </span></li></ul></div></div><div class="section" data-key="11-6-18" data-section-citation="011006018011006018"><h3 class="title"><span class="scalableui">1 Kings 6:18</span></h3><div class="group index collapsible collapsed"><div class="header"><span class="marker"><span class="icon"></span></span><span class="icon"></span><h4 class="title"><span class="scalableui">Indexes</span></h4></div><ul class="content"><li class="item ref-rsg" data-extract-id=""><div class="subtitle">Research Guide</div><span class="scalableui"><p id="p99" data-pid="99" class="se"></p> <p id="p100" data-pid="100" class="su"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1204400/68/0"><em>Insight,</em> Volume 1<em>,</em> p. 991</a></p> <p id="p101" data-pid="101" class="se"></p> </span></li><li class="item ref-dx" data-extract-id=""><div class="subtitle">Publications Index</div><span class="scalableui"><p id="p46" data-pid="46" class="sx"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200270011/44/0">it-1 991;</a></p> <p id="p47" data-pid="47" class="sx"></p> <p id="p64" data-pid="64" class="sx"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200020011/62/0">ad 680</a></p> <p id="p65" data-pid="65" class="sx"></p> </span></li></ul></div></div><div class="section" data-key="11-6-20" data-section-citation="011006020011006020"><h3 class="title"><span class="scalableui">1 Kings 6:20</span></h3><div class="group footnote"><div class="header"><span class="marker"><span class="icon"></span></span><span class="icon"></span><h4 class="title"><span class="scalableui">Footnotes</span></h4></div><ul class="content"><li class="item footnote" data-extract-id="verseFootnote-30"><span class="marker"><span class="scalableui">*</span></span><span class="scalableui"><p id="p180" data-pid="180"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1101972144/29/0">6:20</a> <em>Codd.</em> And before the shrine was</p> </span></li></ul></div><div class="group index collapsible collapsed"><div class="header"><span class="marker"><span class="icon"></span></span><span class="icon"></span><h4 class="title"><span class="scalableui">Indexes</span></h4></div><ul class="content"><li class="item ref-dx" data-extract-id=""><div class="subtitle">Publications Index</div><span class="scalableui"><p id="p65" data-pid="65" class="sx"><span class="ni">bf 658;</span><span class="ni"> sr55 74</span></p> <p id="p66" data-pid="66" class="sx"></p> </span></li></ul></div></div><div class="section" data-key="11-6-23" data-section-citation="011006023011006023"><h3 class="title"><span class="scalableui">1 Kings 6:23</span></h3><div class="group footnote"><div class="header"><span class="marker"><span class="icon"></span></span><span class="icon"></span><h4 class="title"><span class="scalableui">Footnotes</span></h4></div><ul class="content"><li class="item footnote" data-extract-id="verseFootnote-31"><span class="marker"><span class="scalableui">*</span></span><span class="scalableui"><p id="p181" data-pid="181"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1101972144/30/0">6:23</a> <em>Codd. have verse 26</em> (the height . . . second cherub) <em>after verse 25 instead of here</em></p> </span></li></ul></div><div class="group index collapsible collapsed"><div class="header"><span class="marker"><span 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data-section-citation="011006029011006029"><h3 class="title"><span class="scalableui">1 Kings 6:29</span></h3><div class="group footnote"><div class="header"><span class="marker"><span class="icon"></span></span><span class="icon"></span><h4 class="title"><span class="scalableui">Footnotes</span></h4></div><ul class="content"><li class="item footnote" data-extract-id="verseFootnote-32"><span class="marker"><span class="scalableui">*</span></span><span class="scalableui"><p id="p182" data-pid="182"><a href="/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1101972144/31/0">6:29</a> <em>Var. omits</em> and open flowers</p> </span></li></ul></div><div class="group index collapsible collapsed"><div class="header"><span class="marker"><span class="icon"></span></span><span class="icon"></span><h4 class="title"><span class="scalableui">Indexes</span></h4></div><ul class="content"><li class="item ref-dx" data-extract-id=""><div class="subtitle">Publications Index</div><span class="scalableui"><p id="p67" data-pid="67" 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out of Egypt, in the fourth year, blossom moon (second month), of Solomon’s reign over Israel, he built the house for Jehovah. </span><span id="v11-6-2-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8898" class="vl vx vp">2 </a>And the house King Solomon built for Jehovah was ninety feet long and thirty wide, and forty-five feet high; </span><span id="v11-6-3-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8899" class="vl vx vp">3 </a>and the porch on the nave side of the house was thirty feet long in the direction of the breadth of the house, and fifteen feet wide in the direction of the length of the house. </span><span id="v11-6-4-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8900" class="vl vp">4 </a>And he made the house windows with closed frames; </span><span id="v11-6-5-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8901" class="vl vp">5</a><a id="footnotesource25" data-fnid="25" class="fn" href="/en/wol/fn/r1/lp-e/1101972144/24">*</a> and he built against the wall of the house a girdle round the walls of the house, round the nave and the shrine, and made by-rooms around it. </span><span id="v11-6-6-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8902" class="vl vx vp">6 </a>(The undermost by-room was seven and a half feet wide, and the middle one nine feet, and the third ten and a half feet; for he gave the house offsets around it on the outside, to avoid taking a hold in the walls of the house; </span><span id="v11-6-7-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8903" class="vl vx vp">7 </a>and the house, when it was built, was built of entire stone as quarried, and hammer or pick or any iron tool was never heard in the house while it was being built.) </span><span id="v11-6-8-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8904" class="vl vp">8</a><a id="footnotesource26" data-fnid="26" class="fn" href="/en/wol/fn/r1/lp-e/1101972144/25">*</a> The door of the undermost by-room was at the southeast corner of the house, and they went up by trapdoors to the middle one, and from the middle to the third. </span><span id="v11-6-9-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8905" class="vl vp">9</a><a id="footnotesource27" data-fnid="27" class="fn" href="/en/wol/fn/r1/lp-e/1101972144/26">*</a> And he built the house and finished it, and roofed the house with cedar timber, beams and boards; </span><span id="v11-6-10-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8906" class="vl vp">10</a><a id="footnotesource28" data-fnid="28" class="fn" href="/en/wol/fn/r1/lp-e/1101972144/27">*</a> and he built the girdle against the whole house, seven and a half feet in height, and attached it to the house with cedar girders.</span></p> <p id="p33" data-pid="33" class="sb"><span id="v11-6-11-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8907" class="vl vp">11 </a>And Jehovah’s word came to Solomon, </span><span id="v11-6-12-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8908" class="vl vp">12 </a>“This house which you are building—if you go by my usages and live up to my laws and keep all my commandments, going by them, I will make good with you my promise that I gave to your father David, </span><span id="v11-6-13-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8909" class="vl vp">13 </a>and will dwell among the sons of Israel and not leave my people Israel.”</span></p> <p id="p34" data-pid="34" class="sb"><span id="v11-6-14-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8910" class="vl vp">14 </a>And Solomon built the house and finished it, </span><span id="v11-6-15-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8911" class="vl vp">15 </a>and built the walls of the house on the inside with cedar planks; from the floor of the house to the girders of the ceiling he lined with wood, and he floored the house with cypress planks. </span><span id="v11-6-16-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8912" class="vl vp">16 </a>And he built thirty feet at the back of the house with cedar planks from floor to girders, and finished it on the inside as a shrine, holiest of the holy; </span><span id="v11-6-17-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8913" class="vl vp">17</a><a id="footnotesource29" data-fnid="29" class="fn" href="/en/wol/fn/r1/lp-e/1101972144/28">*</a> and sixty feet was the house (that is, the nave) in front of the shrine.— </span><span id="v11-6-18-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8914" class="vl vx vp">18 </a>And there wash cedar on the house inside, carving of gourds and open flowers, all cedar, no stone visible. </span><span id="v11-6-19-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8915" class="vl vp">19 </a>And he arranged a shrine inside, within the house, to put the ark of Jehovah’s covenant in. </span><span id="v11-6-20-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8916" class="vl vx vp">20</a><a id="footnotesource30" data-fnid="30" class="fn" href="/en/wol/fn/r1/lp-e/1101972144/29">*</a> The shrine was thirty feet in length and thirty feet in breadth and thirty feet in height; and he gilded it all over. </span><span id="v11-6-21-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8917" class="vl vp">21 </a>And he made a cedar altar in front of the shrine, and gilded it. </span><span id="v11-6-22-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8918" class="vl vp">22 </a>And he gilded the whole house, every bit of it, and gilded the shrine’s whole altar.</span></p> <p id="p35" data-pid="35" class="sb"><span id="v11-6-23-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8919" class="vl vx vp">23</a><a id="footnotesource31" data-fnid="31" class="fn" href="/en/wol/fn/r1/lp-e/1101972144/30">*</a> And in the shrine he made two cherubs of wild olive wood: the height of the first cherub was fifteen feet, and so was the second cherub, fifteen feet was its height; </span><span id="v11-6-24-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8920" class="vl vp">24 </a>and seven and a half feet was the cherub’s first wing and seven and a half feet the cherub’s second wing, <span id="page459" class="pageNum" aria-hidden="true" data-no="459" data-before-text="459"></span>fifteen feet from tip to tip of its wings, </span><span id="v11-6-25-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8921" class="vl vp">25 </a>and fifteen feet the second cherub; </span><span id="v11-6-26-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8922" class="vl vp">26 </a>both cherubs had the same dimensions and the same shape. </span><span id="v11-6-27-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8923" class="vl vx vp">27 </a>And he put the cherubs into the inner house; and they spread out their wings, and the wing of the one touched the wall, and the wing of the other cherub the other wall, and the wings touched each other in the middle of the house; </span><span id="v11-6-28-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8924" class="vl vp">28 </a>and he gilded the cherubs.</span></p> <p id="p36" data-pid="36" class="sb"><span id="v11-6-29-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8925" class="vl vx vp">29</a><a id="footnotesource32" data-fnid="32" class="fn" href="/en/wol/fn/r1/lp-e/1101972144/31">*</a> And he carved all the walls of the house around with intaglio carvings of cherubs and palm trees and open flowers, for the inner house and the outer. </span><span id="v11-6-30-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8926" class="vl vp">30 </a>And the floor of the house he gilded, for the inner house and the outer. </span><span id="v11-6-31-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8927" class="vl vx vp">31</a><a id="footnotesource33" data-fnid="33" class="fn" href="/en/wol/fn/r1/lp-e/1101972144/32">*</a> And at the entrance of the shrine he made wild-olive-wood doors, the jambs pentagonal posts; and two wild-olive-wood doors, </span><span id="v11-6-32-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8928" class="vl vp">32</a><a id="footnotesource34" data-fnid="34" class="fn" href="/en/wol/fn/r1/lp-e/1101972144/33">*</a> which he carved with cherubs and palm trees and open flowers, and gilded them, and rammed over the cherubs and palm trees the gold. </span><span id="v11-6-33-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8929" class="vl vp">33 </a>And in the same way he made for the entrance of the nave wild-olive-wood posts, square posts, </span><span id="v11-6-34-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8930" class="vl vp">34 </a>and two cypress doors, two folding leaves to one door and two folding leaves to the other door; </span><span id="v11-6-35-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8931" class="vl vp">35 </a>and he carved them with cherubs and palm trees and open flowers, and gilded them with gold trimmed to fit the design. </span><span id="v11-6-36-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8932" class="vl vx vp">36 </a>And he built the inner court in three courses of dressed stone and one of blocks of cedar.</span></p> <p id="p37" data-pid="37" class="sb"><span id="v11-6-37-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8933" class="vl vx vp">37 </a>In the fourth year the foundation was laid for Jehovah’s house, in the blossom moon; </span><span id="v11-6-38-1" class="v"><a href="/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1101972144/8934" class="vl vx vp">38 </a>and in the eleventh year, in the Bul moon (that is, the eighth month), the house was finished in every detail in full accordance with its plan. 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