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1 Kings 6 Summary
Building the House of the LORD
In the four hundred and eightieth year after Israel's exodus from Egypt and the fourth year of Solomon's reign, he begins building the house of the LORD. The temple is sixty cubits long, twenty wide, and thirty high, with a porch before it and chambers built round about. The house is constructed from stone prepared beforehand so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron is heard while building. Solomon overlays the interior with cedar and gold, including the oracle and inner sanctuary where two gold-covered cherubims sit. He builds the altar of cedar and overlays it with gold, furnishing the temple with vessels of pure gold. The house is finished in seven years.
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1 Kings 6:1
“And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.”
1 Kings 6:7
“And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.”
1 Kings 6:19
“And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.”
1 Kings 6:38
“And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished 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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