1 Kings 6 Cross References - BBE

¹ In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started. ² The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. ³ The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house. ⁴ And for the house he made windows, with network across. ⁵ And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round: ⁶ The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house. ⁷ And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out; there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house. ⁸ The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third. ⁹ So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood. ¹⁰ And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood. ¹¹ {\I And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying, ¹² About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father. ¹³ And I will be ever among the children of Israel, and will not go away from my people. ¹⁴ So Solomon made the building of the house complete.} ¹⁵ The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood. ¹⁶ And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room. ¹⁷ And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long. ¹⁸ All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside. ¹⁹ And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord. ²⁰ And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold. ²¹ Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front of the inmost room, which itself was covered with gold. ²² Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold. ²³ In the inmost room he made two winged beings of olive-wood, ten cubits high; ²⁴ With outstretched wings five cubits wide; the distance from the edge of one wing to the edge of the other was ten cubits. ²⁵ The two winged ones were ten cubits high, of the same size and form. ²⁶ The two of them were ten cubits high. ²⁷ These were placed inside the inner house, their outstretched wings touching the walls of the house, one touching one wall and one the other, while their other wings were touching in the middle. ²⁸ These winged ones were plated over with gold. ²⁹ And all the walls of the house inside and out were ornamented with forms of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers. ³⁰ And the floor of the house was covered with gold, inside and out. ³¹ For the way into the inmost room he made doors of olive-wood, the arch and the door supports forming a five-sided opening. ³² On the olive-wood doors were cut designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, all of them, with the doors, plated with gold. ³³ Then he made pillars of olive-wood for the way into the Temple; the pillars were square: ³⁴ And two folding doors of cypress-wood, with two leaves. ³⁵ These were ornamented with designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, plated over with gold. ³⁶ And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards. ³⁷ In the fourth year the base of the house was put in its place, in the month Ziv. ³⁸ And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the building of the house was complete in every detail, as it had been designed. So he was seven years building it.

²⁴ So he sent the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden he put winged ones and a flaming sword turning every way to keep the way to the tree of life.

²⁵ And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.

⁸ And let them make me a holy place, so that I may be ever present among them.

¹⁸ And at the two ends of the cover you are to make two winged ones of hammered gold, ¹⁹ One at one end and one at the other; the winged ones are to be part of the cover. ²⁰ And their wings are to be outstretched over the cover, and the winged ones are to be opposite one another, facing the cover.

²⁰ And their wings are to be outstretched over the cover, and the winged ones are to be opposite one another, facing the cover. ²¹ And put the cover over the ark, and in the ark the record which I will give you. ²² And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel.

²² And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel.

²³ With two boards for the angles of the House at the back.

²⁹ And the boards are to be plated with gold, having gold rings for the rods to go through: and the rods are to be plated with gold.

³² Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases. ³³ And you are to put up the veil under the hooks, and put inside it the ark of the law: the veil is to be a division between the holy place and the most holy.

³³ And you are to put up the veil under the hooks, and put inside it the ark of the law: the veil is to be a division between the holy place and the most holy. ³⁴ You are to put the cover on the ark of the law, inside the most holy place.

⁹ And let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits long. ¹⁰ Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be of silver. ¹¹ And on the north side in the same way, hangings a hundred cubits long, with twenty pillars of brass on bases of brass; their hooks and their bands are to be of silver. ¹² And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases; ¹³ And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide. ¹⁴ On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases; ¹⁵ And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases. ¹⁶ And across the doorway, a veil of twenty cubits of the best linen, made of needlework of blue and purple and red, with four pillars and four bases. ¹⁷ All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass. ¹⁸ The open space is to be a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, with sides five cubits high, curtained with the best linen, with bases of brass. ¹⁹ All the instruments for the work of the House, and all its nails, and the nails of the open space are to be of brass.

¹ And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made.

¹ And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made. ² The altar is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high, and its horns are to be made of the same. ³ It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it.

³ It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it.

⁵ And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold. ⁶ And let it be placed in front of the veil before the ark of the law, before the cover which is over the law, where I will come face to face with you.

⁸ Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers.

³⁴ All the boards were plated with gold, and the rings through which the rods went were of gold, and the rods were plated with gold.

⁷ And he made two winged ones, hammered out of one bit of gold, for the two ends of the cover; ⁸ Placing one at one end and one at the other; the winged ones were part of the cover. ⁹ And their wings were stretched out over the cover; the faces of the winged ones were opposite one another and facing the cover.

⁹ And their wings were stretched out over the cover; the faces of the winged ones were opposite one another and facing the cover.

⁹ To make the open space, he put hangings on the south side, of the best linen, a hundred cubits long: ¹⁰ Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were brass; and the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver. ¹¹ And for the north side. hangings a hundred cubits long, on twenty brass pillars in brass bases, with silver hooks and bands. ¹² And on the west side, hangings fifty cubits long, on ten pillars in ten bases, with silver bands. ¹³ And on the east side, the open space was fifty cubits long. ¹⁴ The hangings on one side of the doorway were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases; ¹⁵ And the same on the other side of the doorway; on this side and on that the hangings were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases. ¹⁶ All the hangings were of the best linen. ¹⁷ And the bases of the pillars were of brass; their hooks and the bands round the tops of them were of silver; all the pillars were ringed with silver. ¹⁸ And the curtain for the doorway of the open space was of the best linen, with designs of blue and purple and red in needlework; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high, to go with the hangings round the sides. ¹⁹ There were four pillars with their bases, all of brass, the hooks being of silver, and their tops and their bands being covered with silver. ²⁰ All the nails used for the House and the open space round it were of brass.

²⁰ And he took the law and put it inside the ark, and put the rods at its side and the cover over it; ²¹ And he took the ark into the House, hanging up the veil before it as the Lord had given him orders.

² The Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, your brother, that he may not come at all times into the holy place inside the veil, before the cover which is on the ark, for fear that death may overtake him; for I will be seen in the cloud on the cover of the ark.

¹¹ And I will put my holy House among you, and my soul will not be turned away from you in disgust.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai, in the Tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt,

⁸⁹ And when Moses went into the Tent of meeting to have talk with him, then the Voice came to his ears from over the cover which was on the ark of witness, from between the two winged ones. And he had talk with him.

⁵ There you are to make an altar to the Lord your God, of stones on which no iron instrument has been used. ⁶ You are to make the altar of the Lord your God of uncut stones; offering on it burned offerings to the Lord your God:

⁶ Be strong and take heart, and have no fear of them: for it is the Lord your God who is going with you; he will not take away his help from you.

⁸ It is the Lord who goes before you; he will be with you, he will not take away his help from you or give you up: so have no fear.

⁵ While you are living, all will give way before you: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not take away my help from you or give you up.

²⁶ While Israel was living in Heshbon and its daughter-towns and in Aroer and its daughter-towns and in all the towns which are by the side of the Arnon, for three hundred years, why did you not get them back at that time?

¹⁴ If in the fear of the Lord you are his servants, hearing his voice and not going against the orders of the Lord, but being true to the Lord your God, you and the king ruling over you, then all will be well: ¹⁵ But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord, but go against his orders, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and against your king for your destruction, as it was against your fathers.

²² For the Lord will not give his people up, because of the honour of his name; for it was the Lord's pleasure to make of you a people for himself.

¹² And when the time comes for you to go to rest with your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, the offspring of your body, and I will make his kingdom strong. ¹³ He will be the builder of a house for my name, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever. ¹⁴ I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men; ¹⁵ But my mercy will not be taken away from him, as I took it from him who was before you. ¹⁶ And your family and your kingdom will keep their place before me for ever: the seat of your authority will never be overturned.

³ And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go, ⁴ So that the Lord may give effect to what he said of me, If your children give attention to their ways, living uprightly before me with all their heart and their soul, you will never be without a man to be king in Israel.

¹⁴ And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life.

⁸ Then Hiram sent to Solomon, saying; The words you sent have been given to me: I will do all your desire in the question of cedar-wood and cypress-wood.

¹⁷ By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone. ¹⁸ Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

¹ In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started. ² The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. ³ The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.

⁵ And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:

⁹ So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.

¹⁴ So Solomon made the building of the house complete.}

¹⁶ And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

¹⁸ All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside. ¹⁹ And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.

¹⁹ And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord. ²⁰ And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold.

²⁰ And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold.

²⁰ And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold. ²¹ Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front of the inmost room, which itself was covered with gold. ²² Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold.

²⁹ And all the walls of the house inside and out were ornamented with forms of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers.

³¹ For the way into the inmost room he made doors of olive-wood, the arch and the door supports forming a five-sided opening. ³² On the olive-wood doors were cut designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, all of them, with the doors, plated with gold.

³⁷ In the fourth year the base of the house was put in its place, in the month Ziv. ³⁸ And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the building of the house was complete in every detail, as it had been designed. So he was seven years building it.

¹ Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.

⁷ Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.

¹² The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.

²⁴ And under the edge of it, circling it all round for ten cubits, were two lines of flower buds, made together with it from liquid metal.

⁴⁸ And Solomon had all the vessels made for use in the house of the Lord: the altar of gold and the gold table on which the holy bread was placed;

⁶ And the priests took the ark of the agreement of the Lord and put it in its place in the inner room of the house, in the most holy place, under the wings of the winged ones.

⁶ And the priests took the ark of the agreement of the Lord and put it in its place in the inner room of the house, in the most holy place, under the wings of the winged ones. ⁷ For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods.

⁷ For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods. ⁸ The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place, in front of the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside: and there they are to this day. ⁹ There was nothing in the ark but the two flat stones which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made an agreement with the children of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁰ Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, the house of the Lord was full of the cloud,

²⁵ So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel before me, if only your children give attention to their ways, walking before me as you have done.

²⁷ But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!

³ And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times. ⁴ As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions; ⁵ Then I will make the seat of your rule over Israel certain for ever, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be king in Israel. ⁶ But if you are turned from my ways, you or your children, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods and give them worship:

²⁶ For the four chief door-keepers, who were Levites, had a special position, looking after the rooms and the store-houses of the house of God.

¹⁰ He will be the builder of a house for my name; he will be to me a son, and I will be to him a father; and I will make the seat of his rule over Israel certain for ever.

²⁸ Their place was by the side of the sons of Aaron in all the work of the house of the Lord, in the open spaces and in the rooms, in the making clean of all the holy things, in doing all the work of the house of the Lord,

⁹ And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.

¹¹ Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the doorway of the house of God and of its houses and its store-houses, and the higher rooms and the inner rooms and the place for the mercy-seat;

²⁰ And David said to his son Solomon, Be strong and of a good heart and do your work; have no fear and do not be troubled, for the Lord God, my God, is with you; he will not give you up, and his face will not be turned away from you, till all the work necessary for the house of the Lord is complete.

¹⁹ And give to Solomon my son a true heart, to keep your orders, your rules, and your laws, and to do all these things, and to put up this great house for which I have made ready.

¹ Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. ² The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.

² The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule. ³ And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. ⁴ And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.

⁷ All the house was plated with gold, the supports, the steps, the walls and the doors; and the walls were ornamented with designs of winged ones.

⁷ All the house was plated with gold, the supports, the steps, the walls and the doors; and the walls were ornamented with designs of winged ones. ⁸ And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.

⁸ And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.

⁸ And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it. ⁹ And fifty shekels weight of gold was used for the nails. He had all the higher rooms plated with gold.

⁹ And fifty shekels weight of gold was used for the nails. He had all the higher rooms plated with gold. ¹⁰ And in the most holy place he made images of two winged beings, covering them with gold.

¹⁰ And in the most holy place he made images of two winged beings, covering them with gold. ¹¹ Their outstretched wings were twenty cubits across; one wing, five cubits long, touching the wall of the house, and the other, of the same size, meeting the wing of the other winged one.

¹¹ Their outstretched wings were twenty cubits across; one wing, five cubits long, touching the wall of the house, and the other, of the same size, meeting the wing of the other winged one.

¹¹ Their outstretched wings were twenty cubits across; one wing, five cubits long, touching the wall of the house, and the other, of the same size, meeting the wing of the other winged one. ¹² And in the same way, the wings of the other, five cubits long, were stretched out, one touching the wall and the other meeting the wing of the first winged one.

¹² And in the same way, the wings of the other, five cubits long, were stretched out, one touching the wall and the other meeting the wing of the first winged one. ¹³ Their outstretched wings were twenty cubits across; they were placed upright on their feet, facing the inner part of the house.

¹³ Their outstretched wings were twenty cubits across; they were placed upright on their feet, facing the inner part of the house. ¹⁴ And he made the veil of blue and purple and red, of the best linen, worked with winged ones.

¹⁴ And he made the veil of blue and purple and red, of the best linen, worked with winged ones.

¹⁴ And he made the veil of blue and purple and red, of the best linen, worked with winged ones. ¹⁵ And in front of the house he made two pillars, thirty-five cubits high, with crowns on the tops of them, five cubits high. ¹⁶ And he made chains, like neck ornaments, and put them on the tops of the pillars, and a hundred apples on the chains.

² And he made the great water-vessel of metal, round in form, measuring ten cubits across from edge to edge; it was five cubits high and thirty cubits round. ³ And under it was a design of flowers all round it, ten to a cubit, circling the water-vessel in two lines; they were made from liquid metal at the same time as the water-vessel. ⁴ It was supported on twelve oxen, three facing to the north, three to the west, three to the south, and three to the east, the water-vessel resting on top of them; their back parts were all turned to the middle of it. ⁵ It was as thick as a man's open hand, and the edge of it was curved like the edge of a cup, like a lily flower; it would take three thousand baths.

⁹ Then he made the open space for the priests, and the great open space and its doors, plating the doors with brass.

²⁰ And the supports for the lights with their lights, to be burning in the regular way in front of the inmost room, of the best gold;

⁷ And the priests took the ark of the Lord's agreement and put it in its place, in the inner room of the house, in the most holy place, under the wings of the winged ones. ⁸ For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods. ⁹ The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place before the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside; and there they are to this day.

⁷ Then Solomon made holy the middle of the open square in front of the house of the Lord, offering the burned offerings there, and the fat of the peace-offerings; for there was not room on the brass altar which Solomon had made for all the burned offerings and the meal offerings and the fat.

¹⁷ And as for you, if you will go on your way before me as David your father did, doing whatever I have given you orders to do and keeping my laws and my decisions: ¹⁸ Then I will make strong the seat of your kingdom, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be ruler in Israel.

¹¹ Then Hezekiah said that store-rooms were to be made ready in the house of the Lord; and this was done.

⁸ Now in the second year of their coming into the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, the work was taken in hand by Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come from the land where they were prisoners to Jerusalem: and they made the Levites, of twenty years old and over, responsible for overseeing the work of the house of the Lord. ⁹ Then Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel with his sons, the sons of Hodaviah, together took up the work of overseeing the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad with their sons and their brothers, the Levites. ¹⁰ And when the builders put in position the base of the Temple of the Lord, the priests, dressed in their robes, took their places with horns, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with brass instruments, to give praise to the Lord in the way ordered by David, king of Israel. ¹¹ And they gave praise to the Lord, answering one another in their songs and saying, For he is good, for his mercy to Israel is eternal. And all the people gave a great cry of joy, when they gave praise to the Lord, because the base of the Lord's house was put in place. ¹² But a number of the priests and Levites and the heads of families, old men who had seen the first house, when the base of this house was put down before their eyes, were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy: ¹³ So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.

³ In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made an order: In connection with the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be put up, the place where they make offerings, and let the earth for the bases be put in place; let it be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide; ⁴ With three lines of great stones and one line of new wood supports; and let the necessary money be given out of the king's store-house;

¹⁴ And the responsible men of the Jews went on with their building, and did well, helped by the teaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, the son of Iddo. They went on building till it was complete, in keeping with the word of the God of Israel, and the orders given by Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes, king of Persia. ¹⁵ And the building of this house was complete on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the rule of Darius the king.

³⁷ And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land.

⁴⁴ And on that day certain men were put over the rooms where the things which had been given were stored, for the lifted offerings and the first-fruits and the tenths, and to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town, fixed by the law for the priests and the Levites: for Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.

⁵ Had made ready for him a great room, where at one time they kept the meal offerings, the perfume, and the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil which were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers, and the lifted offerings for the priests. ⁶ But all this time I was not at Jerusalem: for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes, king of Babylon, I went to the king; and after some days, I got the king to let me go, ⁷ And I came to Jerusalem; and it was clear to me what evil Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in making ready for him a room in the buildings of the house of God. ⁸ And it was evil in my eyes: so I had all Tobiah's things put out of the room. ⁹ Then I gave orders, and they made the rooms clean: and I put back in them the vessels of the house of God, with the meal offerings and the perfume.

¹⁰ And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.

² Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.

¹⁸ You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.

¹ To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm. Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.

¹² The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon. ¹³ Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens. ¹⁴ They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth; ¹⁵ For a sign that the Lord is upright; he is my Rock, there is no deceit in him.

²⁰ Give praise to the Lord, you his angels, who are great in strength, doing his orders, and waiting for his voice.

¹² If your children keep my word, and the teachings which I will give them, their children will be rulers of your kingdom for ever.

¹² If your children keep my word, and the teachings which I will give them, their children will be rulers of your kingdom for ever. ¹³ For the Lord's heart is on Zion, desiring it for his resting-place.

² Give praise to him, all you his angels: give praise to him, all his armies.

²⁷ Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.

⁴ Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

⁹ My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.

¹⁶ O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.

² He will make no cry, his voice will not be loud: his words will not come to men's ears in the streets.

¹¹ O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be sapphires. ¹² I will make your towers of rubies, and your doors of carbuncles, and the wall round you will be of all sorts of beautiful stones.

¹⁵ For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.

¹⁷ In place of brass, I will give gold, and for iron silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make Peace your judge, and Righteousness your overseer.

⁴ And I took them into the house of the Lord, into the room of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the rulers' room, which was over the room of Maaseiah, the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door;

² And he said to the man clothed in linen, Go in between the wheels, under the winged ones, and get your two hands full of burning coals from between the winged ones and send them in a shower over the town. And he went in before my eyes. ³ Now the winged ones were stationed on the right side of the house when the man went in; and the inner square was full of the cloud. ⁴ And the glory of the Lord went up from the winged ones and came to rest over the doorstep of the house; and the house was full of the cloud and the open square was full of the shining of the Lord's glory. ⁵ And the sound of the wings of the winged ones was clear even in the outer square, like the voice of the Ruler of all. ⁶ And when he gave orders to the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the winged ones, then he went in and took his place at the side of a wheel. ⁷ And stretching out his hand to the fire which was between the winged ones, he took some of it and went out. ⁸ And I saw the form of a man's hands among the winged ones under their wings. ⁹ And looking, I saw four wheels by the side of the winged ones, one wheel by the side of a winged one and another wheel by the side of another: and the wheels were like the colour of a beryl stone to the eye. ¹⁰ In form the four of them were all the same, they seemed like a wheel inside a wheel. ¹¹ When they were moving, they went on their four sides without turning; they went after the head in the direction in which it was looking; they went without turning. ¹² And the edges of the four wheels were full of eyes round about. ¹³ As for the wheels, they were named in my hearing, the circling wheels. ¹⁴ And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a winged one, and the second was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. ¹⁵ And the winged ones went up on high: this is the living being which I saw by the river Chebar. ¹⁶ And when the winged ones went, the wheels went by their side: and when their wings were lifted to take them up from the earth, the wheels were not turned from their side. ¹⁷ When they were at rest in their place, these were at rest; when they were lifted up, these went up with them: for the spirit of life was in them. ¹⁸ Then the glory of the Lord went out from the doorstep of the house, and came to rest over the winged ones. ¹⁹ And the winged ones, lifting up their wings, went up from the earth before my eyes, with the wheels by their side: and they came to rest at the east doorway of the Lord's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them on high. ²⁰ This is the living being which I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and it was clear to me that they were the winged ones. ²¹ Every one had four faces and every one had four wings; and hands like a man's hands were under their wings. ²² As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose form I saw by the river Chebar; when they went, every one of them went straight forward.

²⁶ And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever. ²⁷ And my House will be over them; and I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people. ²⁸ And the nations will be certain that I who make Israel holy am the Lord, when my holy place is among them for ever.

¹ In the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the first month of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the town was taken, on the very same day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he took me there. ² In the visions of God he took me into the land of Israel, and put me down on a very high mountain, on which there was, as it seemed, a building like a town opposite me. ³ He took me there, and I saw a man, looking like brass, with a linen cord in his hand and a measuring rod: and he was stationed in the doorway. ⁴ And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes and give hearing with your ears, and take to heart everything I am going to let you see; for in order that I might let you see them, you have come here: and give an account of all you see to the children of Israel. ⁵ And there was a wall on the outside of the house all round, and in the man's hand there was a measuring rod six cubits long by a cubit and a hand's measure: so he took the measure of the building from side to side, one rod; and from base to top, one rod. ⁶ Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide. ⁷ And the watchmen's rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod. ⁸ And he took the measure of the covered way of the doorway inside, ⁹ Eight cubits; and its uprights, two cubits; the covered way of the doorway was inside. ¹⁰ And the rooms of the doorway on the east were three on this side and three on that; all three were of the same size; and the uprights on this side and on that were of the same size. ¹¹ And he took the measure of the opening of the doorway, ten cubits wide; and the way down the doorway was thirteen cubits; ¹² And the space in front of the rooms, a cubit on this side and a cubit on that side; and the rooms six cubits on this side and six cubits on that. ¹³ And he took the measure of the doorway from the back of one room to the back of the other, twenty-five cubits across, from door to door. ¹⁴ And he took the measure of the covered way, twenty cubits; and opening from the covered way of the doorway was the open square round about. ¹⁵ And from before the opening of the doorway to before the inner covered way of the doorway was fifty cubits. ¹⁶ And the rooms and their uprights had sloping windows inside the doorway all round, and in the same way the covered way had windows all round on the inside: and on every upright there were palm-trees.

¹⁶ And the rooms and their uprights had sloping windows inside the doorway all round, and in the same way the covered way had windows all round on the inside: and on every upright there were palm-trees. ¹⁷ Then he took me into the outer square, and there were rooms and a stone floor made for the open square all round: there were thirty rooms on the stone floor. ¹⁸ And the stone floor was by the side of the doorways, and was as wide as the doorways were long, even the lower floor. ¹⁹ Then he took the measure of the square across, from before the lower doorway inside to before the inner doorway outside, one hundred cubits. And he took me in the direction of the north, ²⁰ And there was a doorway to the outer square, looking to the north; and he took the measure of it to see how wide and how long it was. ²¹ And it had three rooms on this side of it and three on that; its uprights and its covered ways were the same size as those of the first doorway: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ²² And its windows, and the windows of its covered ways, and its palm-trees, were the same as those of the doorway looking to the east; and there were seven steps up to it; and the covered way went inside. ²³ And there was a doorway to the inner square opposite the doorway on the north, like the doorway on the east; and he took the measure from doorway to doorway, a hundred cubits. ²⁴ And he took me to the south, and I saw a doorway looking to the south: and he took the measure of its rooms and its uprights and its covered ways by these measures. ²⁵ And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round, like the other windows: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ²⁶ And there were seven steps up to it, and its covered way went inside: and it had palm-trees, one on this side and one on that, on its uprights. ²⁷ And there was a doorway to the inner square looking to the south: he took the measure from doorway to doorway to the south, a hundred cubits. ²⁸ Then he took me to the inner square by the south doorway: and he took the measure of the south doorway by these measures; ²⁹ And the rooms in it and the uprights and the covered ways, by these measures: ³⁰ And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ³¹ The covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; and there were palm-trees on the uprights: and there were eight steps going up to it. ³² And he took me into the inner square facing the east: and he took the measure of the doorway by these measures; ³³ And of the rooms in it and its uprights and its covered ways, by these measures: and there were windows in it and in the covered way round about: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ³⁴ And the covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it. ³⁵ And he took me to the north doorway: and he took the measure of it by these measures; ³⁶ Its rooms, its uprights, and its covered way had the same measures, and its covered way had windows all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ³⁷ Its uprights were on the side nearest to the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it. ³⁸ And there was a room with a door in the covered way of the doorway, where the burned offering was washed. ³⁹ And in the covered way of the doorway there were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, on which the burned offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error were put to death: ⁴⁰ On the outer side, to the north, as one goes up to the opening of the doorway, were two tables. ⁴¹ There were four tables on one side and four tables on the other, by the side of the doorway; eight tables, on which they put to death the beasts for the offerings.

⁴⁴ And he took me into the inner square, and there were two rooms in the inner square, one at the side of the north doorway, facing south; and one at the side of the south doorway, facing north.

¹ And he took me to the Temple, and took the measure of the uprights, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other. ² And the door-opening was ten cubits wide; and the side walls of the door-opening were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. ³ And he went inside and took the measure of the uprights of the door-opening, two cubits: and the door-opening, six cubits; and the side-walls of the door-opening were seven cubits on one side and seven cubits on the other. ⁴ And by his measure it was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide in front of the Temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place. ⁵ Then he took the measure of the wall of the house, which was six cubits; and of the side-rooms round the house, which were four cubits wide.

⁵ Then he took the measure of the wall of the house, which was six cubits; and of the side-rooms round the house, which were four cubits wide. ⁶ And the side-rooms, room over room, were three times thirty; there were inlets in the wall of the house for the side-rooms round about, for supports in the wall of the house.

⁶ And the side-rooms, room over room, were three times thirty; there were inlets in the wall of the house for the side-rooms round about, for supports in the wall of the house.

⁶ And the side-rooms, room over room, were three times thirty; there were inlets in the wall of the house for the side-rooms round about, for supports in the wall of the house. ⁷ The side-rooms became wider as they went higher up the house, by the amount of the space let into the wall up round about the house, because of the inlets in the house; and one went up from the lowest floor by steps to the middle, and from the middle to the upper floor.

⁷ The side-rooms became wider as they went higher up the house, by the amount of the space let into the wall up round about the house, because of the inlets in the house; and one went up from the lowest floor by steps to the middle, and from the middle to the upper floor.

⁷ The side-rooms became wider as they went higher up the house, by the amount of the space let into the wall up round about the house, because of the inlets in the house; and one went up from the lowest floor by steps to the middle, and from the middle to the upper floor. ⁸ And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high.

⁸ And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high. ⁹ The wall supporting the side-rooms on the outside was five cubits thick: and there was a free space of five cubits between the side-rooms of the house.

⁹ The wall supporting the side-rooms on the outside was five cubits thick: and there was a free space of five cubits between the side-rooms of the house. ¹⁰ And between the rooms was a space twenty cubits wide all round the house.

¹⁰ And between the rooms was a space twenty cubits wide all round the house. ¹¹ And the free space had doors opening from the side-rooms, one door on the north and one door on the south: and the free space was five cubits wide all round.

¹¹ And the free space had doors opening from the side-rooms, one door on the north and one door on the south: and the free space was five cubits wide all round. ¹² And the building which was in front of the separate place at the side to the west was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all round and ninety cubits long. ¹³ And he took the measure of the house; it was a hundred cubits long; and the separate place and the building with its walls was a hundred cubits long; ¹⁴ And the east front of the house and of the separate place was a hundred cubits wide. ¹⁵ And he took the measure of the building in front of the separate place which was at the back of it, and the pillared walks on one side and on the other side; they were a hundred cubits long; and the Temple and the inner part and its outer covered way were covered in;

¹⁵ And he took the measure of the building in front of the separate place which was at the back of it, and the pillared walks on one side and on the other side; they were a hundred cubits long; and the Temple and the inner part and its outer covered way were covered in; ¹⁶ And the sloping windows and the covered ways round all three of them were of shakiph-wood all round from the level of the earth up to the windows;

²³ The Temple had two doors. ²⁴ And the holy place had two doors, and the doors had two turning leaves, two for one and two for the other. ²⁵ And on them were pictured winged ones and palm-trees, as on the walls; and a (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) of wood was on the front of the covered way outside. ²⁶ And there were sloping windows and palm-trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the covered way: and the side-rooms of the house and the (UNTRANSLATED TEXT)

³ Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor. ⁴ And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north. ⁵ And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms. ⁶ For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level. ⁷ And the wall which went outside by the side of the rooms, in the direction of the outer square in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long. ⁸ For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits. ⁹ And under these rooms was the way in from the east side, as one goes into them from the outer square at the head of the outer wall. ¹⁰ And he took me to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms. ¹¹ And there was a walk in front of them like that by the rooms on the north; they were equally long and wide; and the ways out of them were the same in design and had the same sort of doors. ¹² And under the rooms on the south was a door at the head of the outer wall in the direction of the east as one goes in.

³ And of this measure, let a space be measured, twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide: in it there will be the holy place, even the most holy.

⁷ These are the words of the Lord of armies: If you will go in my ways and keep what I have put in your care, then you will be judge over my Temple and have the care of my house, and I will give you the right to come in among those who are there.

⁹ The hands of Zerubbabel have put the base of this house in place, and his hands will make it complete; and it will be clear to you that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.

¹² And say to him, These are the words of the Lord of armies: See, the man whose name is the Branch, under whom there will be fertile growth. ¹³ And he will be the builder of the Temple of the Lord; and the glory will be his, and he will take his place as ruler on the seat of power; and Joshua will be a priest at his right hand, and between them there will be a design of peace.

¹³ And he will be the builder of the Temple of the Lord; and the glory will be his, and he will take his place as ruler on the seat of power; and Joshua will be a priest at his right hand, and between them there will be a design of peace. ¹⁴ And the crown will be for grace to Heldai and Tobijah and Jedaiah and the son of Zephaniah, to keep their memory living in the house of the Lord. ¹⁵ And those who are far away will come and be builders in the Temple of the Lord, and it will be clear to you that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.

¹⁵ And those who are far away will come and be builders in the Temple of the Lord, and it will be clear to you that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.

⁵ Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him,

¹³ And suddenly there was with the angel a great band of spirits from heaven, giving praise to God, and saying, ¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest, and on the earth peace among men with whom he is well pleased.

¹⁹ And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days. ²⁰ The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!

²⁰ The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days! ²¹ But his words were about that holy building which was his body.

⁹ I am the door: if any man goes in through me he will have salvation, and will go in and go out, and will get food.

²³ And Jesus was walking in the Temple, in Solomon's covered way.

⁶ Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.

¹⁰ And they saw that it was the man who made requests for money at the door of the Temple, and they were full of wonder and surprise at what had taken place. ¹¹ And while he kept his hands on Peter and John, all the people came running together to the covered way which is named Solomon's, full of wonder.

⁴⁷ But Solomon was the builder of his house.

⁴⁷ But Solomon was the builder of his house. ⁴⁸ But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,

³¹ And so the church through all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was made strong; and, living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was increased greatly.

²³ And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,

¹⁹ Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

⁵ Now he who has made us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a witness of what is to come.

¹⁶ And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

²⁰ Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone, ²¹ In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord; ²² In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.

¹⁰ So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,

¹⁸ May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is,

¹² Giving praise to the Father who has given us a part in the heritage of the saints in light;

²³ If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

⁷ Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.

¹⁴ Are they not all helping spirits, who are sent out as servants to those whose heritage will be salvation?

³ And inside the second veil was the place which is named the Holy of holies;

³ And inside the second veil was the place which is named the Holy of holies; ⁴ Having a vessel of gold in it for burning perfumes, and the ark of the agreement, which was covered with gold and which had in it a pot made of gold for the manna, and Aaron's rod which put out buds, and the stones with the writing of the agreement;

¹¹ But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,

¹⁹ So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ By the new and living way which he made open for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

¹⁰ For he was looking for the strong town, whose builder and maker is God.

⁵ Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times.

²⁰ For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.

¹⁷ But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is. ¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.

¹² And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.

⁵ You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

¹¹ And I saw, and there came to my ears the sound of a great number of angels round about the high seat and the beasts and the rulers; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; ¹² Saying with a great voice, It is right to give to the Lamb who was put to death, power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing. ¹³ And to my ears came the voice of everything in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and of all things which are in them, saying, To him who is seated on the high seat, and to the Lamb, may blessing and honour and glory and power be given for ever and ever. ¹⁴ And the four beasts said, So be it. And the rulers went down on their faces and gave worship.

⁹ After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands,

² But do not take the measure of the space outside the house; because it has been given to the nations: and the holy town will be under their feet for forty-two months.

³ And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the Tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God.

¹⁶ And the town is square, as wide as it is long; and he took the measure of the town with the rod, one thousand and five hundred miles: it is equally long and wide and high. ¹⁷ And he took the measure of its wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, after the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. ¹⁸ And the building of its wall was of jasper, and the town was clear gold, clear as glass. ¹⁹ The bases of the wall of the town had ornaments of all sorts of beautiful stones. The first base was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; ²⁰ The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. ²¹ And the twelve doors were twelve pearls; every door was made of one pearl; and the street of the town was clear gold, as clear as glass.