1 Kings 6 Cross References - LITV

¹ And it happened in the four hundred and eightieth year from the exodus of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year, in the month of Zif, it is the second month, in the reigning of Solomon over Israel he built the house for Jehovah. ² As to the house that king Solomon built for Jehovah, its length was sixty cubits, its breadth twenty, and its height thirty cubits. ³ As to the porch on the front of the temple of the house, its length was twenty cubits according to the breadth of the house; its breadth on the front of the house was ten cubits. ⁴ And he made windows of narrowing frames for the house. ⁵ And he built a side-structure on the wall of the house all around, against the walls of the house all around; to the temple and to the sanctuary. And he made side sections all around. ⁶ The lowest side-structure was five cubits wide; and the middle was six cubits wide; and the third story side-structure was seven cubits wide. For outside of the house he made narrowed ledges for the house all around, so as not to lay hold of the walls of the house. ⁷ And when it was being built, the house was built of finished stone made ready beforehand. And there was not heard in the house a hammer or an axe, or any iron tool, while it was being built. ⁸ The door for the middle side section was in the right side of the house. And they went up with winding stairs into the middle one; and from the middle one into the third. ⁹ And he built the house and finished it, and covered the house with beams and rows of cedars. ¹⁰ And he built the side-stories on all the house, each five cubits in height; and they held to the house with timbers of cedar. ¹¹ And the word of Jehovah came to Solomon, saying, ¹² As to this house that you are building, if you shall walk in My statutes, and shall do My judgments, and shall do all My commandments, to walk in them, then I shall establish your word with you which I spoke to your father David. ¹³ And I shall dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel, and shall not forsake My people Israel. ¹⁴ And Solomon built the house, and finished it. ¹⁵ And he built the walls of the house inside with beams of cedar, from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling. He overlaid the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with boards of fir. ¹⁶ And he built the twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar, from the floor to the walls. And he built for it inside, for the sanctuary, for the Holy of Holies. ¹⁷ And the house was forty cubits, that is, the temple before it . ¹⁸ And the cedar for the house inside was with carvings of gourds and flowers spread out; the whole was cedar; not a stone was seen. ¹⁹ And he prepared the Holy of Holies in the middle of the house, to place the ark of the covenant of Jehovah there. ²⁰ And the face of the Holy of Holies was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in height. And he overlaid it with refined gold, and overlaid the altar with cedar. ²¹ And Solomon overlaid the house inside with refined gold, and caused it to pass over in chains of gold to the face of the Holy of Holies, and overlaid it with gold. ²² And he overlaid all of the house with gold, until all of the house was complete. And he overlaid with gold all of the altar that belonged to the Holy of Holies. ²³ And inside the Holy of Holies he made two cherubs of the olive tree; their height was ten cubits. ²⁴ And one wing of the cherub was five cubits; and the second wing of the cherub five cubits; ten cubits from the ends of its wings even to the ends of its wings. ²⁵ And the second cherub was ten cubits; one measure and one form to the two cherubs. ²⁶ The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the second cherub. ²⁷ And he set the cherubs in the middle of the inner house. And they spread out the wings of the cherubs. And the wing of the one touched the wall; and the wing of the second touched the second wall; and their wings were to the middle of the house, coming wing against wing. ²⁸ And he overlaid the cherubs with gold. ²⁹ And all the walls of the house all around he carved with figures of cherubs and palm trees, and spread out flowers inside and out. ³⁰ And he overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inside and out. ³¹ As to the entrance of the Holy of Holies, he made doors of the olive tree; the lintel, the side posts, being a fifty part. ³² And the two doors were of olive wood. And he carved on them carvings of cherubs, and palm trees, and spread out flowers; and he overlaid them with gold. And he caused the gold to go down on the cherubs and on the palm trees. ³³ So also he made side post for the entrance of the temple from the olive tree, a fourth part. ³⁴ And the two doors were of fir wood; the two sides of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. ³⁵ And he carved cherubs, and palm trees, and spread out flowers, and overlaid them with gold fitted on the carved work. ³⁶ And he built the inner court, three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams. ³⁷ The house of Jehovah was founded in the fourth year, in the month of Zif. ³⁸ And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, the eighth month, the house was finished as to all its parts, and according to all its plans. So he built it for seven years.

¹ And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the tabernacle of the congregation on the first of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

²⁶ When Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and in its towns, in all the cities by the sides of Arnon three hundred years, then why have you not delivered them in that time?

³⁷ The house of Jehovah was founded in the fourth year, in the month of Zif.

¹⁹ and give a perfect heart to my son Solomon, to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies, and Your statutes, and to do all, even to build this magnificent house, for which I have prepared.

¹ And Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, in Mount Moriah, where He appeared to his father David, in the place that David had prepared, in the grain floor of Ornan the Jebusite; ² And he began to build on the second, in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

¹² And speak to him, saying, So says Jehovah of hosts, saying, Behold! The Man whose name is THE BRANCH! And He shall spring up out of His place, and He shall build the temple of Jehovah. ¹³ Even He shall build the temple of Jehovah; and He shall bear the majesty, and shall sit and rule on His throne. And He shall be a priest on His throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between the two of them.

¹⁵ And the distant ones shall come and build in the temple of Jehovah. And you shall know that Jehovah of hosts has sent me to you. And this shall be, if you will diligently obey the voice of Jehovah your God.

¹⁹ Jesus said to them, Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up. ²⁰ Then the Jews said, This sanctuary was forty six years being built, and do you raise it up in three days? ²¹ But He spoke about the sanctuary of His body.

⁴⁷ but Solomon built Him a house.

¹⁹ Or do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which you have from God, and you are not of yourselves?

¹⁶ And what agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God, even as God said, "I will" dwell in them and "walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people." Lev. 26:12; Ezek. 37:27

²⁰ being built up on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the cornerstone, ²¹ in whom every building having been fitted together grows into a holy sanctuary in the Lord, ²² in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

⁷ having been rooted and built up in Him, and having been confirmed in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

¹¹ But Christ having appeared as a High Priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

¹⁰ for he looked forward to a city having the foundations of which the builder and maker is God.

⁵ you also as living stones are being built a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

³ In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king placed a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: let the house be built, the place where they offered sacrifices and let the foundations of it be strongly laid. Its height shall be sixty cubits; its breadth sixty cubits; ⁴ with three layers of rolling stones, and a layer of new timber. And let the expenses be given out of the king's house.

¹ In the twenty fifth year of our exile, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck, on that same day the hand of Jehovah was on me, and He brought me there. ² In the visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and made me rest on a very high mountain. And it was as the structure of a city on the south. ³ And He brought me there; and, behold, a man whose appearance was as the appearance of bronze, and a line of flax and a measuring reed in his hand. And he stood in the gate. ⁴ And the man said to me, Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you. For in order to show you, you are brought here. Declare to the house of Israel all that you see. ⁵ And, behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around. And a measuring reed was in the man's hand, six cubits, with a cubit and a span. So he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. ⁶ And he came to the gate which faced eastward, and he went up its steps and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide, even the one threshold, one reed wide. ⁷ And a room, one reed long and one reed wide, and between the rooms were five cubits. And the threshold of the gate from beside the porch of the gate, from the house, was one reed. ⁸ And he measured the porch of the gate from the house, one reed. ⁹ And he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its pillars, two cubits, also the porch of the gate from the house. ¹⁰ And the gate rooms eastward were three from here, and three from there, one measure to the three of them; and one measure was to the pillars, from here and from there. ¹¹ And he measured the breadth of the gate opening, ten cubits; the length of the gate was thirteen cubits. ¹² And the border in front of the rooms was one cubit; and the border from here, one cubit. And the room was six cubits from here, and six cubits from there. ¹³ And he measured the gate of the room from roof to roof, twenty five cubits wide, door to door. ¹⁴ He also made the pillars, sixty cubits, even to the court pillar, from the gate all around. ¹⁵ And on the face of the entrance gate, to the face of the porch of the inner gate, was fifty cubits; ¹⁶ and latticed windows were to the rooms and to their pillars inside the gate all around; and so for the porches; and windows were all around inside; and to a pillar were palm trees. ¹⁷ And he brought me into the outer court. And, behold, rooms, and a pavement made for the court all around. Thirty rooms were on the pavement. ¹⁸ And the pavement by the side of the gates to equal the length of the gates was the lower pavement. ¹⁹ And he measured the breadth from the face of the lower gate to the face of the inner court, on the outside, a hundred cubits eastward and northward. ²⁰ And the gate which faces the way of the north of the outer court, he measured its length and its breadth. ²¹ And its rooms were three from here, and three from there. And its pillars and its porches were as the first measure: its length was fifty cubits and its breadth twenty five cubits. ²² And its windows, and its porches, and its palm trees were as the measure of the gate that faces eastward. And they went up to it by seven steps, and its porches were before them. ²³ And the gate of the inner court was across from the gate toward the north and toward the east. And he measured from gate to gate, a hundred cubits. ²⁴ And he led me southward. And behold, a gate southward! And he measured its pillars and its porches according to these measures. ²⁵ And windows were in it, and its porches all around like these windows. Fifty cubits were the length, and twenty five cubits the breadth. ²⁶ And seven steps were going up to it, and its porches were before them. And palm trees were to it, one from here and one from there, to its pillars. ²⁷ And a gate was to the inner court southward. And he measured from gate to gate, southward, a hundred cubits. ²⁸ And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. And he measured the south gate by these measures. ²⁹ And its rooms, and its pillars, and its porches were as three measures. And windows were to it, and its porches all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty five cubits wide. ³⁰ And the porches all around were twenty five cubits long and five cubits wide. ³¹ And its porches were toward the outer court, and palm trees on its pillars. And its stairway had eight steps. ³² And he brought me into the inner court eastward. And he measured the gate by these measures. ³³ And its rooms, and its pillars, and its porches were as these measures. And windows were to it and to its porches all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty five cubits wide. ³⁴ And its porches were toward the outer court. And palm trees were on its pillars from here and from there. And its stairway had eight steps. ³⁵ And he brought me to the north gate and measured by these measures, ³⁶ its rooms, its posts, and its porches. And windows were to it all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty five cubits wide. ³⁷ And its pillars were toward the outer court. And palm trees were on its pillars from here and from there; and its stairway had eight steps. ³⁸ And the room and its door was by the pillars of the gates; they washed the burnt offering there. ³⁹ And in the porch of the gate were two tables from here, and two tables from there, to slaughter the burnt offering on them, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering. ⁴⁰ And to the side outside, as one goes up to the door of the gate northward were two tables. And on the other side at the porch of the gate were two tables. ⁴¹ Four tables were from here, and four tables from there, by the side of the gate, eight tables. They slaughter on them.

¹ And he brought me to the temple and measured the pillars, six cubits wide from here, and six cubits wide from there, the width of the tent. ² And the door was ten cubits wide. And the sides of the door were five cubits from here and five cubits from there. And he measured its length, forty cubits, and twenty cubits wide. ³ And he went inside and measured the pillars of the door, two cubits. And the door was six cubits, and the width of the door, seven cubits. ⁴ And he measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, to the face of the temple. And he said to me, This is the Holy of Holies. ⁵ And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits, and the width of each side room was four cubits all around the house. ⁶ And the side rooms were a side room over a side room, three stories, and thirty times. And they entered the wall of the house for the side rooms all around, that they may be fastened. But they were not fastened in the wall of the house. ⁷ And there was a widening and a winding upwards and upwards for the side rooms, for the winding around of the house went upward and upward, all around the house. On account of this the width of the house went up, and so from the lowest it went up to the highest by the middle story . ⁸ I also saw the height of the house all around, the foundations of the side rooms were a full reed, six cubits by joining. ⁹ The width of the wall which was for the side room to the outside was five cubits, and that which was left between the side rooms that were of the house. ¹⁰ And between the rooms was the width of twenty cubits circling the house all around. ¹¹ And the door of the side room was toward the open space, one door northward, and one door southward. And the width of the place of the open space was five cubits all around. ¹² And the building that was before the separate area at the end of the way of the west was seventy cubits wide. And the wall of the building was five cubits wide all around; and its length, ninety cubits. ¹³ And he measured the house, a hundred cubits long. And the separate area and the building and its wall were a hundred cubits long. ¹⁴ And the width of the face of the house, and the separate area toward the east, a hundred cubits. ¹⁵ And he measured the length of the building to the face of the separate area which was on its rear; and its gallery from here and from there was a hundred cubits, also the inner temple, and the porches of the court,

¹⁶ And the city lies four cornered, even its length as much as the width also. And he measured the city with the reed at twelve thousand stadia; its length and width and height are equal. ¹⁷ And he measured its wall, a hundred and forty four cubits, a measure of a man, which is of an angel.

¹¹ And David gave his son Solomon the pattern of the porch, and of its houses, and of its treasuries, and of its upper rooms, and of its innermost rooms, and of the house of the mercy-seat;

³ And these are the foundations Solomon laid, to build the house of God: the length by cubits according to the ancient measure, sixty cubits; and the breadth twenty cubits. ⁴ As to the porch on the front, the length, according to the breadth of the house in front, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it inside with pure gold.

¹⁵ And he measured the length of the building to the face of the separate area which was on its rear; and its gallery from here and from there was a hundred cubits, also the inner temple, and the porches of the court,

⁵ Then the Devil takes Him to the holy city, and he set Him on the wing of the temple.

²³ And Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's Porch.

¹⁰ And they recognized him, that it was the one who was sitting for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. And they were filled with amazement and ecstasy at the thing that happened to him. ¹¹ And the healed lame one was holding to Peter and John, and all the people ran together to them on the porch called Solomon's, greatly amazed.

⁹ My Beloved is likened to a gazelle, or to a young deer, the stag. Behold, He stands behind our wall, looking from the windows, peering from the lattice.

¹⁶ and latticed windows were to the rooms and to their pillars inside the gate all around; and so for the porches; and windows were all around inside; and to a pillar were palm trees.

¹⁶ the thresholds, and the latticed windows, and the galleries all around, their three stories opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered

²⁶ And latticed windows and palm trees were from here and from there on the sides of the porch, and the side rooms of the house, and wooden canopies .

²² And I will meet you there, and will speak with you, above the mercyseat, from between the two cherubs which are on the ark of testimony, all which I shall command you concerning the sons of Israel.

² And Jehovah said to Moses, Speak to your brother Aaron, and he shall not come in at all times to the sanctuary within the veil, to the front of the mercy-seat.

⁸⁹ And when Moses went into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with Him, he heard the voice speaking to him from the mercy-seat which is on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubs; and He spoke to him.

¹⁶ And he built the twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar, from the floor to the walls. And he built for it inside, for the sanctuary, for the Holy of Holies.

¹⁹ And he prepared the Holy of Holies in the middle of the house, to place the ark of the covenant of Jehovah there. ²⁰ And the face of the Holy of Holies was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in height. And he overlaid it with refined gold, and overlaid the altar with cedar. ²¹ And Solomon overlaid the house inside with refined gold, and caused it to pass over in chains of gold to the face of the Holy of Holies, and overlaid it with gold.

³¹ As to the entrance of the Holy of Holies, he made doors of the olive tree; the lintel, the side posts, being a fifty part.

²⁶ For they were in faithfulness, the four chiefs of the gatekeepers; they were Levites and were over the rooms, and over the treasuries of the house of God.

²⁸ because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of Jehovah, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of God's house,

²⁰ and the lampstands, and their lamps, for their burning was according to the ordinance, before the holy place, of refined gold;

⁷ And the priest brought in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah to its place, to the sanctuary of the house, to the Holy of Holies, to the place of the wings of the cherubs;

⁹ and so long were the staves, that the heads of the staves could be seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen outside. And there it is to this day.

¹¹ And Hezekiah ordered them to build rooms in the house of Jehovah; and they prepared,

³⁷ And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all kinds of trees, of wine, and of oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; and they, the Levites, might have the tithes in all the cities we worked.

⁴⁴ And at that time some were chosen over the rooms for the treasuries, for the offerings for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather to them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the Law for the priests and the Levites. For Judah rejoiced for the priests, and for the Levites who waited.

⁵ (and he had prepared for himself a large room where they had in days past laid the food offering, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers, and the offerings of the priests). ⁶ But in all this time I was not at Jerusalem. For in the thirty second year of Artaxerxes the king of Babylon, I came to the king. And after some days I asked leave from the king. ⁷ And I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil which Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing a room for him in the courts of the house of God. ⁸ And it grieved me very much. And I threw all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the room. ⁹ Then I commanded, and they purified the rooms. And I returned there the vessels of the house of God, with the food offering and the frankincense.

² Hear the voice of my prayers in my crying to You, when I lift my hands toward Your Holy of Holies.

⁴ Draw me; we will run after You. The King has brought me into His chambers. We will be glad and rejoice in You; we will remember Your loves more than wine; the upright love You.

⁴ And I brought them into the house of Jehovah, into the room of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was near the room of the rulers, above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.

⁴⁴ And from the outside to the inner court were the singers' rooms in the inner court beside the north gate. And their face was southward, the one beside the east gate looked the way of the north.

⁵ And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits, and the width of each side room was four cubits all around the house. ⁶ And the side rooms were a side room over a side room, three stories, and thirty times. And they entered the wall of the house for the side rooms all around, that they may be fastened. But they were not fastened in the wall of the house. ⁷ And there was a widening and a winding upwards and upwards for the side rooms, for the winding around of the house went upward and upward, all around the house. On account of this the width of the house went up, and so from the lowest it went up to the highest by the middle story . ⁸ I also saw the height of the house all around, the foundations of the side rooms were a full reed, six cubits by joining. ⁹ The width of the wall which was for the side room to the outside was five cubits, and that which was left between the side rooms that were of the house. ¹⁰ And between the rooms was the width of twenty cubits circling the house all around. ¹¹ And the door of the side room was toward the open space, one door northward, and one door southward. And the width of the place of the open space was five cubits all around.

³ Across from the twenty cubits which were to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which was to the outer court, was gallery on the face of gallery, in three stories. ⁴ And before the rooms was a walk ten cubits wide, to the inside, a way of one cubit. And their doors were toward the north. ⁵ And the upper rooms were shorter, for the galleries used up more space than the lower and middle ones in the building. ⁶ For they were in three stories, and there were no columns to them like the columns of the courts. So the third was made narrower than the lower and middle stories from the ground. ⁷ And the wall that was outside near the rooms the way of the outer court, on the face of the rooms, its length was fifty cubits. ⁸ For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. And, behold, in the face of the temple was a hundred cubits. ⁹ And under these rooms was the entrance on the east side as one goes into them from the outer court. ¹⁰ In the width of the wall of the court eastward, to the face of the separate area, and to the face of the building were rooms. ¹¹ And the way before them looked like the rooms which were northward, as their length, so their width. And all their exits were as their patterns and as their doors. ¹² And as the doors of the rooms that were southward, there was a door in the head of the way, the way directly in the face of the wall, the way of the east, as one enters them.

²⁵ And if you make an altar of stone for Me, you shall not build them of cut stones. When you swing your tool on it, you defile it.

⁵ And you shall build an altar there to Jehovah your God, an altar of stones; you shall not wield any iron tool on them; ⁶ You shall build the altar of Jehovah your God of uncut stones. And you shall offer burnt offerings on it to Jehovah your God.

¹⁷ And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, quarried stones, to lay the foundation of the house. ¹⁸ And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders, and the Giblites, cut and prepared the wood and the stones to build the house.

²⁷ Prepare your work outside, and make it fit for yourself in the field, and afterwards build your house.

² He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.

³¹ Then, indeed, the churches throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace, having been built up and having gone on in the fear of the Lord. And they were increased in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

²³ and that He make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy which He before prepared for glory,

⁵ And He having worked in us for this same thing is God, who also is giving us the earnest of the Spirit.

¹² giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for a share of the inheritance of the saints in light,

²⁰ For the wrath of man does not work out the righteousness of God.

¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is firstly truly pure, then peaceable, forbearing, yielding, full of mercy and of good fruits, not partial and not pretended. ¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for the ones making peace.

⁶ And the side rooms were a side room over a side room, three stories, and thirty times. And they entered the wall of the house for the side rooms all around, that they may be fastened. But they were not fastened in the wall of the house. ⁷ And there was a widening and a winding upwards and upwards for the side rooms, for the winding around of the house went upward and upward, all around the house. On account of this the width of the house went up, and so from the lowest it went up to the highest by the middle story .

¹⁴ And Solomon built the house, and finished it.

³⁸ And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, the eighth month, the house was finished as to all its parts, and according to all its plans. So he built it for seven years.

¹⁴ If you will fear Jehovah and serve Him, and listen to His voice, and do not rebel against the mouth of Jehovah, then you, both you and also the king who reigns over you, shall follow Jehovah your God. ¹⁵ But if you will not listen to the voice of Jehovah, and you rebel against the mouth of Jehovah, then the hand of Jehovah shall be against you and against your fathers.

¹² When your days are fulfilled, and you lie with your fathers, then I shall raise up your seed after you, who shall come out from your bowels, and I shall establish his kingdom. ¹³ He shall build a house for My Name, and I shall establish the throne of his kingdom forever. ¹⁴ I shall be a father to him, and he shall be a son to Me. When he sins, then I will chasten him with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of men. ¹⁵ But My mercy shall not be taken from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. ¹⁶ And your house shall be established, and your kingdom before you forever. Your throne shall be established forever.

³ and keep the charge of Jehovah your God, to walk in His ways, to keep statutes, His commands, and His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, so that you may do wisely all that you do, and there wherever you may turn, ⁴ so that Jehovah may establish His word which He spoke to me, saying, If your sons take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul, saying, There shall not be a man to you cut off from the throne of Israel.

¹⁴ And if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commands, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days.

²⁵ And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, keep for Your servant David, my father, that which You spoke to him, saying, There shall not be cut off from you a man from before Me, sitting on the throne of Israel; only, if your sons watch their way, to walk before Me as you have walked before Me.

³ And Jehovah said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication with which you have made supplication before Me; I have sanctified this house that you have built to put My name there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there forever. ⁴ And you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, in singleness of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you; you shall keep My statutes and My judgments; ⁵ then I shall establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I spoke to your father David, saying, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel. ⁶ If you at all turn back, you and your sons, from following me, and do not keep My commands, My statutes which I have set before you, and you shall go and serve other gods and bow yourselves to them,

¹⁰ he shall build a house to My name, and he shall be a son to Me, and I a Father to him; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.

⁹ And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind. For Jehovah searches out all hearts, and He understands every imagination of thoughts. If you shall seek Him, He shall be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

¹⁷ And you, if you shall walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and shall keep My statutes and My judgments, ¹⁸ then I shall establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with your father David, saying, There shall not be cut off a man to you who rules in Israel;

¹² If your sons will keep My covenant and My testimonies which I will teach them, their sons shall also sit on your throne till forever.

⁷ So says Jehovah of hosts: If you will walk in My ways, and if you will keep My charge, then you shall also judge My house, and shall also keep My courts, and I will give you room to walk among these who stand by.

²³ if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled and not being moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.

⁸ And let them make a sanctuary for Me, that I may dwell in their midst.

¹¹ And I will set My tabernacle in your midst, and My soul shall not loathe you;

⁶ Be strong and brave. Do not fear them, or be afraid of them. For Jehovah your God is He who is going with you; He shall not fail you nor forsake you.

⁸ And Jehovah is He who is going before you; He Himself shall be with you; He shall not fail you nor forsake you. Do not fear nor be afraid.

⁵ No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor will I forsake you.

²² For Jehovah will not abandon His people, for the sake of His great name. For Jehovah undertakes to make you a people for Himself.

²⁷ But will God in truth dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens and the heavens of the heavens cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built!

²⁰ And David said to his son Solomon, Be strong and brave, and act. Do not fear, nor be afraid, for Jehovah God, my God, shall be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you until you have finished all the work of the service of the house of Jehovah.

¹⁸ You have gone up on high; You have led captivity captive; You have received gifts among men; yea, to dwell among the rebellious, O Jehovah God.

¹² If your sons will keep My covenant and My testimonies which I will teach them, their sons shall also sit on your throne till forever. ¹³ Jehovah has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling-place.

¹⁵ For so says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, and His name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, even with the contrite and humble of spirit; to make live the spirit of the humble and to make live the heart of the contrite ones.

²⁶ And I will cut a covenant of peace with them, an everlasting covenant it shall be with them, And I will place them and multiply them, and I will put My sanctuary in their midst forever. ²⁷ And My tabernacle shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. ²⁸ And when My sanctuary shall be in their midst forever, the nations shall know that I, Jehovah, sanctify Israel.

⁵ Set your way of life without money-loving, being satisfied with present things; for He has said, "Not at all will I leave you, not at all will I forsake you," never! Deut. 31:6

³ And I heard a great voice out of Heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God with men! And He will tabernacle with them, and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.

⁹ And he built the house and finished it, and covered the house with beams and rows of cedars.

⁴⁷ but Solomon built Him a house. ⁴⁸ But the Most High does not dwell in temples made by hand, as the prophet says,

⁷ And he made the porch of the throne where he judged, the porch of judgment. And it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.

²¹ And you shall put the mercyseat on the ark from above. And you shall put the testimony into the ark, which I shall give to you. ²² And I will meet you there, and will speak with you, above the mercyseat, from between the two cherubs which are on the ark of testimony, all which I shall command you concerning the sons of Israel.

²³ And you shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle, in the sides.

³³ And you shall hang the veil under the hooks. And you shall bring the ark of the testimony there inside to the veil. And the veil shall divide for you between the sanctuary and the Holy of Holies. ³⁴ And you shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony, in the Holy of Holies.

⁵ And he built a side-structure on the wall of the house all around, against the walls of the house all around; to the temple and to the sanctuary. And he made side sections all around.

¹⁹ And he prepared the Holy of Holies in the middle of the house, to place the ark of the covenant of Jehovah there. ²⁰ And the face of the Holy of Holies was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in height. And he overlaid it with refined gold, and overlaid the altar with cedar.

⁶ And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah to its place, to the holy place of the house, into the Holy of Holies, to the place of the wings of the cherubs;

⁸ And he built the Most Holy Place its length was by the front, of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits; and he covered it with fine gold, to six hundred talents;

³ And from this measure you shall measure the length, twenty five thousand cubits, and the width, ten thousand. And in it shall be the sanctuary, the holiest of the holy.

³ But behind the second veil is a tabernacle, that called Holy of Holies,

²⁴ And gourds were below its brim all around, going around it, ten by the cubit, circling the sea all around; the gourds were cast in two rows when it was cast.

²⁰ And he took and gave the testimony into the ark. And he put the poles on the ark. And he gave the mercyseat on the ark from above. ²¹ And he caused the ark to go in into the tabernacle. And he placed the veil of the covering, and he covered over the ark of testimony, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

⁶ And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah to its place, to the holy place of the house, into the Holy of Holies, to the place of the wings of the cherubs; ⁷ for the cherubs were spreading forth their wings to the place of the ark, and the cherubs covered over the ark, and over its staves from above. ⁸ And they lengthened the staves, and the heads of the staves were seen from the holy place on the front of the Holy of Holies, and were not seen outside; and they are there to this day. ⁹ Nothing was in the ark, only the two tables of stone which Moses put there in Horeb, when Jehovah cut a covenant with the sons of Israel as they went out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁰ And it happened as the priests went out from the Holy of Holies, that the cloud filled the house of Jehovah,

³ But behind the second veil is a tabernacle, that called Holy of Holies, ⁴ having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant covered around on all sides with gold, in which was the golden pot having the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;

¹ And you shall make an altar, a place for burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. ² It shall be a cubit in length and a cubit in width; it shall be square. And its height shall be two cubits, its horns from itself. ³ And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, and its walls all around, and its horns. And you shall make a wreath of gold for it all around.

² As to the house that king Solomon built for Jehovah, its length was sixty cubits, its breadth twenty, and its height thirty cubits. ³ As to the porch on the front of the temple of the house, its length was twenty cubits according to the breadth of the house; its breadth on the front of the house was ten cubits.

²² And he overlaid all of the house with gold, until all of the house was complete. And he overlaid with gold all of the altar that belonged to the Holy of Holies.

⁴⁸ And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Jehovah: the altar of gold; and the table of gold on which was the Bread of the Presence;

²⁹ And you shall overlay the boards with gold and you shall make their rings gold, housings for the bars. And you shall overlay the bars with gold.

³² And you shall put it on four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold, their hooks gold, on four sockets of silver. ³³ And you shall hang the veil under the hooks. And you shall bring the ark of the testimony there inside to the veil. And the veil shall divide for you between the sanctuary and the Holy of Holies.

³⁴ And he overlaid the boards with gold. And he made the rings gold, housing for the poles; and he overlaid the bars with gold.

⁷ And he covered the house, the beams, the threshold, and the walls, and its doors with gold; and engraved cherubs on the walls. ⁸ And he built the Most Holy Place its length was by the front, of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits; and he covered it with fine gold, to six hundred talents; ⁹ and the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold, and he covered the upper rooms with gold.

¹⁴ And he made the veil of violet, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and caused to go on it cherubs. ¹⁵ And at the front of the house, he made two pillars thirty five cubits high, and the capital on their tops was five cubits. ¹⁶ And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the capitals of the pillars; and made a hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains.

¹ And you shall make an altar, a place for burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.

³ And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, and its walls all around, and its horns. And you shall make a wreath of gold for it all around.

⁵ And you shall make the poles of acacia wood; and you shall overlay them with gold. ⁶ And you shall put it in front of the veil which is beside the ark of the testimony; in front of the mercyseat which is over the testimony, there where I meet you.

²⁰ And the face of the Holy of Holies was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in height. And he overlaid it with refined gold, and overlaid the altar with cedar.

⁷ And he covered the house, the beams, the threshold, and the walls, and its doors with gold; and engraved cherubs on the walls. ⁸ And he built the Most Holy Place its length was by the front, of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits; and he covered it with fine gold, to six hundred talents; ⁹ and the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold, and he covered the upper rooms with gold. ¹⁰ And in the most holy house he made two cherubs of image work, and he overlaid them with gold. ¹¹ And the wings of the cherubs, their length was twenty cubits: the wing of the one was five cubits, touching the wall of the house, and the other wing was five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherub; ¹² and the wing of the other cherub was five cubits, touching the wall of the house, and the other wing was five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherub. ¹³ The wings of these cherubs spread out twenty cubits and they were standing on their feet and their faces were inward. ¹⁴ And he made the veil of violet, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and caused to go on it cherubs.

²⁴ And He drove the man out. And He lodged the cherubs at the east of the Garden of Eden, and the flaming sword whirling around to guard the way of the Tree of Life.

¹⁸ And you shall make two cherubs of gold; you shall make them of beaten work from the two ends of the mercyseat. ¹⁹ And make one cherub from the end here, and one cherub from the end there. You shall make the cherubs from the mercyseat, on its two ends. ²⁰ And the cherubs shall be spreading out wings above, covering the mercyseat with their wings, and their faces each toward its brother; the faces of the cherubs shall be toward the mercyseat.

⁷ And he made two cherubs of gold; he made them of beaten work, from the two ends of the mercyseat; ⁸ one cherub here at one end, and one cherub here at the other end. He made the cherubs from the mercyseat, from its two ends. ⁹ And the cherubs were spreading out wings above, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, their faces each toward the other; the faces of the cherubs were toward the mercyseat.

¹⁰ And in the most holy house he made two cherubs of image work, and he overlaid them with gold. ¹¹ And the wings of the cherubs, their length was twenty cubits: the wing of the one was five cubits, touching the wall of the house, and the other wing was five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherub; ¹² and the wing of the other cherub was five cubits, touching the wall of the house, and the other wing was five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherub. ¹³ The wings of these cherubs spread out twenty cubits and they were standing on their feet and their faces were inward.

¹⁰ and He rode on a cherub, and He flew; yea He soared on the wings of the wind;

¹ To the chief musician. A Testimony. Concerning the Lilies. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You leading Joseph like a flock; shine forth, You dwelling between the cherubs.

¹⁶ O Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, who dwells between the cherubs, You are He, God, You alone to all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made the heavens and the earth.

² And He spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in among the wheels, under the cherub, and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubs, and sprinkle on the city. And he went in before me. ³ And the cherubs were standing on the right side of the house when he, the man, went in. And the cloud filled the inner court. ⁴ And the glory of Jehovah lifted up from the cherub, over the threshold of the house. And the house was filled with the cloud. And the court was full of the radiance of the glory of Jehovah. ⁵ And the sound of the wings of cherubs was heard over the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when He speaks. ⁶ And it happened, when He had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubs. Then he went and stood beside the wheels. ⁷ And one cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubs, to the fire between the cherubs. And he lifted and put it into the hands of the one clothed with linen. And he took it and went out. ⁸ And the form of a man's hand was seen under the wings of the cherubs. ⁹ And I looked, and, behold, the four wheels were beside the cherubs: one wheel beside one cherub, one wheel beside one cherub. And the look of the wheels was like the color of a stone of Tarshish. ¹⁰ And their appearance was as one, the four of them, as if the wheel were in the midst of the wheel. ¹¹ In their going on their four sides, they went. They did not turn in their going. For to the place where the head faces, after it they went. They did not turn in their going. ¹² And all their flesh, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, even their wheels which the four of them had. ¹³ As for the wheels, it was cried to them in my hearing, Whirling wheel! ¹⁴ And four faces were to each. The first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. ¹⁵ And the cherubs rose up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar. ¹⁶ And in the going of the cherubs, the wheels went beside them. And when the cherubs lifted their wings to soar from the earth, the wheels did not turn from beside them, even they. ¹⁷ When they stood still, these stood still. And when they rose up, these also lifted up. For the spirit of the living creature was in them. ¹⁸ And the glory of Jehovah went from the threshold of the house and stood over the cherubs. ¹⁹ And the cherubs lifted their wings and rose up from the earth in my sight. When they went out, the wheels also were with them. And he stood at the door of the gate of the house of Jehovah, the eastern gate And the glory of the God of Israel was over them from above. ²⁰ This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar, and I knew that they were cherubs. ²¹ Four, even four faces are to each, and four wings to each. And the form of a man's hands was under their wings. ²² And the form of their faces, they are the faces that I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances, even theirs. They each went straight forward.

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits for service, being sent out because of the ones being about to inherit salvation?

¹² To whom it was revealed that not to themselves, but to us they ministered the same things, which now were announced to you by those having preached the gospel to you in the Holy Spirit sent from Heaven; into which things angels long to bow to look.

²⁰ And the cherubs shall be spreading out wings above, covering the mercyseat with their wings, and their faces each toward its brother; the faces of the cherubs shall be toward the mercyseat.

⁹ And the cherubs were spreading out wings above, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, their faces each toward the other; the faces of the cherubs were toward the mercyseat.

⁷ for the cherubs were spreading forth their wings to the place of the ark, and the cherubs covered over the ark, and over its staves from above.

¹¹ And the wings of the cherubs, their length was twenty cubits: the wing of the one was five cubits, touching the wall of the house, and the other wing was five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherub;

⁸ and the cherubs spread out wings over the place under the ark, and the cherubs covered the ark and its staves from above;

⁸ And every wise-hearted one among the doers of the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains, twined, bleached linen, and blue, and purple, and crimson; he made them with cherubs, the work of an artisan.

¹⁸ And the cedar for the house inside was with carvings of gourds and flowers spread out; the whole was cedar; not a stone was seen.

³² And the two doors were of olive wood. And he carved on them carvings of cherubs, and palm trees, and spread out flowers; and he overlaid them with gold. And he caused the gold to go down on the cherubs and on the palm trees.

¹⁴ And he made the veil of violet, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and caused to go on it cherubs.

² And he made the molten sea of ten cubits from its brim to its brim, circular all around; and its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it all around. ³ And under it was the shape of oxen, under it and all around it for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. Two rows of oxen were cast when it was cast. ⁴ It stood on twelve oxen, three facing the north, and three facing the west, and three facing the south, and three facing the east; and the sea was upon them above, and all their hinder parts inside. ⁵ And its thickness was a handbreadth, and its lip like the work of the lip of a cup, like a lily blossom. It received and held three thousand baths.

¹² The righteous shall flourish as the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. ¹³ Those planted in the house of Jehovah, in the courts of our God, shall flourish. ¹⁴ They shall bear fruit in old age; they shall be fat and fresh, ¹⁵ to declare that Jehovah is upright, my Rock! And in Him is no evil.

²⁰ Bless Jehovah, O angels of His; mighty in strength; doing His word; listening to the voice of His word.

² Praise Him, all His angels; praise Him, all His hosts.

¹³ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, ¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, good will among men.

¹⁰ so that now to the rulers and to the authorities in the heavenlies might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,

¹¹ And I saw, and I heard a sound of many angels around the throne, and the living creatures, and the elders, and their number was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, ¹² saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb having been slain to receive the power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. ¹³ And every creature which is in Heaven, and in the earth, and underneath the earth, and the things that are on the sea, and the things in all of them, I heard saying: To Him sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing and the honor and the glory and the might forever and ever. ¹⁴ And the four living creatures said, Amen. And the twenty four elders fell down and worshiped the One living forever and ever.

⁹ After these things I saw, and behold, a great crowd which no one was able to number them, out of every nation, even tribes and peoples and tongues standing in front of the throne, and before the Lamb, having been clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.

¹¹ Afflicted one, storm tossed and not comforted! Behold, I stretch out your stones among antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires. ¹² And I will make your battlements of ruby, and your gates carbuncle stones, and all your borders pleasing stones;

¹⁷ Instead of bronze, I will bring gold; and instead of iron, I will bring silver. And instead of timber, bronze; and instead of stones, iron. And I will make your governors peace, and your exacters righteousness.

¹⁸ And the structure of its wall was jasper; and the city was pure gold, like pure glass. ¹⁹ And the foundation of the wall of the city having been adorned with every precious stone: The first foundation, 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, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, hyacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. ²¹ And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; respectively each one of the gates was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, as transparent glass.

⁹ I am the door. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in, and will go out, and will find pasture.

⁶ Jesus said to him, I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

¹⁸ that you may be given strength to grasp, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and depth and height,

¹⁹ Then, brothers, having confidence for the entering of the Holy of Holies by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ which He consecrated for us, a new and living way through the veil; that is, His flesh;

²⁹ And all the walls of the house all around he carved with figures of cherubs and palm trees, and spread out flowers inside and out.

⁸ And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard that for which you have sent to me. I will do all your will as to cedar wood and fir wood.

²³ And two doors were to the temple and the sanctuary. ²⁴ And two doors were to each of the doors, two turning doors, two for the one door, and two for the other door. ²⁵ And cherubs and palm trees were made on them, on the doors of the temple, like those made on the walls; and thick wood was on the face of the porch outside.

⁹ And you shall make the court of the tabernacle; for the south side southward, hangings for the court of twined linen, a hundred by the cubit in length, for the one side. ¹⁰ And its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty in bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver. ¹¹ And so for the north side in length, hangings a hundred in length; and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty in bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver. ¹² And the width of the west side of the court shall have fifty cubits of hangings; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. ¹³ And the width of the court for the east side eastward fifty cubits; ¹⁴ and the hangings to the side fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. ¹⁵ And to the hangings for the second side, fifteen; their pillars three, and their sockets three. ¹⁶ And for the gate of the court, a screen of twenty cubits, blue and purple and crimson, and twined linen. the work of an sockets four. ¹⁷ All the pillars of the court round about shall be banded with silver, their hooks silver, and their sockets bronze. ¹⁸ The length of the court shall be a hundred by the cubit, and the width fifty by fifty, and the height five cubits, twined linen; and heir sockets bronze. ¹⁹ As to all the vessels of the tabernacle, in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, bronze.

⁹ And he made the court. To the side of the Negeb, to the south, the curtains of the court were twined bleached linen, a hundred by the cubit. ¹⁰ Their pillars were twenty and their sockets twenty, of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver. ¹¹ And for the north side, a hundred by the cubit, their pillars were twenty and their sockets twenty, of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver. ¹² And for the west side, curtains of fifty cubits; their pillars ten and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and her bands were silver. ¹³ And for the east side eastward fifty cubits, ¹⁴ curtains of fifteen cubits to the side, their pillars three and their sockets three. ¹⁵ And for the second side on this side and on that side to the opening of the court, curtains of fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their sockets three. ¹⁶ All the curtains of the court all around were twined bleached linen . ¹⁷ And the sockets for the pillars were bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver. And the overlaying of their capitals were silver; and all the pillars of the court were banded with silver. ¹⁸ And the screen of the opening of the court was an embroiderer's work, blue and purple and crimson, and bleached twined linen, and twenty cubits long, and the height was five cubits in width; the curtains of the court joining. ¹⁹ And their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of bronze; their hooks silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their bands were silver. ²⁰ And all the pins for the tabernacle and for the court all around were bronze.

¹² And the great court all around was three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams, even for the inner court of the house of Jehovah, and for the porch of the house.

⁹ And he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court; and he overlaid their doors with bronze.

⁷ And Solomon dedicated the middle of the court that was before the house of Jehovah; for he had offered there the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings; for the bronze altar that Solomon had made was not able to contain the burnt offering, and the food offering, and the fat.

² And cast aside the outside court of the temple, and do not measure it. For it was given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city forty two months.

¹ And it happened in the four hundred and eightieth year from the exodus of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year, in the month of Zif, it is the second month, in the reigning of Solomon over Israel he built the house for Jehovah.

² And he began to build on the second, in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

¹ And Solomon built his own house for thirteen years. And he finished all his house.

⁸ Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests, and the Levites, and all they who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began. And they made to stand the Levites from a son of twenty years and over, to oversee the work of the house of Jehovah. ⁹ Then Jeshua stood up together with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, to oversee the workmen in the house of God, the sons of Henadad with their sons, and their brothers the Levites. ¹⁰ And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Jehovah, they made stand the priests in their robes with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals to praise Jehovah, according to the ordinance of David king of Israel. ¹¹ And they sang, praising and giving thanks to Jehovah, because He is good, for His mercy endures forever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised Jehovah because the foundation of the house of Jehovah was laid. ¹² But many of the priests and Levites, and heads of the fathers, the aged men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. And many shouted aloud for joy, ¹³ So that the people could not tell the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of weeping of the people. For the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

¹⁴ And the elders of the Jews were building. And they were succeeding through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built, and finished, according to the commandment of the God of Israel and according to the command of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes the king of Persia. ¹⁵ And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

⁹ The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it . And you shall know that Jehovah of hosts has sent me to you.

¹³ Even He shall build the temple of Jehovah; and He shall bear the majesty, and shall sit and rule on His throne. And He shall be a priest on His throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between the two of them. ¹⁴ And the crowns shall be for a memorial in the temple of Jehovah, to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen, the son of Zephaniah. ¹⁵ And the distant ones shall come and build in the temple of Jehovah. And you shall know that Jehovah of hosts has sent me to you. And this shall be, if you will diligently obey the voice of Jehovah your God.

²⁰ Then the Jews said, This sanctuary was forty six years being built, and do you raise it up in three days?