1 Kings 6:18
The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible.
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- 1 Kgs 7:24 : 24 Under the rim all the way around it were round ornaments arranged in settings 15 feet long. The ornaments were in two rows and had been cast with“The Sea.”
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- 1 Kgs 6:14-174 verses82%
14 So Solomon finished building the temple.
15 He constructed the walls inside the temple with cedar planks; he paneled the inside with wood from the floor of the temple to the rafters of the ceiling. He covered the temple floor with boards made from the wood of evergreens.
16 He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters.
17 The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long.
- 1 Kgs 6:2-109 verses81%
2 The temple King Solomon built for the LORD was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
3 The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet wide, extending out from the front of the temple.
4 He made framed windows for the temple.
5 He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it.
6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet wide, the middle floor nine feet wide, and the third floor ten and a half feet wide. He made ledges on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls.
7 As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.
8 The entrance to the bottom level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up to the middle floor and then on up to the third floor.
9 He finished building the temple and covered it with rafters and boards made of cedar.
10 He built an extension all around the temple; it was seven and a half feet high and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams.
- 1 Kgs 6:29-368 verses81%
29 On all the walls around the temple, inside and out, he carved cherubim, palm trees, and flowers in bloom.
30 He plated the floor of the temple with gold, inside and out.
31 He made doors of olive wood at the entrance to the inner sanctuary; the pillar on each doorpost was five-sided.
32 On the two doors made of olive wood he carved cherubim, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold. He plated the cherubim and the palm trees with hammered gold.
33 In the same way he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, only with four-sided pillars.
34 He also made two doors out of wood from evergreens; each door had two folding leaves.
35 He carved cherubim, palm trees, and flowers in bloom and plated them with gold, leveled out over the carvings.
36 He built the inner courtyard with three rows of chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams.
- 1 Kgs 7:9-124 verses81%
9 All of these were built with the best stones, chiseled to the right size and cut with a saw on all sides, from the foundation to the edge of the roof and from the outside to the great courtyard.
10 The foundation was made of large valuable stones, measuring either 15 feet or 12 feet.
11 Above the foundation the best stones, chiseled to the right size, were used along with cedar.
12 Around the great courtyard were three rows of chiseled stones and one row of cedar beams, like the inner courtyard of the LORD’s temple and the hall of the palace.
- 1 Kgs 6:19-202 verses80%
19 He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the LORD could be placed there.
20 The inner sanctuary was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He plated it with gold, as well as the cedar altar.
- 2 Chr 3:5-73 verses79%
5 He paneled the main hall with boards made from evergreen trees and plated it with fine gold, decorated with palm trees and chains.
6 He decorated the temple with precious stones; the gold he used came from Parvaim.
7 He overlaid the temple’s rafters, thresholds, walls and doors with gold; he carved decorative cherubim on the walls.
- Ezek 41:16-183 verses77%
16 as well as the thresholds, narrow windows and galleries all around on three sides facing the threshold were paneled with wood all around, from the ground up to the windows(now the windows were covered),
17 to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement.
18 It was made with cherubim and decorative palm trees, with a palm tree between each cherub. Each cherub had two faces:
- 1 Kgs 7:2-32 verses76%
2 He named it“The Palace of the Lebanon Forest”; it was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars.
3 The roof above the beams supported by the pillars was also made of cedar; there were forty-five beams, fifteen per row.
- Ezek 41:25-262 verses74%
25 On the doors of the outer sanctuary were carved cherubim and palm trees, like those carved on the walls, and there was a canopy of wood on the front of the outside porch.
26 There were narrow windows and decorative palm trees on either side of the side walls of the porch; this is what the side chambers of the temple and the canopies were like.
- 1 Kgs 7:6-72 verses74%
6 He made a colonnade 75 feet long and 45 feet wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch.
7 He also made a throne room, called“The Hall of Judgment,” where he made judicial decisions. It was paneled with cedar from the floor to the rafters.
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20 from the ground to the area above the entrance, cherubim and decorative palm trees were carved on the wall of the outer sanctuary.
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4 and more cedar logs than could be counted.(The Sidonians and Tyrians had brought a large amount of cedar logs to David.)
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17 the cedars are the beams of our bedroom chamber; the pines are the rafters of our bedroom.
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23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood; each stood 15 feet high.
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9 to supply me with large quantities of timber, for I am building a great, magnificent temple.
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8 I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick of 10½ feet high.
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6 including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work.
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11 King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons. They built a palace for David.
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6 Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel,‘Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?’”’
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4 with three layers of large stones and one layer of timber. The expense is to be subsidized by the royal treasury.
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18 Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, along with men from Byblos, did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple.