Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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1 King David, Solomon's father,
had already prepared a place for
the Temple. It was in Jerusalem, on
Mount Moriah, the place which
Araunah the Jebusite had used as a
threshing place. King Solomon began
the construction note
2 in the second
month of the fourth year that he was
king.
3 The Temple which King Solomon
built was 90 feet long and 30
feet wide.
4 The entrance room was
the full width of the Temple, 30 feet,
and was 180 feet high. The inside of
the room was overlaid with pure
gold.
5 The main room was paneled
with cedar and overlaid with fine
gold, in which were worked designs
of palm trees and chain patterns.
6 The king decorated the Temple
with beautiful precious stones and
with gold imported from the land of
Parvaim.
7 He used the gold to overlay
the Temple walls, the rafters, the
entryways, and the doors. On the
walls the workmen carved designs
of winged creatures. note
8 The inner
room, called the Most Holy Place,
was 30 feet long and 30 feet wide,
which was the full width of the Temple.
Twenty-five tons of gold were
used to cover the walls of the Most
Holy Place; note
9 twenty ounces of gold
were used for making nails, and the
walls of the upper rooms were also
covered with gold.
10 The king also had his workmen
make two winged creatures out of
metal, cover them with gold, and
place them in the Most Holy Place,
11
12
13 where they stood side by side
facing the entrance. Each had two
wings, each wing 7 1/2 feet long,
which were spread out so that they
touched each other in the center of
the room and reached to the wall on
either side of the room, stretching
across the full width of 30 feet. note
14 A
curtain for the Most Holy Place was
made of linen and of other material,
which was dyed blue, purple, and
red, with designs of the winged creatures
worked into it. note
The Two Bronze Columns
(1 Kings 7.15–22)
15 The king had two columns
made, each one 52 feet tall, and
placed them in front of the Temple.
Each one had a capital 7 1/2 feet tall.
16 The tops of the columns were
decorated with a design of interwoven
chains and one hundred
bronze pomegranates. note
17 The columns
were set at the sides of the
Temple entrance: the one on the
south side was named Jachin note and
the one on the north side was named
Boaz. note
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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