1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Jehovah.
2 And the house that king Solomon built for Jehovah was sixty cubits in length, and twenty in breadth, and thirty cubits in height.
3 And the porch, in front of the temple of the house, was twenty cubits in length, in front of the house broadways, {and} ten cubits was its breadth, in front of the house.
4 And for the house he made closed windows with fixed lattices.
5 And against the wall of the house he built floors round about, {against} the walls of the house, round about the temple and the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.
6 The lowest floor was five cubits broad, and the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for in the {thickness of the wall of} the house he made resets round about outside, that nothing should be fastened in the walls of the house.
7 And the house, when it was being built, was built of stone entirely made ready before it was brought thither; so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was being built.
8 The entrance to the side-chambers of the middle {floor} was in the right side of the house; and they went up by winding stairs into the middle {floor}, and out of the middle into the third.
9 And he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
10 And he built the floors against all the house, five cubits high; and they held to the house by the timbers of cedar.
11 And the word of Jehovah came to Solomon saying,
12 As to this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and practise mine ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them, then will I perform my word as to thee which I spoke unto David thy father;
13 and I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
14 And Solomon built the house and finished it.
15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the walls of the roof; he overlaid {them} on the inside with wood, and overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress.
16 And he built twenty cubits of the innermost part of the house, both floor and walls, with boards of cedar; and he built {them} for it within, to {be} the oracle, the most holy place.
17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits {long}.
18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with colocynths and half-open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
19 And he prepared the oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.
20 And the oracle within was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he overlaid the cedar-wood altar-
21 and Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold, and shut off the oracle in front with chains of gold, and overlaid it with gold.
22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, the whole house entirely; also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.
23 And he made in the oracle two cherubim of olive-wood, ten cubits high;
24 and one wing of the cherub was five cubits, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub, ten cubits from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing;
25 and the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.
26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so of the other cherub.
27 And he set the cherubim in the midst of the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one touched the wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched, wing to wing, in the midst of the house.
28 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved sculptures of cherubim, and palm-trees, and half-open flowers, within and without.
30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
31 And for the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive-wood: the lintel {and} side posts were the fifth part {of the breadth of the house}.
32 The two doors were of olive-wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, and palm-trees and half-open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm-trees.
33 And he also made for the doorway of the temple posts of olive-wood, of the fourth part {of the breadth of the house}.
34 And the two folding-doors were of cypress-wood: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
35 And he carved on them cherubim, and palm-trees, and half-open flowers; and overlaid them with gold fitted on the carved work.
36 And he built the inner court of three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar-beams.
37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Jehovah laid, in the month Zif;
38 and in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished in all its parts, and according to all the fashion of it. So he was seven years in building it.
1 No ano quatrocentos e oitenta depois da saída dos filhos de Israel do Egito, Salomão, no quarto ano do seu reinado, no mês de Ziv, que é o segundo mês, empreendeu a construção do templo do Senhor.
2 O templo que o rei Salomão edificou ao Senhor tinha sessenta côvados de comprimento, vinte de largura e trinta de altura.
3 O pórtico, à entrada do templo, tinha vinte côvados de comprimento, o que igualava a largura do templo, e dez côvados de largura na frente do edifício.
4 O rei fez no templo janelas com grades de madeira.
5 Construiu, encostados às paredes do edifício, andares que rodeavam o templo e o santuário. Cercou assim o edifício de quartos laterais.
6 O andar inferior tinha cinco côvados de largura, o do meio seis e o terceiro sete, porque se tinham posto encostas nos muros exteriores do templo para evitar que as vigas entrassem nas paredes do edifício.
7 Na construção do templo só se empregaram pedras lavradas na pedreira, de sorte que não se ouvia durante os trabalhos da construção barulho algum de martelo, de cinzel ou de outro qualquer instrumento de ferro.
8 A entrada do andar inferior encontrava-se do lado direito do edifício. Subia-se por uma escada em espiral ao andar do meio, e deste ao terceiro.
9 Terminado o edifício, Salomão recobriu-o de tábuas e de forros de cedro.
10 Os andares que construiu encostados em todo o edifício eram de cinco côvados de altura cada um e foram ligados ao templo por traves de cedro.
11 A palavra do Senhor foi então dirigida a Salomão nestes termos:
12 Esta casa que tu edificas... se obedeceres às minhas leis, praticares os meus mandamentos e observares todos os meus preceitos, seguindo-os cuidadosamente, eu cumprirei em ti as promessas que fiz ao teu pai Davi:
13 permanecerei no meio dos israelitas e não abandonarei Israel, meu povo.
14 Salomão terminou a construção do templo.
15 Forrou o interior das paredes do edifício com placas de cedro, desde o pavimento até o teto; revestiu assim de madeira todo o interior e cobriu o pavimento com tábuas de cipreste.
16 Revestiu de tábuas de cedro, a partir do fundo do templo, desde o pavimento até o teto, um espaço de vinte côvados, que destinou ao santuário, ou santo dos santos.
17 Os quarenta côvados restantes constituíam a parte anterior do templo.
18 Dentro do edifício o cedro era esculpido de coloquíntidas e flores abertas; tudo era de cedro; não se via a pedra.
19 Salomão dispôs o santuário no interior do templo, bem ao fundo, para ali colocar a arca da aliança do Senhor.
20 O santuário tinha por dentro vinte côvados de comprimento, vinte de largura e vinte de altura. Salomão revestiu-o de ouro fino, e cobriu o altar de cedro.
21 Revestiu de ouro fino o interior do edifício e fechou com cadeias de ouro a frente do santuário, que era também revestido de ouro.
22 A casa ficou assim inteiramente coberta de ouro, como também toda a superfície do altar que estava diante do santuário.
23 Fez no santuário dois querubins de pau de oliveira, que tinham dez côvados de altura.
24 Cada uma das asas dos querubins tinha cinco côvados, o que fazia dez côvados da extremidade de uma asa à extremidade da outra.
25 O segundo querubim tinha também dez côvados; os dois tinham a mesma forma e as mesmas dimensões.
26 Um e outro tinham dez côvados de altura.
27 Salomão pô-los no fundo do templo, no santuário. Tinham as asas estendidas, de sorte que uma asa do primeiro tocava uma das paredes e uma asa do segundo tocava a outra parede, enquanto as outras duas asas se encontravam no meio do santuário.
28 Revestiu também de ouro os querubins.
29 Mandou esculpir em relevo em todas as paredes da casa, ao redor, no santuário como no templo, querubins, palmas e flores abertas.
30 Cobriu de ouro o pavimento do edifício, tanto o do santuário como o do templo.
31 Pôs à porta do santuário vigas de pau de oliveira; o seu enquadramento com as ombreiras ocupava a quinta parte da parede.
32 Nos dois batentes de pau de oliveira mandou esculpir querubins, palmas e flores desabrochadas, e cobriu-as de ouro; cobriu de ouro tanto os querubins como as palmas.
33 Para a porta do templo fez vigas de pau de oliveira que ocupavam a quarta parte da parede,
34 bem como dois batentes de madeira de cipreste, sendo cada batente formado de duas folhas móveis.
35 Mandou esculpir nelas querubins, palmas e flores desabrochadas, e cobriu tudo de ouro, ajustado às esculturas.
36 Construiu, ao redor do átrio interior, um muro de três ordens de pedras talhadas e uma fileira de traves de cedro.
37 No mês de Ziv do quarto ano de reinado, foram lançados os fundamentos do templo do Senhor,
38 e no ano undécimo, no mês de Bul, que é o oitavo mês, foi o templo acabado em todas as suas partes e em todos os seus pormenores. O templo foi construído em sete anos.