1 Kings 6:11
(And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,
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1 Kings 6:2
The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
1 Kings 6:3
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.
1 Kings 6:4
And for the house he made windows, with network across.
1 Kings 6:5
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:
1 Kings 6:6
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.
1 Kings 6:7
(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.)
1 Kings 6:8
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.
1 Kings 6:9
So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.
1 Kings 6:10
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.
1 Kings 8:12
Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men;
2 Chronicles 3:1
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.
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1 Kings 9:2
The Lord came to him again in a vision, as he had done at Gibeon;
1 Kings 9:4
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;
1 Kings 9:5
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.
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