1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.2 The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.3 The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.4 And he made for the house windows with recessed frames.5 He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around.6 The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.7 When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.8 The entrance for the lowest story was on the south side of the house, and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.9 So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.10 He built the structure against the whole house, five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.11 Now the word of the LORD came to Solomon,12 “Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel.”14 So Solomon built the house and finished it.15 He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar. From the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood, and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.16 He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.17 The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.18 The cedar within the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen.19 The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.20 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid an altar of cedar.21 And Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold, and he drew chains of gold across, in front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.22 And he overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. Also the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.24 Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.25 The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form.26 The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.27 He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house. And the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house.28 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.29 Around all the walls of the house he carved engraved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.30 The floor of the house he overlaid with gold in the inner and outer rooms.31 For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts were five-sided.32 He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. He overlaid them with gold and spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.33 So also he made for the entrance to the nave doorposts of olivewood, in the form of a square,34 and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.35 On them he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work.36 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and one course of cedar beams.37 In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid, in the month of Ziv.
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1 Salomão começou a edificar a Casa do Senhor em Jerusalém, no monte Moriá, onde o Senhor havia aparecido a Davi, seu pai, lugar que Davi tinha designado na eira de Ornã, o jebuseu.2 Começou a edificar no segundo dia do segundo mês, no quarto ano do seu reinado.3 Foram estas as medidas dos alicerces que Salomão lançou para edificar a Casa de Deus: vinte e sete metros de comprimento por nove de largura, segundo o padrão antigo.4 O pórtico diante da casa tinha nove metros no sentido da largura do Lugar Santo, e a altura era de cinquenta e quatro metros. Salomão revestiu o interior do pórtico de ouro puro.5 Também fez forrar de madeira de cipreste a sala grande, revestiu-a de ouro puro e gravou nela palmeiras e correntes.6 Também enfeitou a sala com pedras preciosas; e o ouro era de Parvaim.7 Revestiu de ouro a sala, as vigas, os umbrais, as paredes e as portas; e esculpiu querubins nas paredes.8 Fez o Santo dos Santos, cujo comprimento era de nove metros, segundo a largura da sala grande, e a largura também era de nove metros. Revestiu o seu interior com vinte toneladas de ouro puro.9 O peso dos pregos era de seiscentos gramas de ouro. Também revestiu de ouro os cenáculos.10 No Santo dos Santos, Salomão fez dois querubins de madeira e os revestiu de ouro.11 As asas estendidas dos querubins mediam, juntas, quatro metros e meio; a asa de um deles, de dois metros e vinte e cinco, tocava na parede do templo; e a outra asa, igualmente de dois metros e vinte e cinco, tocava na asa do outro querubim.12 Também a asa do outro querubim era de dois metros e vinte e cinco e tocava na outra parede; e a outra asa, igualmente de dois metros e vinte e cinco, estava unida à asa do outro querubim. As asas destes querubins se estendiam por nove metros.13 Eles estavam em pé, com o rosto voltado para o Santo Lugar.14 Salomão também fez o véu de pano azul, púrpura, carmesim e linho fino; e mandou bordar nele figuras de querubins.15 Salomão fez também diante da sala duas colunas de quinze metros e meio de altura, com um capitel de dois metros e vinte sobre cada uma delas.16 Também fez correntes, como as do Santo dos Santos, e as pôs no alto das colunas; fez também cem romãs, as quais pôs nas correntes.17 Levantou as colunas diante do templo, uma à direita e outra à esquerda. À coluna da direita deu o nome de Jaquim, e à coluna da esquerda deu o nome de Boaz.
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1 Quando Salomão terminou toda a obra que fez para a Casa do Senhor, trouxe as coisas que Davi, seu pai, havia dedicado: a prata, o ouro e todos os utensílios. Salomão pôs tudo isso entre os tesouros da Casa de Deus.2 Então Salomão congregou os anciãos de Israel e todos os chefes das tribos, os chefes das famílias dos israelitas, em Jerusalém, para levarem a arca da aliança do Senhor, da Cidade de Davi, que é Sião, para o templo.
