It was Solomon, rather, who built him a house,

却是所罗门为神造成殿宇。

但却是所罗门为上帝造成殿宇。

但却是所罗门为神造成殿宇。

结果是他的儿子所罗门为上帝建成了圣殿。

而由所罗门为他建造殿宇。

但为神建造殿宇的却是所罗门。

卻是所羅門為神造成殿宇。

但卻是所羅門為上帝造成殿宇。

但卻是所羅門為神造成殿宇。

結果是他的兒子所羅門為上帝建成了聖殿。

而由所羅門為他建造殿宇。

然而是所羅門才為上帝建殿的。

但為神建造殿宇的卻是所羅門。

而所羅門為之建室、

所羅門建之、

所羅門為天主建殿、

至所羅門始為天主建殿。

But it was Solomon who built a house for him.

But it was Solomon who built the temple for God.

But it was Solomon who built a house for him.

But it was Solomon who actually built it.

But it was Solomon who built a house for Him.

But Solomon built Him a house.

But Solomon built him a house.

But it was Solomon who built Him a house.

But Solomon built him an house.

But Solomon built a house for him.

But Solomon built him a house.

The LORD has fulfilled what he promised. I have taken the place of my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the temple for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

The foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid in Solomon’s fourth year in the month of Ziv.In his eleventh year in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the temple was completed in every detail and according to every specification. So he built it in seven years.

He is the one who will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

Solomon decided to build a temple for the name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself,so he assigned 70,000 men as porters, 80,000 men as stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 as supervisors over them.Then Solomon sent word to King Hiram of Tyre: Do for me what you did for my father David. You sent him cedars to build him a house to live in.Now I am building a temple for the name of the LORD my God in order to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for displaying the rows of the Bread of the Presence continuously, and for sacrificing burnt offerings for the morning and the evening, the Sabbaths and the New Moons, and the appointed festivals of the LORD our God. This is ordained for Israel permanently.

When David had settled into his palace, he said to the prophet Nathan,“ Look! I am living in a cedar house while the ark of the LORD’s covenant is under tent curtains.”

Then Solomon began to build the LORD’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

King Hiram of Tyre sent his emissaries to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place, for Hiram had always been friends with David.Solomon sent this message to Hiram:“ You know my father David was not able to build a temple for the name of the LORD his God. This was because of the warfare all around him until the LORD put his enemies under his feet.The LORD my God has now given me rest on every side; there is no enemy or misfortune.So I plan to build a temple for the name of the LORD my God, according to what the LORD promised my father David:‘ I will put your son on your throne in your place, and he will build the temple for my name.’“ Therefore, command that cedars from Lebanon be cut down for me. My servants will be with your servants, and I will pay your servants’ wages according to whatever you say, for you know that not a man among us knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”When Hiram heard Solomon’s words, he rejoiced greatly and said,“ Blessed be the LORD today! He has given David a wise son to be over this great people!”Then Hiram sent a reply to Solomon, saying,“ I have heard your message; I will do everything you want regarding the cedar and cypress timber.My servants will bring the logs down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place you indicate. I will break them apart there, and you can take them away. You then can meet my needs by providing my household with food.”So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted,and Solomon provided Hiram with one hundred twenty thousand bushels of wheat as food for his household and one hundred twenty thousand gallons of oil from crushed olives. Solomon did this for Hiram year after year.The LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.Then King Solomon drafted forced laborers from all Israel; the labor force numbered thirty thousand men.He sent ten thousand to Lebanon each month in shifts; one month they were in Lebanon, two months they were at home. Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.Solomon had seventy thousand porters and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains,not including his thirty-three hundred deputies in charge of the work. They supervised the people doing the work.The king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the temple’s construction.Solomon began to build the temple for the LORD in the four hundred eightieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of his reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month.The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was ninety feet long, thirty feet wide, and forty-five feet high.

King Solomon had Hiram brought from Tyre.He was a widow’s son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a bronze craftsman. Hiram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge to do every kind of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.He cast two bronze pillars, each 27 feet high and 18 feet in circumference.He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars; 7½ feet was the height of the first capital, and 7½ feet was also the height of the second capital.The capitals on top of the pillars had gratings of latticework, wreaths made of chainwork— seven for the first capital and seven for the second.He made the pillars with two encircling rows of pomegranates on the one grating to cover the capital on top; he did the same for the second capital.And the capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, six feet high.The capitals on the two pillars were also immediately above the rounded surface next to the grating, and two hundred pomegranates were in rows encircling each capital.He set up the pillars at the portico of the sanctuary: he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin; then he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz.The tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. Then the work of the pillars was completed.He made the cast metal basin, 15 feet from brim to brim, perfectly round. It was 7½ feet high and 45 feet in circumference.Ornamental gourds encircled it below the brim, ten every half yard, completely encircling the basin. The gourds were cast in two rows when the basin was cast.It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The basin was on top of them and all their hindquarters were toward the center.The basin was three inches thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup or of a lily blossom. It held eleven thousand gallons.Then he made ten bronze water carts. Each water cart was 6 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 4½ feet high.This was the design of the carts: They had frames; the frames were between the cross-pieces,and on the frames between the cross-pieces were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the cross-pieces there was a pedestal above, and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.Each cart had four bronze wheels with bronze axles. Underneath the four corners of the basin were cast supports, each next to a wreath.And the water cart’s opening inside the crown on top was eighteen inches wide. The opening was round, made as a pedestal twenty-seven inches wide. On it were carvings, but their frames were square, not round.There were four wheels under the frames, and the wheel axles were part of the water cart; each wheel was twenty-seven inches tall.The wheels’ design was similar to that of chariot wheels: their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of cast metal.Four supports were at the four corners of each water cart; each support was one piece with the water cart.At the top of the cart was a band nine inches high encircling it; also, at the top of the cart, its braces and its frames were one piece with it.He engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees on the plates of its braces and on its frames, wherever each had space, with encircling wreaths.In this way he made the ten water carts using the same casting, dimensions, and shape for all of them.Then he made ten bronze basins— each basin held 220 gallons and each was six feet wide— one basin for each of the ten water carts.He set five water carts on the right side of the temple and five on the left side. He put the basin near the right side of the temple toward the southeast.Then Hiram made the basins, the shovels, and the sprinkling basins. So Hiram finished all the work that he was doing for King Solomon on the LORD’s temple:two pillars; bowls for the capitals that were on top of the two pillars; the two gratings for covering both bowls of the capitals that were on top of the pillars;the four hundred pomegranates for the two gratings( two rows of pomegranates for each grating covering both capitals’ bowls on top of the pillars);the ten water carts; the ten basins on the water carts;the basin; the twelve oxen underneath the basin;and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling basins. All the utensils that Hiram made for King Solomon at the LORD’s temple were made of burnished bronze.The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan.Solomon left all the utensils unweighed because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not determined.Solomon also made all the equipment in the LORD’s temple: the gold altar; the gold table that the Bread of the Presence was placed on;the pure gold lampstands in front of the inner sanctuary, five on the right and five on the left; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;the pure gold ceremonial bowls, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, ladles, and firepans; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple( that is, the most holy place) and for the doors of the temple sanctuary.So all the work King Solomon did in the LORD’s temple was completed. Then Solomon brought in the consecrated things of his father David— the silver, the gold, and the utensils— and put them in the treasuries of the LORD’s temple.

You are to tell him: This is what the LORD of Armies says: Here is a man whose name is Branch; he will branch out from his place and build the LORD’s temple.Yes, he will build the LORD’s temple; he will bear royal splendor and will sit on his throne and rule. There will be a priest on his throne, and there will be peaceful counsel between the two of them.