He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.

盖造他的圣所，好像高峰，又像他建立永存之地；

建造他的圣所如同高峰，又像他所建立的永存之地。

建造他的圣所如同高峰，又像他所建立的永存之地。

祂为自己建造高耸的圣所，使它像大地一样长存。

他建造了自己的圣所好像在高天之上，又像他所建立永存的大地。

他建造他的圣所如同高峰，又像他永远建立的大地。

蓋造他的聖所，好像高峯，又像他建立永存之地；

建造他的聖所如同高峯，又像他所建立的永存之地。

建造他的聖所如同高峯，又像他所建立的永存之地。

祂為自己建造高聳的聖所，使它像大地一樣長存。

他建造了自己的聖所好像在高天之上，又像他所建立永存的大地。

他建造了他的聖所如高天，像他奠定到永遠的大地。

他建造他的聖所如同高峰，又像他永遠建立的大地。

建其聖室、如崇高之天、如永奠之地兮、

爰建聖室、與天同高、與地同久兮、

營建聖殿、崇高如天、如永久奠定之地、

峨峨聖所。實主所築。安如大地。終古自若。

There he built his holy place as secure as the heavens. He built it to last forever, like the earth.

He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.

There he built his sanctuary as high as the heavens, as solid and enduring as the earth.

He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.

And He built His sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which He has established forever.

And He built His sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which He has established forever.

And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever.

He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that He established forever.

And he built his sanctuary like high[ palaces], like the earth which he hath established for ever.

He made his sanctuary as enduring as the heavens above; as secure as the earth, which he established permanently.

He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.

Then King David said to the whole assembly:“ My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great, because this palatial structure is not for man but for the Lord God.

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the Lord.The temple that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high.The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple, that is twenty cubits, and projected ten cubits from the front of the temple.He made narrow windows high up in the temple walls.Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms.The lowest floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits and the third floor seven. He made offset ledges around the outside of the temple so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built.The entrance to the lowest floor was on the south side of the temple; a stairway led up to the middle level and from there to the third.So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks.And he built the side rooms all along the temple. The height of each was five cubits, and they were attached to the temple by beams of cedar.The word of the Lord came to Solomon:“ As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, observe my laws and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David your father.And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”So Solomon built the temple and completed it.He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper.He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the Lord there.The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high.One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits— ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip.The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape.The height of each cherub was ten cubits.He placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple, with their wings spread out. The wing of one cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the other touched the other wall, and their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.He overlaid the cherubim with gold.On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers.He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were one fifth of the width of the sanctuary.And on the two olive- wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.In the same way, for the entrance to the main hall he made doorframes out of olive wood that were one fourth of the width of the hall.He also made two doors out of juniper wood, each having two leaves that turned in sockets.He carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers on them and overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.The foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv.In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in all its details according to its specifications. He had spent seven years building it.

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; he seats them with princes and has them inherit a throne of honor.“ For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s; on them he has set the world.

For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

This temple will become a heap of rubble. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff and say,‘ Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.

And give my son Solomon the wholehearted devotion to keep your commands, statutes and decrees and to do everything to build the palatial structure for which I have provided.”

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.

Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them.

The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits long across the width of the building and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

Your faithfulness continues through all generations; you established the earth, and it endures.Your laws endure to this day, for all things serve you.

My own hand laid the foundations of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they all stand up together.

In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

to provide me with plenty of lumber, because the temple I build must be large and magnificent.