Verse 7
1 Kings 6:7
Bible in Basic English
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(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.)
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/הַ/בַּ֨יִת֙ בְּ/הִבָּ֣נֹת֔/וֹ אֶֽבֶן שְׁלֵמָ֥ה מַסָּ֖ע נִבְנָ֑ה וּ/מַקָּב֤וֹת וְ/הַ/גַּרְזֶן֙ כָּל כְּלִ֣י בַרְזֶ֔ל לֹֽא נִשְׁמַ֥ע בַּ/בַּ֖יִת בְּ/הִבָּנֹתֽ/וֹ
English Translation
And the house, when it was being built, was built of complete stone; neither hammer nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.
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Chapter 6 Context
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In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, i...
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The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubit...
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The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten...
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And for the house he made windows, with network across.
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And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put...
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The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubit...
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(And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out;...
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The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting s...
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So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.
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And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting ag...
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(And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,
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About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions an...
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And I will be ever among the children of Israel, and will not go away from my people.
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So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)
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The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the...
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And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood,...
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And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.
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(All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonewo...
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And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreemen...
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And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, an...
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Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front...
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Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely (and the altar in the i...
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In the inmost room he made two winged beings of olive-wood, ten cubits high;
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With outstretched wings five cubits wide; the distance from the edge of one wing to the edge of the...
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The two winged ones were ten cubits high, of the same size and form.
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The two of them were ten cubits high.
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These were placed inside the inner house, their outstretched wings touching the walls of the house,...
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These winged ones were plated over with gold.
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And all the walls of the house inside and out were ornamented with forms of winged ones and palm-tre...
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And the floor of the house was covered with gold, inside and out.
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For the way into the inmost room he made doors of olive-wood, the arch and the door supports forming...
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On the olive-wood doors were cut designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, all of them...
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Then he made pillars of olive-wood for the way into the Temple; the pillars were square:
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And two folding doors of cypress-wood, with two leaves.
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These were ornamented with designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, plated over with...
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And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.
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In the fourth year the base of the house was put in its place, in the month Ziv.
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And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the building of the house was...
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