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Melakhim Alef5
1 Kings · Chapter 5
And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Shelomoh; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of Dawid.
And Shelomoh sent to Hiram, saying,
Thou knowest how that Dawid my father could not build an house unto the name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) his Elohim for the wars which were about him on every side, until 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) put them under the soles of his feet.
But now 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) my Elohim hath given me rest on every side,
so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) my Elohim, as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake unto Dawid my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.
Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that
there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.
And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Shelomoh, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed
be 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) this day, which hath given unto Dawid a wise son over this great people.
And Hiram sent to Shelomoh, saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for:
and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
My servants shall bring
them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive
them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
So Hiram gave Shelomoh cedar trees and fir trees
according to
all his desire.
And Shelomoh gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat
for
food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Shelomoh to Hiram year by year.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) gave Shelomoh wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Shelomoh; and they two made a league together.
And king Shelomoh raised a levy out of all Yisra'el; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
And he sent them to Lebanon ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon,
and two months at home: and Adoniram
was over the levy.
And Shelomoh had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
Beside the chief of Shelomoh’s officers which
were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones,
and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
And Shelomoh’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew
them,
and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
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Melakhim Alef6
1 Kings · Chapter 6
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Yisra'el were come out of the land of Mitsrayim, in the fourth year of Shelomoh’s reign over Yisra'el, in the month Zif, which
is the second month, that he began to build the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And the house which king Shelomoh built for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), the length thereof
was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty
cubits,
and the height thereof thirty cubits.
And the porch before the heikhal of the house, twenty cubits
was
the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house;
and
ten cubits
was the breadth thereof before the house.
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about,
against the walls of the house round about,
both of the heikhal and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
The nethermost chamber
was five cubits broad, and the middle
was six cubits broad, and the third
was seven cubits broad: for without
in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that
the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe
nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
The door for the middle chamber
was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle
chamber,
and out of the middle into the third.
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
And
then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house
with timber of cedar.
And the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) came to Shelomoh, saying,
Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my mitsvot to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto Dawid thy father:
And I will dwell among the children of Yisra'el, and will not forsake my people Yisra'el.
So Shelomoh built the house, and finished it.
And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling:
and he covered
them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built
them for it within,
even for the oracle,
even for the most holy
place.
And the house, that
is, the heikhal before it, was forty cubits
long.
And the cedar of the house within
was carved with knops and open flowers: all
was cedar; there was no stone seen.
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the b'rit of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And the oracle in the forepart
was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar
which was of
cedar.
So Shelomoh overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that
was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.
And within the oracle he made two cherubims
of olive tree,
each ten cubits high.
And five cubits
was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other
were ten cubits.
And the other cherub
was ten cubits: both the cherubims
were of one measure and one size.
The height of the one cherub
was ten cubits, and so
was it of the other cherub.
And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the
one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
And for the entering of the oracle he made doors
of olive tree: the lintel
and side posts
were a fifth part
of the wall.
The two doors also
were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid
them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
So also made he for the door of the heikhal posts of olive tree, a fourth part
of the wall.
And the two doors
were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door
were folding, and the two leaves of the other door
were
folding.
And he carved
thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered
them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) laid, in the month Zif:
And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which
is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
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Melakhim Alef7
1 Kings · Chapter 7
But Shelomoh was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof
was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
And
it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that
lay on forty five pillars, fifteen
in a row.
And
there were windows
in three rows, and light
was against light
in three ranks.
And all the doors and posts
were square, with the windows: and light
was against light
in three ranks.
And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof
was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the
other pillars and the thick beam
were before them.
Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge,
even
the porch of judgment: and
it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
And his house where he dwelt
had another court within the porch,
which was of the like work. Shelomoh made also an house for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken
to wife, like unto this porch.
All these
were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
And the foundation
was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
And above
were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
And the great court round about
was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and for the porch of the house.
And king Shelomoh sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
He
was a widow’s son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father
was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Shelomoh, and wrought all his work.
For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
And he made two chapiters
of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter
was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter
was five cubits:
And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which
were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that
were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
And the chapiters that
were upon the top of the pillars
were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
And the chapiters upon the two pillars
had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which
was by the network: and the pomegranates
were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.
And he set up the pillars in the porch of the heikhal: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and he called the name thereof Boaz.
And upon the top of the pillars
was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other:
it was round all about, and his height
was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
And under the brim of it round about
there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops
were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea
was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts
were inward.
And it
was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits
was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
And the work of the bases
was on this
manner: they had borders, and the borders
were between the ledges:
And on the borders that
were between the ledges
were
lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges
there was
a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen
were certain additions made of thin work.
And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver
were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above
was a cubit: but the mouth thereof
was round
after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it
were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
And under the borders
were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels
were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel
was a cubit and a half a cubit.
And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes,
were
all molten.
And
there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base:
and the undersetters
were of the very base itself.
And in the top of the base
was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof
were of the same.
For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
After this
manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure,
and one size.
Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths:
and every laver was four cubits:
and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.
And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Shelomoh for the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH):
The two pillars, and the
two bowls of the chapiters that
were on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which
were upon the top of the pillars;
And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks,
even
two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that
were upon the pillars;
And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Shelomoh for the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH),
were of
bright brass.
In the plain of Yarden did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
And Shelomoh left all the vessels
unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
And Shelomoh made all the vessels that
pertained unto the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread
was,
And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right
side,
and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs
of gold,
And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers
of pure gold; and the hinges
of gold,
both
for the doors of the inner house, the most holy
place, and
for the doors of the house,
to wit, of the heikhal.
So was ended all the work that king Shelomoh made for the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH). And Shelomoh brought in the things which Dawid his father had dedicated;
even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).