建造圣殿
1所罗门在做以色列王的第四年二月，即西弗月，开始为耶和华建殿。那时正是以色列人离开埃及后第四百八十年。 2所罗门王为耶和华建造的殿长二十七米，宽九米，高十三米半。 3殿前的门廊和殿一样宽九米，深四米半。 4殿有精致的窗户。 5靠殿墙、围着外殿和内殿又造了三层厢房， 6底层宽二点二五米，中层宽二点七米，上层宽三点一米。厢房的横梁都搭在殿墙突出的地方，免得插入殿墙。 7建殿的石头都在采石场凿好了，建殿的时候听不到锤子、斧头或其他铁器的响声。
8底层厢房的进口在殿的南面，沿着一道螺旋楼梯可以通到第二层和第三层。 9殿建成后，殿顶装上香柏木的梁木和木板。 10靠着殿墙所造的厢房每一层高二点二五米，用香柏木的梁木与殿墙接连起来。
耶和华的约
11耶和华对所罗门说： 12“关于你所建的这殿，若你遵行我的律例，顺从我的典章，谨守我的一切诫命，我必实现我对你父亲大卫的应许。 13我必住在以色列人当中，不抛弃我的以色列子民。”
14所罗门建造的殿落成了。 15殿里的墙壁和天花板都铺上了香柏木，地面都铺上了松木板。 16在殿的后部，从地面至天花板用香柏木板隔出长九米的内殿，就是至圣所。 17在至圣所外面是外殿，长十八米。 18殿内全部铺上香柏木，不露一点石头，香柏木上刻着野瓜和花朵的图案。 19殿的至圣所用来安放耶和华的约柜。 20至圣所长、宽和高都是九米，里面全贴上纯金，香柏木造的祭坛也包上纯金。 21殿内全部贴上纯金，至圣所前面有金链拦着。 22殿内都贴上纯金，至圣所内的祭坛也都包上纯金。
23至圣所里面放着两个橄榄木造的基路伯天使，各高四米半， 24各有两个二点二五米长的翅膀，双翅展开，两翅尖相距四点五米。 25两个基路伯的大小和形状一模一样， 26高度都是四点五米。 27他将两个基路伯安在至圣所内，两个基路伯展开翅膀，各有一个翅膀在至圣所的中央相接，另一个翅膀的尖端触到墙壁。 28这两个基路伯天使也包上金。
29内殿和外殿的墙壁都刻上基路伯天使、棕树和花朵的图案， 30地板是铺金的。 31至圣所的门、门楣和门柱都是橄榄木造的，门柱呈五角形。 32两扇用橄榄木造的门上都刻着基路伯天使、棕树和花朵的图案，并包上金。 33外殿的四角形门柱也是用橄榄木造的， 34两扇门是松木造的，每一扇门都分为可折叠的两片， 35上面刻着基路伯天使、棕树和花朵的图案，并包上金。 36内院的墙是由三层凿好的石头和一层香柏木建的。
37耶和华的殿在所罗门执政第四年的西弗月奠基， 38在他执政的第十一年的布勒月，即八月全部按规格建成，历经七年。
Solomon builds the temple
1In the four hundred and eightieth6:1 Hebrew; Septuagint four hundred and fortieth 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.
2The temple that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high.6:2 That is, about 27 metres long, 9 metres wide and 14 metres high 3The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple, that is twenty cubits,6:3 That is, about 9 metres; also in verses 16 and 20 and projected ten cubits6:3 That is, about 4.5 metres; also in verses 23-26 from the front of the temple. 4He made narrow windows high up in the temple walls. 5Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms. 6The lowest floor was five cubits6:6 That is, about 2.3 metres; also in verses 10 and 24 wide, the middle floor six cubits6:6 That is, about 2.7 metres and the third floor seven.6:6 That is, about 3.2 metres He made offset ledges around the outside of the temple so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.
7In 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.
8The entrance to the lowest6:8 Septuagint; Hebrew middle floor was on the south side of the temple; a stairway led up to the middle level and from there to the third. 9So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks. 10And 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.
11The word of the Lord came to Solomon: 12‘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 fulfil through you the promise I gave to David your father. 13And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.’
14So Solomon built the temple and completed it. 15He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, panelling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper. 16He 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. 17The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits6:17 That is, about 18 metres long. 18The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.
19He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the Lord there. 20The 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. 21Solomon 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. 22So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
23For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high. 24One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits – ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip. 25The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape. 26The height of each cherub was ten cubits. 27He 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. 28He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29On the walls all round the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers. 30He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.
31For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were one fifth of the width of the sanctuary. 32And on the two olive-wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold. 33In the same way, for the entrance to the main hall he made doorframes out of olive wood that were one quarter of the width of the hall. 34He also made two doors out of juniper wood, each having two leaves that turned in sockets. 35He carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers on them and overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.
36And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.
37The foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv. 38In 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.
