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him send unto his servants:
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And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need:
and we will bring it to thee in flotes by sea to Joppa; and thou shall carry it up to Jerusalem.
17
And Solomon numbered all the strangers that
were
in the land of Israel, after the numbering
wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand
and three thousand and six hundred.
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And he set threescore and ten thousand of them
to be
bearers
of burdens, and fourscore thousand
to be
hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred
overseers to set the people a work.
CHAPTER CHRONICLES 3
Then Solomon began to build the house of the L
ORD
at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where
the L
ORD
appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan
the Jebusite.
2
And he began to build in the second
day
of the second month, in the fourth year of
his reign.
3
Now these
are the things wherein
Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of
God. The length by cubits after the first measure
was
threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty
cubits.
4
And the porch that
was
in the front
of the house,
the length
of it was
according to the
breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height
was
an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it
within with pure gold.
5
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine
gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
6
And he garnished the house with precious stones for
beauty: and the gold
was
gold of Parvaim.
7
He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and
the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.
8
And he
made the most holy house, the length whereof
was
according to the breadth of the house, twenty
cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold,
amounting
to six
hundred talents.
9
And the weight of the nails
was
fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper
chambers with gold.
10
And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and
overlaid them with gold.
11
And the wings of the cherubims
were
twenty cubits long: one wing
of the one cherub was
five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing
was likewise
five cubits, reaching
to the wing of the other cherub.
12
And
one
wing of the other cherub
was
five cubits, reaching to
the wall of the house: and the other wing
was
five cubits
also,
joining to the wing of the other
cherub.
13
The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on
their feet, and their faces
were
inward.
14
And he made the vail
of
blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims
thereon.
15
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter
that
was
on the top of each of them
was
five cubits.
16
And he made chains,
as
in the oracle, and
put
them
on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put
them
on the chains.
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