|<< 1 Kings 6 >>| Darby Bible Translation Solomon Builds the
Temple (2 Chronicles 3:1-2) 1And it came to pass in the four
hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were
come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's
reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month,
that he began to build the house of Jehovah. 2And the house that
king Solomon built for Jehovah was sixty cubits in length, and
twenty in breadth, and thirty cubits in height. 3And the porch,
in front of the temple of the house, was twenty cubits in
length, in front of the house broadways, and ten cubits was its
breadth, in front of the house. 4And for the house he made
closed windows with fixed lattices. 5And against the wall of the
house he built floors round about, against the walls of the
house, round about the temple and the oracle; and he made side-
chambers round about. 6The lowest floor was five cubits broad,
and the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven
cubits broad; for in the