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hewers of timber twentie thousand measures of an hundreth and twentie, and he ouerlayd it
beaten wheate, and twentie thousand measures within with pure golde. And the greater house
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of barley, and twentie thousand baths of wine, he sieled with firre tree which he ouerlayd with
and twentie thousand baths of oyle. 11 Then good golde, and graued thereon palme trees and
Huram King of Tyrus answered in writing which chaines. 6 And hee ouerlayde the house with
he sent to Salomon, Because the Lord hath loued precious stone for beautie: and the golde was
his people, he hath made thee King ouer them. 7
12 Huram sayd moreouer, Blessed be the Lord gold of Paruaim. The house, I say, the beames,
God of Israel, which made the heauen and the postes, and walles thereof and the doores thereof
earth, and that hath giuen vnto Dauid the King ouerlayde he with gold, and graued Cherubims
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a wise sonne, that hath discretion, prudence and vpon the walles. He made also the house of the
vnderstanding to buylde an house for the Lord, most holy place: the length thereof was in the
and a palace for his kingdome. 13 Now therefore front of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits,
I haue sent a wise man, and of vnderstanding of and the breadth thereof twentie cubites: and he
ouerlayde it with the best golde, of sixe hundreth
my father Hurams, 14 The sonne of a woman of talents. And the weight of the nayles was fiftie
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the daughters of Dan: and his father was a man shekels of golde, and hee ouerlayde the chambers
of Tyrus, and he can skill to worke in golde, in with golde. 10 And in the house of the most holy
siluer, in brasse, in yron, in stone, and in timber, place he made two Cherubims wrought like chil-
in purple, in blue silke, and in fine linen, and dren, and ouerlayd them with golde. 11 And the
in crimosin, and can graue in all grauen workes,
and broyder in all broydered worke that shalbe winges of the Cherubims were twentie cubites
giuen him, with thy cunning men, and with the long: the one wing was fiue cubites, reaching to
cunning men of my lord Dauid thy father. 15 Now the wall of the house, and the other wing fiue
therefore the wheate and the barley, the oyle and cubites, reaching to the wing of the other Cherub.
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the wine, which my lorde hath spoken of, let him Likewise the wing of ye other Cherub was
send vnto his seruants. 16 And we wil cut wood fiue cubites, reaching to the wall of the house,
in Lebanon as much as thou shalt neede, and will and the other wing fiue cubites ioyning to the
bring it to thee in raftes by the sea to Iapho, wing of the other Cherub. 13 The wings of these
so thou mayest cary them to Ierusalem. 17 And Cherubims were spread abroade twentie cubites:
Salomon nombred al the strangers that were in they stoode on their feete, and their faces were
the land of Israel, after the nombring that his toward the house. 14 He made also the vaile of
father Dauid had nombred them: and they were blew silke and purple, and crimosin, and fine
found an hundreth and three and fiftie thou- linen, and wrought Cherubims thereon. 15 And
sand, and sixe hundreth. 18 And he set seuentie he made before the house two pillars of fiue and
thousande of them to the burden, and fourescore thirtie cubites hie: and the chapiter that was
thousande to hewe stones in the mountaine, and vpon the top of eche of them, was fiue cubites.
three thousande and sixe hundreth ouerseers to 16 He made also chaines for the oracle, and put
cause the people to worke. them on the heads of the pillars, and made an
3 hundreth pomegranates, and put them among
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And he set vp the pillars before the
the chaines.
1 So Salomon began to buyld the house of the Temple, one on the right hande and the other on
Lord in Ierusalem, in mount Moriah which had the left, and called that on the right hand Iachin,
bene declared vnto Dauid his father, in the place and that on the left hand Boaz.
that Dauid prepared in the thresshing floore of
Ornan the Iebusite. 2 And he beganne to buylde 4
in the seconde moneth and the second day, in 1 And hee made an altar of brasse twentie
the fourth yeere of his reigne. 3 And these are cubites long, and twentie cubites broade, and ten
the measures, whereon Salomon grounded to cubites hie. And he made a molten Sea of ten cu-
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buylde the house of God: the length of cubites bites from brim to brim, rounde in compasse, and
after the first measure was threescore cubites, fiue cubites hie: and a line of thirtie cubites did
and the breadth twenty cubites: And the porch, compasse it about. 3 And vnder it was ye facion
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that was before the length in the front of the of oxen, which did compasse it rounde about,
breadth was twentie cubits, and the height was tenne in a cubite compassing the Sea about: two