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rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all of gold and the furnishings. He put them in the
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cast bronze. And there were four supports at treasuries of the house of the LORD.
the four corners of each cart; its supports were Now Solomon assembled the elders of Is-
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part of the cart itself. On the top of the cart, 8 rael and all the heads of the tribes, the
at the height of half a cubit, it was perfectly chief fathers of the children of Israel, to King
round. And on the top of the cart, its flanges Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring
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and its panels were of the same casting. On the up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the
plates of its flanges and on its panels he City of David, which is Zion. Therefore all the
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engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, men of Israel assembled with King Solomon at
wherever there was a clear space on each, with the feast in the month of Ethanim, which is the
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wreaths all around. Thus he made the ten seventh month. So all the elders of Israel
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carts. All of them were of the same mold, one came, and the priests took up the ark. Then
measure, and one shape. they brought up the ark of the LORD, the tab-
38 Then he made ten lavers of bronze; each ernacle of meeting, and all the holy furnish-
laver contained forty baths, and each laver was ings that were in the tabernacle. The priests
four cubits. On each of the ten carts was a laver. and the Levites brought them up. Also King
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39 And he put five carts on the right side of the Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel
house, and five on the left side of the house. He who were assembled with him, were with him
set the Sea on the right side of the house, before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen that
toward the southeast. could not be counted or numbered for multi-
40 Huram made the lavers and the shovels tude. Then the priests brought in the ark of
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and the bowls. So Huram finished doing all the covenant of the LORD to its place, into the
the work that he was to do for King Solomon inner sanctuary of the temple, to the Most
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for the house of the LORD: the two pillars, the Holy Place, under the wings of the cherubim.
two bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of 7 For the cherubim spread their two wings over
the two pillars; the two networks covering the the place of the ark, and the cherubim over-
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two bowl-shaped capitals which were on top of shadowed the ark and its poles. The poles ex-
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the pillars; four hundred pomegranates for tended so that the ends of the poles could be
the two networks (two rows of pomegranates seen from the holy place, in front of the inner
for each network, to cover the two bowl- sanctuary; but they could not be seen from
shaped capitals that were on top of the pillars); outside. And they are there to this day. Noth-
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43 the ten carts, and ten lavers on the carts; ing was in the ark except the two tablets of
44 one Sea, and twelve oxen under the Sea; the stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when
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pots, the shovels, and the bowls. the LORD made a covenant with the children of
All these articles which Huram made for Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
King Solomon for the house of the LORD were 10 And it came to pass, when the priests came
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of burnished bronze. In the plain of Jordan out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the
the king had them cast in clay molds, house of the LORD, so that the priests could
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between Succoth and Zaretan. And Solomon not continue ministering because of the cloud;
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did not weigh all the articles, because there for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the
were so many; the weight of the bronze was LORD.
not determined. 12 Then Solomon spoke:
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made for the house of the LORD: the altar of “The LORD said He would dwell in the
dark cloud.
gold, and the table of gold on which was the 13 I have surely built You an exalted
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showbread; the lampstands of pure gold, five house,
on the right side and five on the left in front of And a place for You to dwell in forever.”
the inner sanctuary, with the flowers and the
lamps and the wick-trimmers of gold; the
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basins, the trimmers, the bowls, the ladles,
and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges
of gold, both for the doors of the inner room 8:10 the cloud. The cloud was “the glory of
(the Most Holy Place) and for the doors of the the LORD,” the visible symbol of God’s pres-
main hall of the temple. ence. It signaled the Lord’s approval of this
51 So all the work that King Solomon had new temple. A similar manifestation took
done for the house of the LORD was finished; place when the tabernacle was dedicated (Ex.
and Solomon brought in the things which his 40:34,35).
father David had dedicated: the silver and the
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