Quotes about Construction
So Solomon built the temple and finished it.
- 1 Kings 6:14
He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.
- 1 Kings 6:15
He partitioned off the 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.
- 1 Kings 6:16
And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
- 1 Kings 6:17
The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
- 1 Kings 6:20
For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon constructed doors of olive wood with five-sided doorposts.
- 1 Kings 6:31
In the same way he made four-sided doorposts of olive wood for the sanctuary entrance.
- 1 Kings 6:33
The two doors were made of cypress wood, and each had two folding panels.
- 1 Kings 6:34
Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 6:36
The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, in the month of Ziv.
- 1 Kings 6:37
Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.
- 1 Kings 7:1
He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 7:2