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But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him?

Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants are skilled in cutting Lebanon timber. My servants will work with your servants

to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am about to build will be great and wonderful.

I will provide for your servants, those who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil."

Huram also said, "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, who will build a temple for the Lord , and a royal palace for himself.

Now, as for the wheat, barley, oil, and wine, of which my lord has spoken, let him send them to his servants.

These are Solomon's measurements for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.

He also made ten basins in which to wash, and set five on the right side, and five on the left. In these they were to rinse what was used for the burnt offering. The sea was for the priests to wash in.

He made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court; he overlaid their doors with bronze.

And Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. Thus Huram finished the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of God:

the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.

The pots, the shovels, the forks, and all the equipment for these Huram-abi made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the Lord .

So Solomon made all the things that were in the house of God: the golden altar, the tables for the bread of the Presence,

the snuffers, basins, ladles, and firepans, of pure gold. As for the entrance to the temple: the inner doors to the most holy place and the doors of the nave of the temple were of gold.

Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the Lord was finished. Solomon brought in the things that his father David had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.

For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles.

Now when the priests came out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, without regard to their divisions),

It was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the Lord , and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the Lord , "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever," the house, the house of the Lord , was filled with a cloud,

so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God.

I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to reside in forever."