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And under it was the shape of oxen, under it and all around it for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. Two rows of oxen were cast when it was cast.

He also made ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them; they washed what pertains to the burnt offering with them; and the sea was for the priests to wash in.

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

And Hiram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. And Hiram finished the work that he was to make for King Solomon in the house of God:

and the pots, and the shovels, and the forks, and all their vessels did his master Hiram make for King Solomon for the house of Jehovah, of burnished bronze.

And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, and the golden altar, and the tables on which the Bread of the Presence rested ;

and the lampstands, and their lamps, for their burning was according to the ordinance, before the holy place, of refined gold;

And all the work that Solomon made for the house of Jehovah was finished. And Solomon brought in the dedicated things of his father David, and the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels he had put among the treasures of the house of God.

And King Solomon and all the company of Israel who were assembled to him before the ark were sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

And it happened as the priests were going from the sanctuary (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves without observing divisions),

And they were as one to the trumpeters, and to the singers to cause one sound to be heard to praise and to thank Jehovah. And when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets andcymbals and instruments of music, and praisedJehovah, saying , For He is good; for his mercy endures forever; and a cloud filled the house, the house of Jehovah;

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

And I have surely built an exalted house for You, and a place for You to dwell forever.

From the day that I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city out of any of the tribes of Israel to build a house for My name to be there, and I have not chosen a man to be leader over My people Israel.

But I have chosen Jerusalem for My name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.

And it was in the heart of my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah the God of Israel.

And Jehovah said to my father David, Because it has been in your heart to build a house for My name, you have done well that it has been in your heart.

But you shall not build the house, for your son who comes forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for My name.

And Jehovah has lifted up His Word that He spoke, for I have risen up in the place of my father David, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah spoke. And I have built the house for the name of Jehovah the God of Israel.

For is it true that God shall dwell with men on the earth? Behold, the heavens, and the Heaven of heavens, do not contain You. How much less this house that I have built!