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I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days.

And the king said, "Bring me a sword." So a sword was brought before the king.

so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

And so I purpose to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD said to David my father, 'Your son, whom I will set upon your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.'

So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired,

So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the men of Gebal did the hewing and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.

When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry; so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the temple, while it was being built.

So he built the house, and finished it; and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.

So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.

He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house; and the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house.

So also he made for the entrance to the nave doorposts of olivewood, in the form of a square,

The great court had three courses of hewn stone round about, and a course of cedar beams; so had the inner court of the house of the LORD, and the vestibule of the house.

The capitals were upon the two pillars and also above the rounded projection which was beside the network; there were two hundred pomegranates, in two rows round about; and so with the other capital.

Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of the LORD:

And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not found out.

So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the LORD: the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence,

And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

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.

And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside; and they are there to this day.