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Hiram was so happy when he heard Solomon's request that he said, "I am grateful that the Lord gave David such a wise son to be king of that great nation!"

Along the sides and back of the temple, there were three levels of storage rooms. The rooms on the bottom level were seven and a half feet wide, the rooms on the middle level were nine feet wide, and those on the top level were ten and a half feet wide. There were ledges on the outside of the temple that supported the beams of the storage rooms, so that nothing was built into the temple walls.

Solomon did not want the noise of hammers and axes to be heard at the place where the temple was being built. So he had the workers shape the blocks of stone at the quarry.

So Solomon's workers finished building the temple.

The two doors to the main room of the temple were made out of pine, and each one had two sections so they could fold open. The door frame was shaped like a rectangle and was made out of olive wood.

Hiram made the ten bronze stands from the same mold, so they were exactly the same size and shape.

There were so many bronze things that Solomon never bothered to weigh them, and no one ever knew how much bronze was used.

The poles were so long that they could be seen from right outside the most holy place, but not from anywhere else. And they stayed there from then on.

The Lord 's glory was in the cloud, and the light from it was so bright that the priests could not stay inside to do their work.

So when David wanted to build a temple for the Lord God of Israel,

I am your servant, and the people of Israel belong to you. So whenever any of us look toward this temple and pray, answer from your home in heaven and forgive our sins.

listen from your home in heaven and forgive them. The people of Israel are your servants, so teach them to live right. And please send rain on the land you promised them forever.

You know what is in everyone's heart. So from your home in heaven answer their prayers, according to the way they live and what is in their hearts.

I am your servant, and the people of Israel belong to you. So listen when any of us pray and cry out for your help.

He said, "Solomon, my friend, are these the kind of towns you want to give me?" So Hiram called the region Cabul because he thought it was worthless.

So Solomon had the town rebuilt. Solomon had his workers rebuild Lower Beth-Horon,

The Queen of Sheba heard how famous Solomon was, so she went to Jerusalem to test him with difficult questions.

But I didn't believe it until I saw it with my own eyes! And there's so much I didn't hear about. You are wiser and richer than I was told.

I praise the Lord your God. He is pleased with you and has made you king of Israel. The Lord loves Israel, so he has given them a king who will rule fairly and honestly.

The Lord did not want the Israelites to worship foreign gods, so he had warned them not to marry anyone who was not from Israel. Solomon loved his wife, the daughter of the king of Egypt. But he also loved some women from Moab, Ammon, and Edom, and others from Sidon and the land of the Hittites.