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Solomon put a roof made from beams and cedar boards on the Temple. So he finished building the Temple

So Solomon finished building the Temple.

So all the inside of the Temple, as well as the altar of the Most Holy Place, was covered with gold.

and had two wings. Each wing was seven and one-half feet long, so it was fifteen feet from the end of one wing to the end of the other.

Two doors were made from pine. Each door had two parts so the doors folded.

Huram's mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father was from Tyre and had been skilled in making things from bronze. Huram was also very skilled and experienced in bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and did all the bronze work.

The capitals on top of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the work on the pillars was finished.

This is the way Huram made the ten stands. The bronze for each stand was melted and poured into a mold, so all the stands were the same size and shape.

Huram also made bowls, shovels, and small bowls. So Huram finished all his work for King Solomon on the Temple of the Lord :

Solomon never weighed the bronze used to make these things, because there was too much to weigh. So the total weight of all the bronze was never known.

So all the Israelites came together with King Solomon during the festival in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month.

King Solomon and all the Israelites gathered before the Ark and sacrificed so many sheep and cattle no one could count them all.

The carrying poles were so long that anyone standing in the Holy Place in front of the Most Holy Place could see the ends of the poles, but no one could see them from outside the Holy Place. The poles are still there today.

"At times the land will become so dry that no food will grow, or a great sickness will spread among the people. Sometimes all the crops will be destroyed by locusts or grasshoppers. Your people will be attacked in their cities by their enemy or will become sick.

"Everyone sins, so your people will also sin against you. You will become angry with them and hand them over to their enemies. Their enemies will capture them and take them away to their countries far or near.

and may he turn us to himself so we will follow him. Let us obey all the laws and commands he gave our ancestors.

Solomon killed twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep as fellowship offerings. So the king and all the people gave the Temple to the Lord .

People will answer, ‘This happened because they left the Lord their God. This was the God who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, but they decided to follow other gods. They worshiped and served those gods, so the Lord brought all this disaster on them.'"

So Hiram traveled from Tyre to see the towns Solomon had given him, but when he saw them, he was not pleased.

He asked, "What good are these towns you have given me, my brother?" So he named them the Land of Cabul, and they are still called that today.