1Solomon began to build the temple of the LORD. It was 480 years after the Israelites came out of Egypt. It was in the fourth year of Solomon’s rule over Israel. He started in the second month. That was the month of Ziv.2The temple King Solomon built for the LORD was 30 metres long. It was 10 metres wide. And it was 15 metres high.3The temple had a porch in front of the main hall. The porch was as wide as the temple itself. It was 10 metres wide. It came out 5 metres from the front of the temple.4Solomon made narrow windows high up in the temple walls.5He built side rooms around the temple. They were built against the walls of the main hall and the Most Holy Room.6On the first floor the side rooms were 2.5 metres wide. On the second floor they were 3 metres wide. And on the third floor they were 3.5 metres wide. Solomon made the walls of the temple thinner as they went up floor by floor. The result was ledges along the walls. So the floor beams of the side rooms rested on the ledges. The beams didn’t go into the temple walls.7All the stones used for building the temple were shaped where they were cut. So hammers, chisels and other iron tools couldn’t be heard where the temple was being built.8The entrance to the first floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the second floor. From there it went on up to the third floor.9So Solomon built the temple and finished it. He made its roof out of beams and cedar boards.10He built side rooms all along the temple. Each room was 2.5 metres high. They were joined to the temple by cedar beams.11A message came to Solomon from the LORD. The LORD said,12‘You are now building this temple. Follow my orders. Keep my rules. Obey all my commands. Then I will make the promise I gave your father David come true. I will do it through you.13I will live among my people Israel. I will not desert them.’14So Solomon built the temple and finished it.15He put cedar boards on its inside walls. He covered them from floor to ceiling. He covered the temple floor with juniper boards.16He put up a wall 10 metres from the back of the temple. He made it with cedar boards from floor to ceiling. That formed a room inside the temple. It was the Most Holy Room.17The main hall in front of the room was 20 metres long.18The inside of the temple was covered with cedar wood. Gourds and open flowers were carved on the wood. Everything was cedar. There wasn’t any stone showing anywhere.19Solomon prepared the Most Holy Room inside the temple. That’s where the ark of the covenant of the LORD would be placed.20The Most Holy Room was 10 metres long. It was 10 metres wide. And it was 10 metres high. Solomon covered the inside of it with pure gold. He prepared the cedar altar for burning incense. He covered it with gold.21Solomon covered the inside of the main hall with pure gold. He placed gold chains across the front of the Most Holy Room. That room was covered with gold.22So Solomon covered the inside of the whole temple with gold. He also covered the altar for burning incense with gold. It was right in front of the Most Holy Room.23For the Most Holy Room Solomon made a pair of cherubim. He made them out of olive wood. Each cherub was 5 metres high.24One wing of the first cherub was 2.5 metres long. The other wing was also 2.5 metres long. So the wings measured 5 metres from tip to tip.25The second cherub’s wings also measured 5 metres from tip to tip. The two cherubim had the same size and shape.26Each cherub was 5 metres high.27Solomon placed the cherubim inside the Most Holy Room in the temple. Their wings were spread out. The wing tip of one cherub touched one wall. The wing tip of the other touched the other wall. The tips of their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.28Solomon covered the cherubim with gold.29On the walls all around the temple he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers. He carved them on the walls of the Most Holy Room and the main hall.30He also covered the floors of those two rooms with gold.31For the entrance to the Most Holy Room he made two doors out of olive wood. Each door was one-fifth of the width of the Most Holy Room.32On the two olive wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers. He covered the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.33In the same way he made olive wood doorposts for the entrance to the main hall. Each doorpost was one quarter of the width of the hall.34He also made two doors out of juniper wood. Each door had two parts. They turned in bases shaped like cups.35He carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers on the doors. He covered the doors with gold. He hammered the gold evenly over the carvings.36He used blocks of stone to build a wall around the inside courtyard. The first three layers of the wall were made out of stone. The top layer was made out of beautiful cedar wood.37The foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid in Solomon’s fourth year. It was in the month of Ziv.38The temple was finished in his 11th year. It was in the month of Bul. That was the eighth month. Everything was finished just as the plans required. Solomon had spent seven years building the temple.
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Salomo börjar bygga templet
1Det var på våren under Salomos fjärde regeringsår och i den andra månaden, 480 år efter det att Israels folk lämnat slaveriet i Egypten, som Salomo började bygga templet.2Templet var tjugosju meter långt, nio meter brett och tretton och en halv meter högt.3Utmed hela framsidan av templet fanns en portal, bredare än själva templet och fyra och en halv meter djup.4Det fanns smala, djupt liggande fönster på templet.5Runt den stora salens väggar och det allra heligaste byggdes ett ramverk i tre våningar som avdelades i kamrar.6Den nedersta våningen var två och en halv meter bred, den mellersta tre och den övre tre och en halv meter bred. Rummen var förenade med tempelmurarna genom bommar, som vilade på stockar som stack ut från muren. På så sätt behövde inte fästhål göras i själva muren.7Stenarna, som användes vid tempelbygget, hade huggits färdiga redan vid stenbrottet, och därför kunde hela byggnaden uppföras utan ljudet från hammare, yxa eller andra verktyg.8Dörren till sidorummens bottenvåning fanns på templets södra sida. En trappa ledde upp till andra våningen och vidare till den tredje.9När templet var rest lade man på ett tak av bjälkar och klädde alltsammans med paneler av cederträ.10Sidokamrarna runt om templets väggar var fästa vid byggnaden med cederbjälkar. Varje våning var två och en halv meter hög.11Herren sa sedan till Salomo: "Om du gör som jag har sagt och följer alla mina befallningar och instruktioner, så ska jag göra vad jag lovade din far David13och bo bland Israels folk och aldrig överge dem."14Slutligen blev templet färdigt under Salomos personliga överinseende.15Hela insidan, från golv till tak, hade paneler av cederträ, och golven var lagda med brädor av cypressträ.16Det innersta rummet, som var nio meter långt, det allraheligaste, hade också panel från golv till tak av cederträ.17Det stora rummets längd var arton meter.18Panelerna på templets insida var överallt dekorerade med utsirningar i form av rosenknoppar och blommor. Allt var täckt av träpaneler så att man inte någonstans såg stenväggarna.19I det inre rummet ställdes Herrens förbundsark.20Detta inre rum var nio meter långt, nio meter brett och nio meter högt. Dess väggar och tak var belagda med rent guld, liksom altaret av cederträ.21Hela templets interiör belades med rent guld, även det större rummet, det heliga, och Salomo lät göra guldkedjor som sattes för ingången till det allra heligaste.23Därinne placerade Salomo också två keruber, änglar av olivträ, var och en fem meter hög. De stod så att deras utbredda vingar tillsammans räckte från vägg till vägg när de berörde varandra i rummets mitt. Varje vinge var ungefär två och en halv meter lång, och varje ängel mätte alltså fem meter från den ena vingspetsen till den andra. De båda änglarna var exakt lika och överdragna med guld.29Reliefbilder av änglar, palmträd och olika slags blommor var utskurna i väggarna i templets båda rum, och30golven i båda rummen var belagda med guld.31Dörrarna till det inre rummet var av olivträ och femkantiga.32De var smyckade med utsirade keruber, palmträd och blommor, allt överdraget med guld.33På samma sätt gjorde han fyrkantiga dörrkarmar av olivträ till det större rummet.34Det fanns också två vikdörrar av cypressträ försedda med gångjärn.35Änglar, palmträd och blommor var utsirade på alla dörrar, och de var belagda med hamrat guld.36Muren till den inre förgården hade tre lager av huggna stenar och ett lager av huggna bjälkar av cederträ.37Grunden till templet lades i den andra månaden på året under Salomos fjärde regeringsår.38Hela byggnaden var färdig in i minsta detalj i den åttonde månaden under Salomos elfte regeringsår. Det tog alltså sju år att bygga templet.
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