I Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 349

5-25 THE MONARCHICAL PERIOD.-—I. KINGS. 6-15 25 as much as he desired, and Solomon paid to Khiram twenty thousand kors of wheat, to provide for his city, and twenty kors of olive oil. Solomon gave this to Khiram year by year. (B.c. 1¤18.) Snlnmmt urmrs a 26 Enuscripiiuu uf ‘@¤z:hmzn. Thus the EVER-1.1vmG gave

Solomon wisdom, as He promised him, and there was peace between Khirem and Soiomou, and they both made a treaty together, King Solomon then levied a conecriptiou from all Israel; and the conscziption was thirty thousand men, whom he sent to Lebanon, by ten thousand a. month, by monthly shifts. They were a month in Lebanon; two mouths at home. And Adoniram was over this conscription. He had also twenty thousand

carriers of loads ; and eighty thousand st0ne—cutters in the hills, besides So1omon’s thirty thousand masons, who were at the works in the plains, and three hundred superin- tendents of the people labouring at the buildings. For the king ordered, and they made large stones; heavy stones for the foundations of the Temple; polished stones. Thus the people of Solomon, and the people of Khiram carved, and planned, and shaped the timber and the stones to build the Temple. (nc. 1012.) @nie of §2gixming the dzmplz. 6 And it was in the four hundred and eightieth year from the coming up of the children of Israel from the land of the Mitzeraim, in his fourth year, in the month of Ziu, the same month of the year as that in which Solomon began to reign over Israel,——·he“began to build the Temple for the Evan- LIVING. Bzsrripiimt of the dzmplz. The Temple that King Solomon

built for the EVER-LIVING was sixty cubits long,1 and twenty wide,2 and thirty cubits high,3 with a· colonnade in front of the body of the Temple of twenty cubits wide * following the Sacred cubit 25 in Eng. :125 ft. = 41 ft. 8 in. Eng. = 61 ft. 8 ln. Eng. = 4: ft. 8 in. Eng. form of the building, and rising ten cubits up the face of the structure. And he made bowed windows for the building above its circuit. He built also around the wall

encircling the whole of the Temple, lodges joined to the wall in regular order, and also made a. verandah around. The lower lodges were five cubits

wide, on a platform six cubits wide! with a third seven cubits widei; for a verandah was formed along the enclosure around the Court, but so as not to disfigure the walls of the Temple. The Temple was itself built of

stone dnished at the quarry; the stonescut, carved, and polished. No iron tool was heard in the construc- tion whilst it was being built. Foldinates with a `latf g gorm were at the right-side of the building, with stairs going up to that platform, and from this platformto a third. Thus the structure was built, and

they completed it by wainscoting the building with planks of cedar. Lastly he built a story over all the

building five cubits in height,7 and covered in the structure with beams and planks of cedar. T hen the word ofthe EVER-LIVING

afterwards came to Solomon saying, ‘About the House which you have built for Me, if you walk according to my lnstitutions, and practise my Decrees, and regard all my Com- mandments, to guide yourself by them, then I will confirm the promise I gave you, which I promised to David your father ; and I will rest in the midst of the Children of Israel, and will not abandon My People of Thus Solomon built the Temple

and finished it. He also built walls around the Temple, with a sheltering verandah of cedar; while the ceiling of the House, as well as its walls, he panelled with that wood; but he laid the floor of the building, and the verandahs, with iir-wood. I0 II I2

¤ ro ft. 5 in. and 12 ft. 6 in. respectively Eng. ° == xo ft. 5in. Eng. 7 ¤ x4 ft. 7 in. These platforms seem; to have been what or broad we now cg,steps leading up to the verandah, and the od translators, not being accustomed to such, sadly confused their versions.-··F. F. 349