I Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 350

at tha back of the House as a. verandah, of cedar, from the Boot to the height of the walls. He built it for himself, as a Lecture Hall to discuss Philosophy with Philosophers. And this building was forty cubits from the Temple. The inside of the building was of cedar, covered with running foliage and open flowers. The whole was of cedar; no stone was used. And in the interior of the Temple

he constructed a Recess in which to place the Ark of the Covenant of the EVER-LIVING. And the surface of the Recess was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits broad, and was surmounted by a railing of cedar plated with gold. Solomon also protected the House

and its top with a golden railing, and formed golden chains before the Recess, and covered them with gold. 22 He also covered the whole of the Temple with gold to the top. All the House and all the Altar, that was opposite the Recess, were plated with gold. 26 And he made for the Recess two

Kerubs of olive-wood, ten cubits high, with wings of Eve cubits for the one Kerub, and wings of Eve cubits for the other Kerub,—-ten cubits from the dip of one’s wings to the dip of the other’s wings. And the second Kerub was ten cubits from the first. The shape of both was the same. The height of each Kerub was ten cubits,——both Kerubs were the same. He placed the Kerubs inside the building, and the Kerubs’ wings wereextended. The wings of the one extended from the wall, and the wings of the other Kerub extended from the other wall ;—so one’s wings touched the other’s wings at the rniddlemof

28 the hall, wing touching wing. The Kerubs were also covered with gold;

29 and all round the walls of the hall were carved sculptures, with statues of Kerubs and pa1m·trees, and open flowers, for windows and doors. 3o The floor ofthehall was also plated with goldpwith the windows and doors. 1 Vv. 15-23. My translation of this very Ecult passage is totally different in purport

to that usually given, but I believe it to be he correct one; as it is self-consistent and does not contradict other portions of the ` record, as the current versions do.-F. F PERIOD.—I. KINGS. 7--8 The door of the Recess was made 3r of two leaves of olive-wood with four strong posts; the two leaves were of 32 olive—wood, with Kerubs, and palm- trees, and roses carved upon them; with gilding spread over the Kerubs, and palm·trees, and roses. The door-posts of the Temple were 33 made of olive-wood squared, with two leaves of pine·wood. The leaves 34 of the first were double, on two rollers, and the second door was double on two rollers,.with carvings 35 of Kerubs, and pa1m—trees, and roses, and plates of gold, with skilful portraitures. He also built an Outer Court oppo·· 36 site the south triangle,with colonnades of cut stone, and colonnades of carved cedar. He began the structure in his 37 fourth year, in the month Ziu, and finished the House in his eleventh year, in the month Bul (that is the eighth month), with all its appliances I`hus it was seven years in building. (B. c. roo5.) §¤l¤mmt lmilhs mtmzrmts Qilulacss. But Solomon was thirteen years 7 building his own Palace, and com- pleting all his palaces, and building 2 the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon. It was a hundred cubits long, and fifty cubits wide, and with towers of thirty cubits at the corners; with 3 colonnades of cedar, and cedar beams upon the pillars, with a cedar ceiling over the verandahs, which were supported upon forty·five pillars, fifteen in a row, with three rows of 4 copings, and window above window for three stories; and all the doors 5 and door—posts had squared copings; and in the front, window above window . for three stories. He also made a colonnade of fifty 6 cubits long, and thirty cubits wide, with a hall before it, with columns and an awning before them. Beside 7 the Throne-room, where he appointed a hall to deliver judgments, which was celled with cedar, plank to plank. Beside this palace, where he 8 resided, a court was behind the Palatial·ha1l where experiments were made. A house was also built for the daughter of Pharoh, whom Solo- man had married, similar to the Hall of Experiment 350