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1 Kings chapter 6

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Four hundred and eighty years after the people of Israel left Egypt, during the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the second month, the month of Ziv, Solomon began work on the Temple.
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Inside it was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
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The entrance room was 15 feet deep and 30 feet wide, as wide as the sanctuary itself.
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The walls of the Temple had openings in them, narrower on the outside than on the inside.
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Against the outside walls, on the sides and the back of the Temple, a three-storied annex was built, each story 7 1/2 feet high.
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Each room in the lowest story was 7 1/2 feet wide, in the middle story 9 feet wide, and in the top story 10 1/2 feet wide. The Temple wall on each floor was thinner than on the floor below, so that the rooms could rest on the wall without having their beams built into it.
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The stones with which the Temple was built had been prepared at the quarry, so that there was no noise made by hammers, axes, or any other iron tools as the Temple was being built.
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The entrance to the lowest story of the annex was on the south side of the Temple, with stairs leading up to the second and third stories.
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So King Solomon finished building the Temple. He put in a ceiling made of beams and boards of cedar.
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The three-storied annex, each story 7 1/2 feet high, was built against the outside walls of the Temple, and was joined to them by cedar beams.
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The LORD said to Solomon,
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"If you obey all my laws and commands, I will do for you what I promised your father David.
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I will live among my people Israel in this Temple that you are building, and I will never abandon them."
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So Solomon finished building the Temple.
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The inside walls were covered with cedar panels from the floor to the ceiling, and the floor was made of pine.
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An inner room, called the Most Holy Place, was built in the rear of the Temple. It was 30 feet long and was partitioned off by cedar boards reaching from the floor to the ceiling.
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The room in front of the Most Holy Place was 60 feet long.
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The cedar panels were decorated with carvings of gourds and flowers; the whole interior was covered with cedar, so that the stones of the walls could not be seen.
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In the rear of the Temple an inner room was built, where the LORD's Covenant Box was to be placed.
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This inner room was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high, all covered with pure gold. The altar was covered with cedar panels.
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The inside of the Temple was covered with gold, and gold chains were placed across the entrance of the inner room, which was also covered with gold.
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The whole interior of the Temple was covered with gold, as well as the altar in the Most Holy Place.
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Two winged creatures were made of olive wood and placed in the Most Holy Place, each one 15 feet tall.
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Both were of the same size and shape. Each had two wings, each wing 7 1/2 feet long, so that the distance from one wing tip to the other was 15 feet.
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(SEE 6:24)
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(SEE 6:24)
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They were placed side by side in the Most Holy Place, so that two of their outstretched wings touched each other in the middle of the room, and the other two wings touched the walls.
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The two winged creatures were covered with gold.
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The walls of the main room and of the inner room were all decorated with carved figures of winged creatures, palm trees, and flowers.
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Even the floor was covered with gold.
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A double door made of olive wood was set in place at the entrance of the Most Holy Place; the top of the doorway was a pointed arch.
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The doors were decorated with carved figures of winged creatures, palm trees, and flowers. The doors, the winged creatures, and the palm trees were covered with gold.
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For the entrance to the main room a rectangular doorframe of olive wood was made.
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There were two folding doors made of pine
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and decorated with carved figures of winged creatures, palm trees, and flowers, which were evenly covered with gold.
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An inner court was built in front of the Temple, enclosed with walls which had one layer of cedar beams for every three layers of stone.
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The foundation of the Temple was laid in the second month, the month of Ziv, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign.
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In the eighth month, the month of Bul, in the eleventh year of Solomon's reign, the Temple was completely finished exactly as it had been planned. It had taken Solomon seven years to build it.

2 Chronicles chapter 3

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King David, Solomon's father, had already prepared a place for the Temple. It was in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to David, at the place which Araunah the Jebusite had used as a threshing place. King Solomon began the construction
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in the second month of the fourth year that he was king.
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The Temple which King Solomon built was 90 feet long and 30 feet wide.
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The entrance room was the full width of the Temple, 30 feet, and was 180 feet high. The inside of the room was overlaid with pure gold.
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The main room was paneled with cedar and overlaid with fine gold, in which were worked designs of palm trees and chain patterns.
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The king decorated the Temple with beautiful precious stones and with gold imported from the land of Parvaim.
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He used the gold to overlay the Temple walls, the rafters, the entryways, and the doors. On the walls the workers carved designs of winged creatures.
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The inner room, called the Most Holy Place, was 30 feet long and 30 feet wide, which was the full width of the Temple. Twenty-five tons of gold were used to cover the walls of the Most Holy Place;
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twenty ounces of gold were used for making nails, and the walls of the upper rooms were also covered with gold.
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The king also had his workers make two winged creatures out of metal, cover them with gold, and place them in the Most Holy Place,
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where they stood side by side facing the entrance. Each had two wings, each wing 7 1/2 feet long, which were spread out so that they touched each other in the center of the room and reached to the wall on either side of the room, stretching across the full width of 30 feet.
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(SEE 3:11)
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(SEE 3:11)
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A curtain for the Most Holy Place was made of linen and of other material, which was dyed blue, purple, and red, with designs of the winged creatures worked into it.
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The king had two columns made, each one 52 feet tall, and placed them in front of the Temple. Each one had a capital 7 1/2 feet tall.
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The tops of the columns were decorated with a design of interwoven chains and one hundred bronze pomegranates.
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The columns were set at the sides of the Temple entrance: the one on the south side was named Jachin and the one on the north side was named Boaz.

Psalm chapter 97

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The LORD is king! Earth, be glad! Rejoice, you islands of the seas!
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Clouds and darkness surround him; he rules with righteousness and justice.
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Fire goes in front of him and burns up his enemies around him.
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His lightning lights up the world; the earth sees it and trembles.
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The hills melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
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The heavens proclaim his righteousness, and all the nations see his glory.
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Everyone who worships idols is put to shame; all the gods bow down before the LORD.
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The people of Zion are glad, and the cities of Judah rejoice because of your judgments, O LORD.
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LORD Almighty, you are ruler of all the earth; you are much greater than all the gods.
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The LORD loves those who hate evil; he protects the lives of his people; he rescues them from the power of the wicked.
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Light shines on the righteous, and gladness on the good.
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All you that are righteous be glad because of what the LORD has done! Remember what the holy God has done, and give thanks to him.

Romans chapter 1

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From Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus and an apostle chosen and called by God to preach his Good News.
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The Good News was promised long ago by God through his prophets, as written in the Holy Scriptures.
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It is about his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: as to his humanity, he was born a descendant of David;
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as to his divine holiness, he was shown with great power to be the Son of God by being raised from death.
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Through him God gave me the privilege of being an apostle for the sake of Christ, in order to lead people of all nations to believe and obey.
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This also includes you who are in Rome, whom God has called to belong to Jesus Christ.
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And so I write to all of you in Rome whom God loves and has called to be his own people: May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.
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First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because the whole world is hearing about your faith.
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God is my witness that what I say is true---the God whom I serve with all my heart by preaching the Good News about his Son. God knows that I remember you
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every time I pray. I ask that God in his good will may at last make it possible for me to visit you now.
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For I want very much to see you, in order to share a spiritual blessing with you to make you strong.
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What I mean is that both you and I will be helped at the same time, you by my faith and I by yours.
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You must remember, my friends, that many times I have planned to visit you, but something has always kept me from doing so. I want to win converts among you also, as I have among other Gentiles.
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For I have an obligation to all peoples, to the civilized and to the savage, to the educated and to the ignorant.
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So then, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who live in Rome.
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I have complete confidence in the gospel; it is God's power to save all who believe, first the Jews and also the Gentiles.
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For the gospel reveals how God puts people right with himself: it is through faith from beginning to end. As the scripture says, "The person who is put right with God through faith shall live."
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God's anger is revealed from heaven against all the sin and evil of the people whose evil ways prevent the truth from being known.
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God punishes them, because what can be known about God is plain to them, for God himself made it plain.
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Ever since God created the world, his invisible qualities, both his eternal power and his divine nature, have been clearly seen; they are perceived in the things that God has made. So those people have no excuse at all!
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They know God, but they do not give him the honor that belongs to him, nor do they thank him. Instead, their thoughts have become complete nonsense, and their empty minds are filled with darkness.
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They say they are wise, but they are fools;
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instead of worshiping the immortal God, they worship images made to look like mortals or birds or animals or reptiles.
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And so God has given those people over to do the filthy things their hearts desire, and they do shameful things with each other.
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They exchange the truth about God for a lie; they worship and serve what God has created instead of the Creator himself, who is to be praised forever! Amen.
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Because they do this, God has given them over to shameful passions. Even the women pervert the natural use of their sex by unnatural acts.
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In the same way the men give up natural sexual relations with women and burn with passion for each other. Men do shameful things with each other, and as a result they bring upon themselves the punishment they deserve for their wrongdoing.
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Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.
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They are filled with all kinds of wickedness, evil, greed, and vice; they are full of jealousy, murder, fighting, deceit, and malice. They gossip
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and speak evil of one another; they are hateful to God, insolent, proud, and boastful; they think of more ways to do evil; they disobey their parents;
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they have no conscience; they do not keep their promises, and they show no kindness or pity for others.
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They know that God's law says that people who live in this way deserve death. Yet, not only do they continue to do these very things, but they even approve of others who do them.

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