H1004B–בַּ֫יִת–ba.yit

And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.

בַּ֔יִת Ba.yit “a house”הַבַּ֖יִת (בַּ֖יִת) Ba.yit “house”

And sent them to Lebanon in bands of ten thousand every month: for a month they were working in Lebanon and for two months in their country, and Adoniram was in control of them.

בְּבֵית֑וֹ (בֵית֑) vei.T “home”

By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.

הַבָּ֖יִת (בָּ֖יִת) Ba.yit “house”

Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

הַבָּֽיִת׃ (בָּֽיִת) Ba.yit “house”

The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

וְהַבַּ֗יִת (בַּ֗יִת) Ba.yit “house”

The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.

הַבַּ֔יִת (בַּ֔יִת) Ba.yit “house”הַבָּ֑יִת (בָּ֑יִת) Ba.yit “house”הַבָּֽיִת׃ (בָּֽיִת) Ba.yit “house”

And for the house he made windows, with network across.

לַבָּ֔יִת (בָּ֔יִת) Ba.yit “house”

And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:

הַבַּ֤יִת (בַּ֤יִת) Ba.yit “house”הַבַּ֙יִת֙ (בַּ֙יִת֙) Ba.yit “house”

The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the hou

לַבַּ֤יִת (בַּ֤יִת) Ba.yit “house”הַבָּֽיִת׃ (בָּֽיִת) Ba.yit “house”

(And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out; there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house.)

וְהַבַּ֙יִת֙ (בַּ֙יִת֙) Ba.yit “house”בַּבַּ֖יִת (בַּ֖יִת) Ba.yit “house”

The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third.

הַבַּ֖יִת (בַּ֖יִת) Ba.yit “house”

So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.

הַבַּ֖יִת (בַּ֖יִת) Ba.yit “house”הַבַּ֙יִת֙ (בַּ֙יִת֙) Ba.yit “house”

And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.

הַבַּ֔יִת (בַּ֔יִת) Ba.yit “house”הַבַּ֖יִת (בַּ֖יִת) Ba.yit “house”

About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father.

הַבַּ֨יִת (בַּ֨יִת) Ba.yit “house”

So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)

הַבַּ֖יִת (בַּ֖יִת) Ba.yit “house”

The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood.

הַבַּ֤יִת (בַּ֤יִת) Ba.yit “house”מִבַּ֙יְתָה֙ (בַּ֙יְתָ) Bay.ta “inside”הַבַּ֙יִת֙ (בַּ֙יִת֙) Ba.yit “house”מִבָּ֑יִת (בָּ֑יִת) Ba.yit “inside”הַבַּ֖יִת (בַּ֖יִת) Ba.yit “house”

And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

הַבַּ֙יִת֙ (בַּ֙יִת֙) Ba.yit “house”מִבַּ֣יִת (בַּ֣יִת) Ba.yit “inside”

And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.

הַבָּ֑יִת (בָּ֑יִת) Ba.yit “house”

(All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)

הַבַּ֙יִת֙ (בַּ֙יִת֙) Ba.yit “house”

And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.

הַבַּ֛יִת (בַּ֛יִת) Ba.yit “house”

Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front of the inmost room, which itself was covered with gold.

הַבַּ֛יִת (בַּ֛יִת) Ba.yit “house”

Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely (and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold).

הַבַּ֛יִת (בַּ֛יִת) Ba.yit “house”הַבָּ֑יִת (בָּ֑יִת) Ba.yit “house”

These were placed inside the inner house, their outstretched wings touching the walls of the house, one touching one wall and one the other, while their other wings were touching in the middle.

הַבַּ֣יִת (בַּ֣יִת) Ba.yit “house”הַבַּ֔יִת (בַּ֔יִת) Ba.yit “house”

And all the walls of the house inside and out were ornamented with forms of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers.

הַבַּ֜יִת (בַּ֜יִת) Ba.yit “house”

Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.

בֵּיתוֹ֙ (בֵּית) bei.T “own house”בֵּיתֽוֹ׃ (בֵּיתֽ) bei.T “house”