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And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard [supplied: the message] which thou hast sent unto me: I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.

בַּעֲצֵ֥י (בַּ) ba. “in”וּבַעֲצֵ֥י (בַ) va. “in”

My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and thou shalt receive them; and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.

בַּיָּם֙ (בַּ) ba “on the”

And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.

בְשָׁנָֽה׃ (בְ) ve. “in”

And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to taskwork.

בַּחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ (בַּ) ba. “in the”בַלְּבָנ֔וֹן (בַ) va. “in <the>”בְּבֵית֑וֹ (בְּ) be. “in”

And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;

בָּהָֽר׃ (בָּ) ba. “in the”

besides Solomon's chief officers that were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

בָּעָ֔ם (בָּ) ba. “over the”בַּמְּלָאכָֽה׃ (בַּ) ba. “<in> the”

And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Jehovah.

בִשְׁמוֹנִ֣ים (בִ) vi “in”בַּשָּׁנָ֨ה (בַּ) ba. “in the”בְּחֹ֣דֶשׁ (בְּ) be. “in”

And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [supplied: and] ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.

בָּאַמָּ֛ה (בָּ) ba. “by the”

The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [supplied: in the wall] of the house round about, that [supplied: the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.

בָּאַמָּ֣ה (בָּ) ba. “by the”בָּֽאַמָּה֙ (בָּֽ) ba. “by the”בָּאַמָּ֖ה (בָּ) ba. “by the”בְּקִֽירוֹת־ (בְּ) be. “in”

And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

בְּהִבָּ֣נֹת֔וֹ (בְּ) be. “when”בַּבַּ֖יִת (בַּ) ba. “in the”בְּהִבָּנֹתֽוֹ׃ (בְּ) be. “when”

The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [supplied: story], and out of the middle into the third.

וּבְלוּלִּ֗ים (בְ) ve. “by”

So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

בָּאֲרָזִֽים׃ (בָּ) ba. “with <the>”

And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

בַּעֲצֵ֥י (בַּ) ba. “with”

Concerning this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute mine ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father.

בְּחֻקֹּתַי֙ (בְּ) be. “in”בָּהֶ֑ם (בָּ) ba. “in <the>”

And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

בְּת֖וֹךְ (בְּ) be. “in”

And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house unto the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.

בְּצַלְע֣וֹת (בְּ) be. “with”בְּצַלְע֥וֹת (בְּ) be. “with”

And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor unto the walls [supplied: of the ceiling]: he built [supplied: them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.

בְּצַלְע֣וֹת (בְּ) be. “with”

And the house, that is, the temple before [supplied: the oracle], was forty cubits [supplied: long].

בָּאַמָּ֖ה (בָּ) ba. “by the”

And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.

בְּתוֹךְ־ (בְּ) be. “in”

So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.

בְּרַתּוּק֤וֹת (בְּ) be. “with”

And in the oracle he made two cherubim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high.

בַּדְּבִ֔יר (בַּ) ba. “in the”

And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.

בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה (בָּֽ) ba. “by the”

The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

בָּֽאַמָּ֑ה (בָּֽ) ba. “by the”

And he set the cherubim within the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.

בְּת֣וֹךְ׀ (בְּ) be. “in”בַּקִּ֔יר (בַּ) ba. “<in> the”בַּקִּ֣יר (בַּ) ba. “<in> the”

In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Jehovah laid, in the month Ziv.

בַּשָּׁנָה֙ (בַּ) ba. “in the”בְּיֶ֖רַח (בְּ) be. “in”