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Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard [supplied: the message] which you have sent to me: I will do all your 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 to the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall receive them; and you shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.

בַּיָּם֙ (בַּ) ba “on the”

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”

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 forced labor.

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

Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;

בָּהָֽר׃ (בָּ) ba. “in the”

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

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

It happened 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 Yahweh.

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

The porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length of it, according to the breadth of the house; [supplied: and] ten cubits was the breadth of it 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”

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>”

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 you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

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

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

בְּת֖וֹךְ (בְּ) be. “in”

He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to 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”

He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to 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”

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

בָּאַמָּ֖ה (בָּ) ba. “by the”

He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.

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”

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

בַּדְּבִ֔יר (בַּ) ba. “in the”

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”

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 Yahweh laid, in the month Ziv.

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