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And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard the things which thou sentest to me for: I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of cypress.

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

My servants shall bring [ergänzt: them] down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will convey them by sea [ergänzt: in] rafts to 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 as food for his household, and twenty measures of beaten 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, two months at home; and Adoniram was over the levy.

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

And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens, and eighty thousand stone-masons in the mountains;

בָּהָֽר׃ (בָּ) ba. “in the”

besides the overseers whom Solomon had set over the work, three thousand three hundred, who ruled 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 Zif, 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, in front of the temple of the house, was twenty cubits in length, in front of the house broadways, [ergänzt: and] ten cubits was its breadth, in front of the house.

בָּאַמָּ֛ה (בָּ) ba. “by the”

The lowest floor was five cubits broad, and the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for in the [ergänzt: thickness of the wall of] the house he made resets round about outside, that nothing should be fastened 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 being built, was built of stone entirely made ready before it was brought thither; so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was being built.

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

The entrance to the side-chambers of the middle [ergänzt: floor] was in the right side of the house; and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [ergänzt: floor], and out of the middle into the third.

וּבְלוּלִּ֗ים (בְ) ve. “by”

And he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

בָּאֲרָזִֽים׃ (בָּ) ba. “with <the>”

And he built the floors against all the house, five cubits high; and they held to the house by the timbers of cedar.

בַּעֲצֵ֥י (בַּ) ba. “with”

As to this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and practise mine ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them, then will I perform my word as to thee which I spoke 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 to the walls of the roof; he overlaid [ergänzt: them] on the inside with wood, and overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress.

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

And he built twenty cubits of the innermost part of the house, both floor and walls, with boards of cedar; and he built [ergänzt: them] for it within, to [ergänzt: be] the oracle, the most holy place.

בְּצַלְע֣וֹת (בְּ) be. “with”

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

בָּאַמָּ֖ה (בָּ) ba. “by the”

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

בְּתוֹךְ־ (בְּ) be. “in”

and Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold, and shut off the oracle in front with chains of gold, and overlaid it with gold.

בְּרַתּוּק֤וֹת (בְּ) be. “with”

And he made in the oracle two cherubim of olive-wood, 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 of the other cherub.

בָּֽאַמָּ֑ה (בָּֽ) ba. “by the”

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

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