H9005–/ל–l

(And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

לֵאמֹֽר׃ (לֵ) le. “<to>”

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.

לָלֶ֣כֶת (לָ) la. “to”

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.

לוֹ֙ (ל) l “for <the>”לִדְבִ֔יר (לִ) li “to”לְקֹ֖דֶשׁ (לְ) le. “to”

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

לִפְנָֽי׃ (לִ) li “<to>”

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.

לְתִתֵּ֣ן (לְ) le. “to”

And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold.

וְלִפְנֵ֣י (לִ) li “<to>”

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.

לִפְנֵ֣י (לִ) li “<to>”

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).

לַדְּבִ֖יר (לַ) la. “[belonged] to the”

The two winged ones were ten cubits high, of the same size and form.

לִשְׁנֵ֥י (לִ) li “[belonged] to”

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

מִלִּפְנִ֖ים (לִּ) li “to”וְלַחִיצֽוֹן׃ (לַ) la. “to the”

And the floor of the house was covered with gold, inside and out.

לִפְנִ֖ימָה (לִ) li “to”וְלַחִיצֽוֹן׃ (לַ) la. “to the”

Then he made pillars of olive-wood for the way into the Temple; the pillars were square:

לְפֶ֥תַח (לְ) le. “for”

And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the building of the house was complete in every detail, as it had been designed. So he was seven years building it.

לְכָל־ (לְ) le. “to”וּלְכָל־ (לְ) le. “to”

And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same way. And then he made a house like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken as his wife.

לָֽאוּלָ֔ם (לָֽ) la. “to the”לְבַת־ (לְ) le. “for”

Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.

וּמִלְמַ֗עְלָה (לְ) l. “to”

The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.

וְלַחֲצַ֧ר (לַ) la. “to”וּלְאֻלָ֥ם (לְ) le. “to”

He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; he was full of wisdom and knowledge and an expert worker in brass. He came to King Solomon and did all his work for him.

לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת (לַ) la. “to”

And he made the two crowns to be put on the tops of the pillars, of brass made soft in the fire; the crowns were five cubits high.

לָתֵ֛ת (לָ) la. “to”

There were nets of open-work for the crowns on the tops of the pillars, a net of open-work for one and a net of open-work for the other.

לַכֹּ֣תָרֹ֔ת (לַ) la. “[belonged] to the”לַכֹּתֶ֣רֶת (לַ) la. “for the”לַכֹּתֶ֥רֶת (לַ) la. “for the”

And he made ornaments of apples; and two lines of apples all round over the network, covering the crowns of the pillars, the two crowns in the same way.

לְכַסּ֤וֹת (לְ) le. “to”לַכֹּתֶ֖רֶת (לַ) la. “for the”

And there were crowns on the two pillars near the round part by the network, and there were two hundred apples in lines round every crown.

מִלְּעֻמַּ֣ת (לְּ) le. “to”לְעֵ֣בֶר (לְ) le. “[was] to”

He put up the pillars at the doorway of the Temple, naming the one on the right Jachin, and that on the left Boaz.

לְאֻלָ֖ם (לְ) le. “of”

And under the edge of it, circling it all round for ten cubits, were two lines of flower buds, made together with it from liquid metal.

לִשְׂפָת֤וֹ׀ (לִ) li “to”

It was supported on twelve oxen, with their back parts turned to the middle of it, three of them facing to the north, three to the west, three to the south, and three to the east; the vessel was resting on top of them.

מִלְמָ֑עְלָה (לְ) l. “to”

And the bases were made in this way; their sides were square, fixed in a framework;

לָהֶ֑ם (לָ) la. “[belonged] to <the>”