. Stories from the Hebrew . s he made Solomon,his son, king of Israel. « David had been a manof war, yet during the yearsthat he was warring withother nations he had preparedj§jjBj||lW--~* much material to build a temple to theLord. He had an hundred thousandtalents of gold, a thousand thousandtalents of silver, brass and iron without weight, tim-ber also, and stone in abundance. These he gave toSolomon and told him to begin the temple. He toldSolomon to be strong and of good courage, and do he gave him the pattern of the porch, and of thetreasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers,
. Stories from the Hebrew . s he made Solomon,his son, king of Israel. « David had been a manof war, yet during the yearsthat he was warring withother nations he had preparedj§jjBj||lW--~* much material to build a temple to theLord. He had an hundred thousandtalents of gold, a thousand thousandtalents of silver, brass and iron without weight, tim-ber also, and stone in abundance. These he gave toSolomon and told him to begin the temple. He toldSolomon to be strong and of good courage, and do he gave him the pattern of the porch, and of thetreasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers, and of theinner parlors, and of the place of the mercy seat. Hegave of gold by weight for the candlesticks of gold, andfor the lamps of gold, and for the tables of shew-bread ;and pure gold for the flesh-hooks, and for the goldenbasins. He gave refined gold by weight for the altarof incense, and for the chariot of the cherubim, thatspread out their wings and covered the ark of the of the Lord. CO o ro^o zco Hm 2. SOLOMON IOi He prepared gold for the things to be made of gold,and silver for the things to be made of silver, and brassfor the things of brass, and iron for the things of iron,and wood for the things of wood ; also onyx-stones andall manner of precious stones and marble in great abun-dance. Of the gold of Ophir1 he gave three thousandtalents, and seven thousand talents of refined silver tooverlay the walls of the temple. All this did Davidgive to Solomon, who began to build the house of theLord at Jerusalem in Mount Moriah2 in the secondday of the second month, in the fourth year of hisreign. Solomon employed seventy thousand men to bearburdens, and eighty thousand men to hew in themountains, and thirty-six hundred men to overseethem. He sent to Hiram, King of Tyre,3 for cedar-trees, fir-trees and algum-trees out of Lebanon,4 whichwere brought in floats by sea to Joppa,5 and thencecarried to Jerusalem. The length of the temple was sixty cubits, the heightt
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