WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:03.140 Ethan: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:03.257 --> 00:00:04.637 Day 200 and 14 00:00:05.064 --> 00:00:09.474 it was in mid-spring in the month of Ziv during the fourth year of 00:00:09.474 --> 00:00:14.034 Solomon's reign that he began to construct the temple of the Lord. 00:00:14.664 --> 00:00:19.614 The, this was 480 years after the people of Israel were rescued from 00:00:19.614 --> 00:00:21.804 their slavery in the land of Egypt. 00:00:22.764 --> 00:00:26.574 The temple that King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet long. 00:00:26.949 --> 00:00:30.039 30 feet wide and 45 feet high. 00:00:31.149 --> 00:00:35.319 The entry room at the front of the temple was 30 feet wide, running 00:00:35.319 --> 00:00:37.389 across the entire width of the temple. 00:00:38.559 --> 00:00:41.949 It projected outward 15 feet from the front of the temple. 00:00:42.789 --> 00:00:46.629 Solomon also made narrowed recessed windows throughout the temple. 00:00:47.769 --> 00:00:52.449 He built a complex of rooms against the outer walls of the temple all the way 00:00:52.454 --> 00:00:54.549 around the sides and rear of the building. 00:00:55.584 --> 00:00:57.714 The complex was three stories high. 00:00:58.134 --> 00:01:01.074 The bottom floor being seven and a half feet wide. 00:01:01.524 --> 00:01:06.564 The second floor nine feet wide, and the top floor 10 and a half feet wide. 00:01:07.854 --> 00:01:11.844 The rooms were connected to the walls of the temple by beams, resting on ledges 00:01:11.844 --> 00:01:17.034 built out from the wall, so the beams were not inserted into the walls themselves. 00:01:18.144 --> 00:01:22.044 The stones used in the construction of the temple were finished at the quarry. 00:01:22.539 --> 00:01:27.759 So there was no sound of hammer, ax, or any other iron tool at the building site. 00:01:28.899 --> 00:01:32.109 The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:37.569 There were winding stairs going up to the second floor and another flight of stairs 00:01:37.569 --> 00:01:39.369 between the second and third floors. 00:01:40.209 --> 00:01:43.989 After completing the temple structure, Solomon put in a ceiling 00:01:43.989 --> 00:01:45.939 made of cedar beams and planks. 00:01:46.569 --> 00:01:51.009 As already stated, he built a complex of rooms along the sides of the building. 00:01:51.564 --> 00:01:54.234 Attached to the temple walls by Cedar Timbers. 00:01:55.044 --> 00:01:58.464 Each story of the complex was seven and a half feet high. 00:01:59.664 --> 00:02:05.424 Then the Lord gave this message to Solomon concerning this temple you are building. 00:02:06.084 --> 00:02:10.314 If you keep all my decrees and regulations and obey all my commands, 00:02:10.944 --> 00:02:14.604 I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David. 00:02:15.444 --> 00:02:19.494 I will live among the Israelites and will never abandon my people. 00:02:19.494 --> 00:02:19.914 Israel. 00:02:21.114 --> 00:02:23.454 So Solomon finished building the temple. 00:02:24.564 --> 00:02:28.944 The entire inside from floor to ceiling was paneled with wood. 00:02:29.754 --> 00:02:34.344 He paneled the walls and ceilings with cedar, and he used planks of Cyprus. 00:02:34.349 --> 00:02:35.214 For the floors. 00:02:36.024 --> 00:02:39.804 He partitioned off an inner sanctuary, the most holy place 00:02:40.404 --> 00:02:41.934 at the far end of the temple. 00:02:42.804 --> 00:02:46.824 It was 30 feet deep and was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling. 00:02:47.604 --> 00:02:52.224 The main room of the temple outside the most holy place was 60 feet long 00:02:53.004 --> 00:02:56.814 Cedar paneling completely covered the stone walls throughout the temple, 00:02:57.204 --> 00:03:01.224 and the paneling was decorated with carvings of gourds and open flowers. 00:03:02.184 --> 00:03:06.384 He prepared the inner sanctuary at the far end of the temple where the Ark of 00:03:06.384 --> 00:03:08.064 the Lord's covenant would be placed. 00:03:08.754 --> 00:03:14.574 This inner sanctuary was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. 00:03:15.459 --> 00:03:18.099 He overlaid the inside with solid gold. 00:03:18.729 --> 00:03:21.129 He also overlaid the altar made of cedar. 00:03:21.909 --> 00:03:26.259 Then Solomon overlaid the rest of the temple's interior with solid gold, 00:03:26.559 --> 00:03:30.699 and he made gold chains to protect the entrance to the most holy place. 00:03:31.569 --> 00:03:36.249 So he finished overlaying the entire temple with gold, including the altar 00:03:36.249 --> 00:03:38.319 that belonged to the most holy place. 00:03:39.279 --> 00:03:41.859 He made two cherubim of wild olive wood. 00:03:42.279 --> 00:03:46.149 Each 15 feet tall and placed them in the inner sanctuary. 00:03:46.989 --> 00:03:51.399 The wingspan of each of the cherubim was 15 feet, each wing 00:03:51.429 --> 00:03:53.289 being seven and a half feet long. 00:03:54.219 --> 00:03:57.309 The two cherubim were identical in shape and size. 00:03:57.669 --> 00:03:59.379 Each was 15 feet tall. 00:04:00.249 --> 00:04:03.729 He placed them side by side in the inner sanctuary of the temple. 00:04:04.629 --> 00:04:08.859 Their outspread wings reached from wall to wall while their inner wings 00:04:08.859 --> 00:04:10.359 touched at the center of the room. 00:04:11.064 --> 00:04:13.344 He overlaid the two cherubim with gold. 00:04:14.454 --> 00:04:18.894 He decorated all the walls of the inner sanctuary and the main room with carvings 00:04:18.894 --> 00:04:21.984 of cherubim, palm trees and open flowers. 00:04:22.674 --> 00:04:25.344 He overlaid the floor in both rooms with gold. 00:04:26.484 --> 00:04:30.834 For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, he made double doors of wild olive 00:04:30.834 --> 00:04:32.874 wood with five-sided doorposts. 00:04:33.534 --> 00:04:36.744 These double doors were decorated with carvings of cherubim, 00:04:37.164 --> 00:04:39.144 palm trees and open flowers. 00:04:40.029 --> 00:04:43.569 The doors, including the decorations of cherubim and palm 00:04:43.569 --> 00:04:45.759 trees, were overlaid with gold. 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:51.909 Then he made four-sided doorposts of wild olive wood for the entrance to the temple. 00:04:53.139 --> 00:04:56.799 There were two folding doors of Cyprus wood, and each door was 00:04:56.799 --> 00:04:58.779 hinged to fold back upon itself. 00:04:59.499 --> 00:05:03.849 These doors were decorated with carvings of cherubim, palm trees and open 00:05:03.849 --> 00:05:07.149 flowers, all overlaid evenly with gold. 00:05:08.349 --> 00:05:11.319 The walls of the inner courtyard were built so that there was one 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:15.129 layer of cedar beams between every three layers of finished stone. 00:05:16.119 --> 00:05:20.739 The foundation of the Lord's temple was laid in mid-spring in the month of Ziv 00:05:21.129 --> 00:05:23.349 during the fourth year of Solomon's reign. 00:05:23.729 --> 00:05:28.959 The entire building was completed in every detail by mid-autumn in the month 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.689 of bull during the 11th year of his reign. 00:05:32.469 --> 00:05:34.719 So it took seven years to build the temple. 00:05:36.219 --> 00:05:41.049 Solomon also built a palace for himself, and it took him 13 years 00:05:41.054 --> 00:05:42.609 to complete the construction. 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:48.129 One of Solomon's buildings was called the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon. 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:54.429 It was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and four five feet high. 00:05:55.479 --> 00:06:00.219 There were four rows of cedar pillars and great cedar beams rested on the pillars. 00:06:00.969 --> 00:06:02.559 The hall had a cedar roof. 00:06:03.474 --> 00:06:07.764 Above the beams on the pillars were 45 side rooms arranged 00:06:07.764 --> 00:06:09.834 in three tiers of 15 each. 00:06:10.494 --> 00:06:14.934 On each end of the long haul were three rows of windows facing each other. 00:06:15.684 --> 00:06:19.764 All the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames and were arranged 00:06:19.769 --> 00:06:22.074 in sets of three facing each other. 00:06:23.154 --> 00:06:29.274 Solomon also built the Hall of Pillars, which was 75 feet long and 45 feet wide. 00:06:29.934 --> 00:06:33.834 There was a porch in front, along with a canopy supported by pillars. 00:06:34.854 --> 00:06:39.294 Solomon also built the throne room known as the Hall of Justice, 00:06:39.594 --> 00:06:41.544 where he sat to hear legal matters. 00:06:42.354 --> 00:06:44.994 It was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling. 00:06:45.864 --> 00:06:50.214 Solomon's living quarters surrounded a courtyard behind this hall, and 00:06:50.214 --> 00:06:51.984 they were constructed the same way. 00:06:53.064 --> 00:06:57.444 He also built similar living quarters for Pharaoh's daughter whom he had married. 00:06:58.659 --> 00:07:03.279 From foundation to eaves, all these buildings were built from huge blocks 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:08.859 of high quality stone cut with saws and trimmed to exact measure on all sides. 00:07:09.909 --> 00:07:15.639 Some of the huge foundation stones were 15 feet long and some were 12 feet long. 00:07:16.509 --> 00:07:20.709 The blocks of high quality stone used in the walls were also cut to measure, 00:07:21.219 --> 00:07:23.229 and cedar beams were also used. 00:07:24.204 --> 00:07:27.594 The walls of the great courtyard were built so that there was one layer 00:07:27.594 --> 00:07:31.884 of cedar beams between every three layers of finished stone, just like 00:07:31.884 --> 00:07:35.514 the walls of the inner courtyard of the Lord's temple with its entry room. 00:07:37.254 --> 00:07:40.104 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:07:40.254 --> 00:07:41.454 Thank you for joining us.