71 Now when Solomon had finished praying , fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices , and the glory of the Lord filled the house . 2 The priests could not enter into the house of the Lord because the glory of the Lord filled the Lord'S house . 3 All the sons of Israel , seeing the fire come down and the glory of the Lord upon the house , bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground , and they worshiped and gave praise to the Lord , saying, " Truly He is good , truly His lovingkindness is everlasting ." 4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the Lord . 5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 e e oxen and 120,000 e e sheep . Thus the king and all the people dedicated the house of God . 6 The priests stood at their posts , and the Levites also, with the instruments of music to the Lord , which King David had made for giving praise to the Lord -"for His lovingkindness is everlasting "-whenever he gave praise by their means , while the priests on the other side blew trumpets ; and all Israel was standing . 7 Then Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord , for there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to contain the burnt offering , the grain offering and the fat . 8 So Solomon observed the feast at that time for seven days , and all Israel with him, a very great assembly who came from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt . 9 On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly , for the dedication of the altar they observed seven days and the feast seven days . 10 Then on the twenty-third e day of the seventh month he sent the people to their tents , rejoicing and happy of heart because of the goodness that the Lord had shown to David and to Solomon and to His people Israel .
11 Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the king's palace , and successfully completed all that he had planned e e on doing in the house of the Lord and in his palace .
12 Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice . 13 " If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain , or if I command the locust to devour the land , or if I send pestilence among My people , 14 and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways , then I will hear from heaven , will forgive their sin and will heal their land . 15 " Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place . 16 "For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that My name may be there forever e , and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually e . 17 "As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked , even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My ordinances , 18 then I will establish your royal throne as I covenanted with your father David , saying , ' You shall not lack a man to be ruler in Israel .' 19 " But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, 20 then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples . 21 "As for this house , which was exalted , everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say , ' Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house ?' 22 "And they will say , 'Because e they forsook the Lord , the God of their fathers who brought them from the land of Egypt , and they adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them; therefore e He has brought all this adversity on them.' "
31 Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah , where the Lord had appeared to his father David , at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite . 2 He began to build on the second day in the second month of the fourth year of his reign . 3 Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for building the house of God . The length in cubits , according to the old standard was sixty cubits , and the width twenty cubits . 4 The porch which was in front of the house was as long as the width of the house , twenty cubits , and the height 120 e ; and inside e he overlaid it with pure gold . 5 He overlaid the main room with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold , and ornamented e it with palm trees and chains . 6 Further, he adorned the house with precious stones ; and the gold was gold from Parvaim . 7 He also overlaid the house with gold -the beams , the thresholds and its walls and its doors ; and he carved cherubim on the walls . 8 Now he made the room of the holy of holies : its length across e the width of the house was twenty cubits , and its width was twenty cubits ; and he overlaid it with fine gold , amounting to 600 e talents . 9 The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold . He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold .
10 Then he made two sculptured e cherubim in the room of the holy of holies and overlaid them with gold . 11 The wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits ; the wing of one , of five cubits , touched the wall of the house , and its other wing , of five cubits , touched the wing of the other cherub . 12 The wing of the other cherub , of five cubits , touched the wall of the house ; and its other wing of five cubits was attached to the wing of the first cherub . 13 The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits , and they stood on their feet facing the main room . 14 He made the veil of violet , purple , crimson and fine linen , and he worked cherubim on it.
15 He also made two pillars for the front of the house , thirty-five e cubits high , and the capital on the top of each was five cubits . 16 He made chains in the inner sanctuary and placed them on the tops of the pillars ; and he made one hundred pomegranates and placed them on the chains . 17 He erected the pillars in front of the temple , one on the right and the other on the left , and named e the one on the right Jachin and the one on the left Boaz .
