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But who is able to build a temple for Him, since even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain Him? Who am I then that I should build a temple for Him except as a place to burn incense before Him?

Also, send me cedar, cypress, and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut the trees of Lebanon. Note that my servants will be with your servants

to prepare logs for me in abundance because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.

Hiram also said: May the Lord God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth, be praised! He gave King David a wise son with insight and understanding, who will build a temple for the Lord and a royal palace for himself.

These are Solomon's foundations for building God's temple: the length was 90 feet, and the width 30 feet.

He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was the gold of Parvaim.

He made two cherubim of sculptured work, for the most holy place, and he overlaid them with gold.

He made 10 basins for washing and he put five on the right and five on the left. The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them, but the reservoir was used by the priests for washing.

He made the courtyard of the priests and the large court, and doors for the court. He overlaid the doors with bronze.

Then Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the work that he was doing for King Solomon in God's temple:

two pillars; the bowls and the capitals on top of the two pillars; the two gratings for covering both bowls of the capitals that were on top of the pillars;

the 400 pomegranates for the two gratings (two rows of pomegranates for each grating covering both capitals' bowls on top of the pillars).

the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all their utensils—Huram-abi made them for King Solomon for the Lord 's temple. All these were made of polished bronze.

So all the work Solomon did for the Lord 's temple was completed. Then Solomon brought the consecrated things of his father David—the silver, the gold, and all the utensils—and put them in the treasuries of God's temple.

The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the Lord with one voice. They raised their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the Lord : For He is good; His faithful love endures forever. The temple, the Lord 's temple, was filled with a cloud.

And because of the cloud, the priests were not able to continue ministering, for the glory of the Lord filled God's temple.

but I have built an exalted temple for You, a place for Your residence forever.

Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a temple for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

However, Yahweh said to my father David, "Since it was your desire to build a temple for My name, you have done well to have this desire.

Yet, you are not the one to build the temple, but your son, your own offspring, will build the temple for My name."