Today’s
Reading : 1Kings 6 – 7 and 1Corinthians 4
(KJV)
1Kings 3
1Ki
6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and
eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt,
in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the
second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
1Ki 6:2 And the house which king Solomon built for
the LORD, the length thereof was
threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits,
and the height thereof thirty cubits.
1Ki 6:3 And the porch before the temple of the house,
twenty cubits was the length thereof,
according to the breadth of the house; and
ten cubits was the breadth thereof
before the house.
1Ki 6:4 And for the house he made windows of narrow
lights.
1Ki 6:5 And against the wall of the house he built
chambers round about, against the walls
of the house round about, both of the
temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
1Ki 6:6 The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round
about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the
house.
1Ki 6:7 And the house, when it was in building, was
built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was
neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of
iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
1Ki 6:8 The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went
up with winding stairs into the middle chamber,
and out of the middle into the third.
1Ki 6:9 So he built the house, and finished it; and
covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
1Ki 6:10 And then
he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on
the house with timber of cedar.
1Ki 6:11 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon,
saying,
1Ki 6:12 Concerning
this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and
execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I
perform my word with thee, which I spoke unto David thy father:
1Ki 6:13 And I will dwell among the children of
Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
1Ki 6:14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
1Ki 6:15 And he built the walls of the house within
with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the
ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the
floor of the house with planks of fir.
1Ki 6:16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of
the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even
for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
1Ki 6:17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
1Ki 6:18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
1Ki 6:19 And the oracle he prepared in the house
within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
1Ki 6:20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in
breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure
gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.
1Ki 6:21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with
pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and
he overlaid it with gold.
1Ki 6:22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold,
until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.
1Ki 6:23 And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive
tree, each ten cubits high.
1Ki 6:24 And five cubits was
the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from
the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
1Ki 6:25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims
were of one measure and one size.
1Ki 6:26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other
cherub.
1Ki 6:27 And he set the cherubims
within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub
touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the
house.
1Ki 6:28 And he overlaid the cherubims
with gold.
1Ki 6:29 And he carved all the walls of the house
round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm
trees and open flowers, within and without.
1Ki 6:30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with
gold, within and without.
1Ki 6:31 And for the entering of the oracle he made
doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were
a fifth part of the wall.
1Ki 6:32 The two doors also were of olive tree; and
he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm
trees and open flowers, and overlaid them
with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and
upon the palm trees.
1Ki 6:33 So also made he for the door of the temple
posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
1Ki 6:34 And the two doors were
of fir tree: the two leaves of the one
door were folding, and the two leaves of
the other door were folding.
1Ki 6:35 And he carved thereon
cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and
covered them with gold fitted upon the
carved work.
1Ki 6:36 And he built the inner court with three rows
of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
1Ki 6:37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the
house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
1Ki 6:38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the
eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and
according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
1Kings 7
1Ki
7:1 But Solomon was building his own house
thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
1Ki 7:2 He built also the house of the forest of
Lebanon; the length thereof was a
hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof
thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the
pillars.
1Ki 7:3 And it
was covered with cedar above upon the
beams, that lay on forty five pillars,
fifteen in a row.
1Ki 7:4 And there
were windows in
three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.
1Ki 7:5 And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in
three ranks.
1Ki 7:6 And he made a porch of pillars; the length
thereof was fifty cubits, and the
breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was
before them: and the other pillars and
the thick beam were before them.
1Ki 7:7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he
might judge, even the porch of judgment:
and it was
covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
1Ki 7:8 And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also a
house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to
wife, like unto this porch.
1Ki 7:9 All these were
of costly stones, according to the
measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the
foundation unto the coping, and so on
the outside toward the great court.
1Ki 7:10 And the foundation was of costly stones,
even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
1Ki 7:11 And above were
costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
1Ki 7:12 And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of
cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the
porch of the house.
1Ki 7:13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out
of Tyre.
1Ki 7:14 He was
a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was
filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass.
And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
1Ki 7:15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen
cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them
about.
1Ki 7:16 And he made two chapiters
of molten brass, to set upon the tops of
the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five
cubits:
1Ki 7:17 And
nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters
which were upon the top of the pillars;
seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
1Ki 7:18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round
about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters
that were upon the top, with
pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
1Ki 7:19 And the chapiters
that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
1Ki 7:20 And the chapiters
upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly
which was by the network: and the
pomegranates were two hundred in rows
round about upon the other chapiter.
1Ki 7:21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the
temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name
thereof Boaz.
1Ki 7:22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars
finished.
1Ki 7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the
one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did
compass it round about.
1Ki 7:24 And under the brim of it round about there were
knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
1Ki 7:25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward
the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the
south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set
above upon them, and all their hinder parts were
inward.
1Ki 7:26 And it was
a handbreadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup,
with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
1Ki 7:27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the
breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
1Ki 7:28 And the work of the bases was on this manner:
they had borders, and the borders were
between the ledges:
1Ki 7:29 And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims:
and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
1Ki 7:30 And every base had four brazen wheels, and
plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters:
under the laver were undersetters
molten, at the side of every addition.
1Ki 7:31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was
a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round
after the work of the base, a cubit and
a half: and also upon the mouth of it were
gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
1Ki 7:32 And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels
were joined
to the base: and the height of a wheel was
a cubit and half a cubit.
1Ki 7:33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their
axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
1Ki 7:34 And there
were four undersetters
to the four corners of one base: and the
undersetters were
of the very base itself.
1Ki 7:35 And in the top of the base was there
a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges
thereof and the borders thereof were of
the same.
1Ki 7:36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and
on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions,
and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round
about.
1Ki 7:37 After this manner
he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
1Ki 7:38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver
contained forty baths: and every laver
was four cubits: and upon every one of
the ten bases one laver.
1Ki 7:39 And he put five bases on the right side of
the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the
right side of the house eastward over against the south.
1Ki 7:40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels,
and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king
Solomon for the house of the LORD:
1Ki 7:41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters
that were on the top of the two pillars;
and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters
which were upon the top of the pillars;
1Ki 7:42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two
networks, even two rows of pomegranates
for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters
that were upon the pillars;
1Ki 7:43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the
bases;
1Ki 7:44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
1Ki 7:45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the
basins: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house
of the LORD, were of bright brass.
1Ki 7:46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast
them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
1Ki 7:47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because
they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
1Ki 7:48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar
of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread
was,
1Ki 7:49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on
the right side, and five on the left,
before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
1Ki 7:50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the
basins, and the spoons, and the censers of
pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most
holy place, and
for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
1Ki 7:51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon
made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David
his father had dedicated; even the
silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the
house of the LORD.
1Corinthians 4
1Co
4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the
ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
1Co 4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a
man be found faithful.
1Co 4:3 But with me it is a very small thing that I
should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
1Co 4:4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not
hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
1Co 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time,
until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of
darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall
every man have praise of God.
1Co 4:6 And these things, brethren, I have in a
figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to
think of men
above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against
another.
1Co 4:7 For who maketh thee
to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not
receive? now if thou didst receive it,
why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
1Co 4:8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have
reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also
might reign with you.
1Co 4:9 For I think that God hath set forth us the
apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto
the world, and to angels, and to men.
1Co 4:10 We are
fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise
in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are
honourable, but we are despised.
1Co 4:11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger,
and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling
place;
1Co 4:12 And labour, working with our own hands: being
reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
1Co 4:13 Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the
filth of the world, and are the offscouring of
all things unto this day.
1Co 4:14 I write not these things to shame you, but as
my beloved sons I warn you.
1Co 4:15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors
in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have
begotten you through the gospel.
1Co 4:16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of
me.
1Co 4:17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy,
who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into
remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every
church.
1Co 4:18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not
come to you.
1Co 4:19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord
will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
1Co 4:20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
1Co 4:21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a
rod, or in love, and in the spirit of
meekness?