1. In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of Egypt,
   in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv,
   the second month, he began to build the temple of the LORD.
2. The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high.
3. The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple,
   that is twenty cubits, and projected ten cubits from the front of the temple.
4. He made narrow clerestory windows in the temple.
5. Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building,
   in which there were side rooms.
6. The lowest floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits and the third floor seven.
   He made offset ledges around the outside of the temple so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.
7. In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used,
   and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built.
8. The entrance to the lowest floor was on the south side of the temple;
   a stairway led up to the middle level and from there to the third.
9. So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks.
10. And he built the side rooms all along the temple.
   The height of each was five cubits, and they were attached to the temple by beams of cedar.
11. The word of the LORD came to Solomon:
12. "As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees,
   carry out my regulations and keep all my commands and obey them,
   I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David your father.
13. And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel."
14. So Solomon built the temple and completed it.
15. He lined its interior walls with cedar boards,
   paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling,
   and covered the floor of the temple with planks of pine.
16. He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form
   within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
17. The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
18. The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers.
   Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.
19. He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
20. The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high.
   He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
21. Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold,
   and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary,
   which was overlaid with gold.
22. So he overlaid the whole interior with gold.
   He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
23. In the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
24. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long,
   and the other wing five cubits--ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip.
25. The second cherub also measured ten cubits,
   for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape.
26. The height of each cherub was ten cubits.
27. He placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple, with their wings spread out.
   The wing of one cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the other touched the other wall,
   and their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.
28. He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29. On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms,
   he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers.
30. He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.
31. For the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood with five-sided jambs.
32. And on the two olive wood doors he carved cherubim,
   palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with beaten gold.
33. In the same way he made four-sided jambs of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall.
34. He also made two pine doors, each having two leaves that turned in sockets.
35. He carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers on them and overlaid them
   with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.
36. And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.
37. The foundation of the temple of the LORD was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv.
38. In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, the eighth month,
   the temple was finished in all its details according to its specifications.
   He had spent seven years building it.



성전의 식양
하나님의 명하신대로 성전을 지은 솔로몬
솔로몬과 이스라엘은
하나님의 전을 칠년간 지어 드리는데
그들의 가질 수 있는 온 정성을  드려
성전을 준공하고자 한다.

수많은 은금과 백향목 보석들이
성전을 짖는데 사용되어지고
그들의 정성과 노력이 들여진다.
하나님의 전에 그들은 최선의 노력을 기울이고 있는 것이다.

하나님은 그들의 정성과 마음을 보시는 분이시다.
당신의 집은 이 당의 누추한 곳이 아니라
하늘위에 계신 놀라운 영광의 처소이며
이 온 세상의 어디라도
당신이 아니계신곳이 없지만
이스라엘과 함께 하시겠다 말씀하신 하나님은
그들의 연약한 믿음을 보시고
그들을 위하여
이 당위에 당신의 처소를 두시고자 하시는 것이다.

성전은 전적으로 하나님을 위한 곳이 아니라
우리를 위한 하나님의 사랑의 증거일 뿐이다.
하나님이 성전에 갇혀 계시지 않으시나
우리의 연약함을 보시고
성전에서 우리를 만니시마 약속하신다.
우리가 우리의 죄를 인하여
하나님 앞에 나아올 때
하나님은 이 성전에서 기도하고
회개하는 음성을 들으시고
계신곳 하늘에서 우리를 용서하시마 약속하시는 것이다.

하나님은 인간의 연약함으로
하나님을 보고자 워할 때
당신의 집인 성전을 바라보며
이 곳을 통하여 하나님을 경험하고
만날 수 있도록 허락하신 것이다.

지금의 성전은 어떠한가?
현재의 교회는 어떠한가?
하나님께 지어 드리는 성전이 있는가?
하나님의 백성이 모이는 교회가 있을 따름이다.

예수님을 인하여
이 지상의 성전은 무너지지 않았던가?
이 땅위에는 이제 부활하신 예쑤님으로 인하여
우리의 육체가 우리의 삶이
우리의 공동체가
하나님의 전이 되지 않았는가?

그러한 사실을 알면서도
우리는 우리의 눈으로
거룩한 하나님의 전을 보기를 원하지 않는가?
인간은 육체적인 존재임이 틀림이 없다.

눈으로 보여지고
코로 맡아지며
귀로 들려지는 것에 너무 민감하고
그러해야만 믿을 수 있는 존재가 아니던가?