2 Chronicles 3

1 Then Solomon began building the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had provided—the former threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2 Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in his fourth year as king.

The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.

3 The size of the foundation Solomon laid for the Temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, (according to the old cubit measurement).

And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

4 The front porch that ran across the width of the Temple was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He covered the inside of the porch with pure gold.

And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.

5 He paneled the main room with cypress overlaid with fine gold, with images of palm trees and chains.

And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.

6 He decorated the Temple with beautiful gems, and with gold he imported from Parvaim.

And the house was made beautiful with stones of great value, and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

7 He covered the beams, thresholds, walls, and doors of the Temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

All the house was plated with gold, the supports, the steps, the walls and the doors; and the walls were ornamented with designs of winged ones.

8 He made the room of the Most Holy Place to correspond with the width of the Temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He covered the interior with six hundred talents of fine gold.

And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.

9 The weight of the nails was one shekel for every fifty shekels of gold.

And fifty shekels weight of gold was used for the nails. He had all the higher rooms plated with gold.

10 He made for the Most Holy Place two wooden cherubim covered with gold.

And in the most holy place he made images of two winged beings, covering them with gold.

11 The wingspan of the cherubim together was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched one Temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, and touched the second cherub.

Their outstretched wings were twenty cubits across; one wing, five cubits long, touching the wall of the house, and the other, of the same size, meeting the wing of the other winged one.

12 In similar fashion, one wing of the second cherub was five cubits long and touched one Temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, and touched the first cherub.

And in the same way, the wings of the other, five cubits long, were stretched out, one touching the wall and the other meeting the wing of the first winged one.

13 So the wingspan of these cherubim together was twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main room.

Their outstretched wings were twenty cubits across; they were placed upright on their feet, facing the inner part of the house.

14 He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson embroidery on fine linen, with images of cherubim on it.

And he made the veil of blue and purple and red, of the best linen, worked with winged ones.

15 He made two columns for the front of the Temple, thirty-five cubits, each having a capital five cubits high.

And in front of the house he made two pillars, thirty-five cubits high, with crowns on the tops of them, five cubits high.

16 He made chains like in the Most Holy Place and he placed them on top of the columns. He also made one hundred ornamental pomegranates and attached them to each chain.

And he made chains, like neck ornaments, and put them on the tops of the pillars, and a hundred apples on the chains.

17 He set up the columns in front of the Temple, one on the south, and one on the north. The column on the south he named Jachin, and the column on the north he named Boaz.

He put up the pillars in front of the Temple, one on the right side and one on the left, naming the one on the right Jachin and that on the left Boaz.