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 began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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

And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

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).

Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

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 porch that was before [the house], the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

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

And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm trees and chains:

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

And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: 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.

He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubim on the walls.

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 house; the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

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

And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

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

And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid 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.

And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one [cherub] was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was [likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

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 the wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits [also], joining to the wing of the other cherub.

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

The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward 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 crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.

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

Also he made before the house two pillars, of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

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 in the oracle, and put [them] on the tops of the pillars; and he made an hundred pomegranates, and put them 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.

And he set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.