2 Chronicles 3:1–17

BUILDING THE TEMPLE

3Then Solomon beganⁿ to build the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah^o where the Lord^A had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. ²He began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. ³These are Solomon’s foundations^C for building God’s temple: the length^D was ninety feet,^E and the width thirty feet. ⁴The portico, which was across the front extending across the width of the temple, was thirty feet wide; its height was thirty feet;^G he overlaid its inner surface with pure gold. ⁵The larger room^H he paneled with cypress wood, overlaid with fine gold, and decorated with palm trees and chains. ⁶He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was the gold of Parvaim. ⁷He overlaid the temple—the beams, the thresholds, its walls and doors—with gold,^p and he carved cherubim on the walls.^q

THE MOST HOLY PLACE

⁸Then he made the most holy place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple, 30 feet, and its width was 30 feet.^r He overlaid it with forty-five thousand pounds^I of fine gold. ⁹The weight of the nails was twenty ounces^J of gold, and he overlaid the ceiling with gold.

¹⁰He made^s two cherubim of sculptured work, for the most holy place, and he overlaid them with gold. ¹¹The overall length of the wings of the cherubim was 30 feet: the wing of one was 7½ feet, touching the wall of the room; its other wing was 7½ feet, touching the wing of the other cherub. ¹²The wing of the other^L cherub was 7½ feet, touching the wall of the room; its other wing was 7½ feet, reaching the wing of the other cherub. ¹³The wingspan of these cherubim was 30 feet. They stood on their feet and faced the larger room.^M

¹⁴He made the curtain of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, and he wove cherubim into it.^a

THE BRONZE PILLARS

¹⁵In front of the temple^b he made two pillars, each 27 feet^A high. The capital on top of each was 7½ feet high. ¹⁶He had made chainwork in the inner sanctuary and also put it on top of the pillars.^c He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork. ¹⁷Then he set up the pillars in front of the sanctuary, one on the right and one on the left. He named the one on the right Jachin^B and the one on the left Boaz.^C