¹Solomon began to build the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared to his father David. There David had prepared the site on the threshing floor^aof Ornan the Jebusite. ²He began to build on the second day in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

³This is how Solomon laid the foundation to build God’s temple. It was 90 feet long and 30 feet wide. (They used the old standard measurement.) ⁴The entrance hall in front of ⸤the main room⸥ was 30 feet wide (the same as the width of the temple) and 30 feet high. He covered its inside walls with pure gold. ⁵He paneled the larger building with cypress, overlaid it with fine gold, and decorated it with ⸤designs in the form of⸥ palm trees and chains. ⁶He covered the building with gems to beautify it and used gold from Parvaim. ⁷He also overlaid the building, the rafters, the threshold, the walls, and the doors with gold, and he carved angels^binto the walls.

⁸He made the most holy place. It was as long as the temple was wide, 30 feet long. It was also 30 feet wide. He overlaid it with 45,000 pounds of fine gold. ⁹The gold nails weighed 20 ounces. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

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Footnotes

a 3:1 A threshing floor is an outdoor area where grain is separated from its husks.
b 3:7 Or “cherubim.”