2 Chronicles 3–5

3^*Then ^aSolomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount ^bMoriah, ^||where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of ^c||Ornan the Jebusite. ²And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

³Now these are the things wherein Solomon was ^†instructed for the building of the house of God. ^dThe length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. ⁴And the ^eporch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold. ⁵And ^fthe greater house he cieled with ^gfir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon ^hpalm trees and ⁱchains. ⁶And he ^†garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim. ⁷He overlaid also the house, the ^kbeams, the ^lposts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and ^hgraved cherubims on the walls. ⁸And he made the ^mmost holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and ⁿhe overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. ⁹And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the ^oupper chambers with gold.

¹⁰And in the ^mmost holy house he made ^ptwo cherubims ^||of image work, and overlaid them with gold. ¹¹And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one 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. ¹²And one 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. ¹³The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were ^||inward.

¹⁴And he made the ^pvail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and ^qfine linen, and ^†wrought cherubims thereon. ^15rAlso he made before the house two pillars of ^sthirty and five cubits ^†high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. ¹⁶And he made chains, as in ^tthe oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made ^uan hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. ¹⁷And he reared 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.

4Moreover he made ^aan altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

^2bAlso he made a molten sea of ten cubits ^†from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. ³And under it was the similitude of ^coxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast. ⁴It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward. ⁵And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, ^||with flowers of lilies; and it received and held ^dthree thousand baths.

⁶He made also ^eten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: ^†such things as they offered for the burnt offering they ^fwashed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in. ⁷And he made ^gten candlesticks of gold ^haccording to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left. ⁸He made also ⁱten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred ^||basons of gold. ⁹Furthermore he made ^jthe court of the priests, and ^kthe great court, and doors for ^kthe court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass. ¹⁰And ^lhe set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.

^11mAnd Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the ^||basons. And Huram ^†finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God; ¹²To wit, the two pillars, and ⁿthe pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars; ¹³And ^ofour hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the ⁿtwo pommels of the chapiters which were ^†upon the pillars. ¹⁴He made also ^pbases, and ^||lavers made he upon the bases; ¹⁵One sea, and twelve oxen under it. ¹⁶The pots also, and the shovels, and ^qthe fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did ^rHuram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the Lord of ^†bright brass. ¹⁷In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the ^†clay ground between Succoth and ^sZeredathah. ¹⁸Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for ^tthe weight of the brass could not be found out. ¹⁹And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and ^uthe tables whereon the shewbread was set; ²⁰Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn ^wafter the manner before the ^xoracle, of ^ypure gold; ²¹And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that ^†perfect gold; ²²And the snuffers, and the ^||basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of ^ypure gold: and the ^zentry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.

5^*Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the Lord was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.

^2*aThen Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion. ³Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month. ⁴And all the elders of Israel came; and ^bthe Levites took up the ark. ⁵And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests ^cand the Levites bring up. ⁶Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude. ⁷And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims: ⁸For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above. ⁹And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen ^dfrom the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And ^||there it is unto this day. ¹⁰There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, ^||when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt. ^11eAnd it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were ^†present were sanctified, and did not then wait by ^fcourse: ¹²Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them ^gof Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in ^hwhite linen, having ⁱcymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty ^kpriests sounding with trumpets:) ¹³It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with ^lthe trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the Lord, ^msaying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: ^ethat then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord; ¹⁴ⁿSo that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.