2 Chronicles 3:1–9

Solomon Builds Yahweh’s House

^1aThen Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared ^bon the threshing floor of ¹Ornan the Jebusite.

²Then he began to build on the second day in the second month ¹of the fourth year of his reign.

³Now these are the ¹foundations which ^aSolomon laid for building the house of God. The length in cubits, according to the old standard was ²sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.

⁴And the porch which was in front of the house ^awas as long as the width of the house, ¹20 cubits, and the height 120; and inside he overlaid it with pure gold.

⁵Now he overlaid ^athe ¹main room with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and ²ornamented it with palm trees and chains.

⁶Further, he overlaid the house with precious stones for beauty; and the gold was gold from ¹Parvaim.

^7aHe also covered the house with gold—the beams, the thresholds and its walls and its doors; and he ^bcarved cherubim on the walls.

⁸And he made ^athe ¹room of the Holy of Holies: its length across the width of the house was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits; and he covered it with fine gold, amounting to ²600 talents.

⁹Now the weight of the nails was ¹fifty shekels of gold. He also covered ^athe upper rooms with gold.