2 Chronicles 3

Chapter 3

The Temple Construction in Jerusalem

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

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

Dimensions and Materials of the Temple

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

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

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

⁶Further, he ¹adorned the house with precious stones; and the gold was gold from ²Parvaim.

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

⁸Now 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 overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to 600 talents.

⁹The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid ^athe upper rooms with gold.

^10aThen he made two ¹sculptured cherubim in the room of the holy of holies and overlaid them with gold.

¹¹The wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits; the wing of one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub.

¹²The wing of the other cherub, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house; and its other wing of five cubits was attached to the wing of the ¹first cherub.

¹³The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits, and they stood on their feet ¹facing the main room.

^14aHe made the veil of violet, purple, crimson and fine linen, and he worked cherubim on it.

^15aHe also made two pillars for the front of the house, thirty-five cubits ¹high, and the capital on the top of each was five cubits.

¹⁶He made chains in the inner sanctuary and placed them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates and placed them on the chains.

^17aHe erected the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right and the other on the left, and named the one on the right Jachin and the one on the left Boaz.