2 Chronicles 3:1–9

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.