2 Chronicles 3:1–9

Solomon Builds the Temple

3:1–14pp—1Ki 6:1–29

3Then Solomon began to build^z the temple of the Lord^a in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah^ab the Jebusite, the place provided by David. ²He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.^c

³The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide^bd (using the cubit of the old standard). ⁴The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits^c long across the width of the building and twenty^d cubits high.

He overlaid the inside with pure gold. ⁵He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree^e and chain designs. ⁶He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim. ⁷He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim^f on the walls.

⁸He built the Most Holy Place,^g its length corresponding to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talents^e of fine gold. ⁹The gold nails^h weighed fifty shekels.^f He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.