2 Chronicles 3

Solomon Builds the Temple

3Now ^aSolomon began to build the house of the Lord at ^bJerusalem on Mount Moriah, where ¹the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of ^cOrnan ²the Jebusite. ²And he began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

³This is the foundation ^dwhich Solomon laid for building the house of God: The length was sixty cubits (by cubits according to the former measure) and the width twenty cubits. ⁴And the ^evestibule that was in front of ³the sanctuary was twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and the height was ⁴one hundred and twenty. He overlaid the inside with pure gold. ^5fThe larger ⁵room he ^gpaneled with cypress which he overlaid with fine gold, and he carved palm trees and chainwork on it. ⁶And he decorated the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was gold from Parvaim. ⁷He also overlaid the house—the beams and doorposts, its walls and doors—with gold; and he carved cherubim on the walls.

⁸And he made the ^hMost Holy Place. Its length was according to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits. He overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold. ⁹The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold; and he overlaid the upper ⁱarea with gold. ^10jIn the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim, fashioned by carving, and overlaid them with gold. ¹¹The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits in overall length: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, touching the wall of the room, and the other wing was five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherub; ¹²one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, touching the wall of the room, and the other wing also was five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherub. ¹³The wings of these cherubim spanned twenty cubits overall. They stood on their feet, and they faced inward. ¹⁴And he made the ^kveil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and wove cherubim into it.

¹⁵Also he made in front of the ⁶temple ^ltwo pillars ⁷thirty-five cubits ⁸high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. ¹⁶He made wreaths of chainwork, as in the inner sanctuary, and put them on top of the pillars; and he made ^mone hundred pomegranates, and put them on the wreaths of chainwork. ¹⁷Then he ⁿset up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand and the other on the left; he called the name of the one on the right hand ⁹Jachin, and the name of the one on the left ¹Boaz.