2 Chronicles 3:1–8

Solomon Builds the Temple

3 Now 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. 2 And he began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

3 This 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. 4 And 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. 5 fThe larger 5room he gpaneled with cypress which he overlaid with fine gold, and he carved palm trees and chainwork on it. 6 And he decorated the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was gold from Parvaim. 7 He also overlaid the house—the beams and doorposts, its walls and doors—with gold; and he carved cherubim on the walls.

8 And 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.