2 Chronicles 3:1–9

¹And Solomon beginneth to build the house of Jehovah, in Jerusalem, in the mount of Moriah, where He appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, ²and he beginneth to build in the second day, in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. ³And in these hath Solomon been instructed to build the house of God: The length in cubits by the former measure is sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. ⁴As to the porch that is on the front, the length is by the front of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty, and he overlayeth it within with pure gold. ⁵And the large house he hath covered with fir-trees, and he doth cover it with good gold, and causeth to ascend on it palms and chains, ⁶and he overlayeth the house with precious stone for beauty, and the gold is gold of Parvaim, ⁷and he covereth the house, the beams, the thresholds, and its walls, and its doors, with gold, and hath graved cherubs on the walls. ⁸And he maketh the most holy house: its length is by the front of the breadth of the house twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits, and he covereth it with good gold, to six hundred talents; ⁹and the weight of the nails is fifty shekels of gold, and the upper chambers he hath covered with gold.