2 Chronicles 3

1 Then Solomon began building the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had provided—the former threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Then Solomon began to build the LORD’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2 Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in his fourth year as king.

He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

3 The size of the foundation Solomon laid for the Temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, (according to the old cubit measurement).

Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of God’s house: the length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.

4 The front porch that ran across the width of the Temple was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He covered the inside of the porch with pure gold.

The porch that was in front, its length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

5 He paneled the main room with cypress overlaid with fine gold, with images of palm trees and chains.

He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.

6 He decorated the Temple with beautiful gems, and with gold he imported from Parvaim.

He decorated the house with precious stones for beauty. The gold was gold from Parvaim.

7 He covered the beams, thresholds, walls, and doors of the Temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold, and engraved cherubim on the walls.

8 He made the room of the Most Holy Place to correspond with the width of the Temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He covered the interior with six hundred talents of fine gold.

He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

9 The weight of the nails was one shekel for every fifty shekels of gold.

The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

10 He made for the Most Holy Place two wooden cherubim covered with gold.

In the most holy place he made two cherubim by carving, and they overlaid them with gold.

11 The wingspan of the cherubim together was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched one Temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, and touched the second cherub.

The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

12 In similar fashion, one wing of the second cherub was five cubits long and touched one Temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, and touched the first cherub.

The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, joining to the wing of the other cherub.

13 So the wingspan of these cherubim together was twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main room.

The wings of these cherubim spread themselves out twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, and their faces were towards the house.

14 He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson embroidery on fine linen, with images of cherubim on it.

He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim.

15 He made two columns for the front of the Temple, thirty-five cubits, each having a capital five cubits high.

Also he made before the house two pillars thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

16 He made chains like in the Most Holy Place and he placed them on top of the columns. He also made one hundred ornamental pomegranates and attached them to each chain.

He made chains in the inner sanctuary, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

17 He set up the columns in front of the Temple, one on the south, and one on the north. The column on the south he named Jachin, and the column on the north he named Boaz.

He set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.