2 Chronicles
Chapter Three
1 ¶ Now Solomon began
to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD
had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the
threshing floor of Ornan the 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 which 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 vestibule that was in front of the sanctuary was twenty cubits long
across the width of the house, and the height was one hundred and twenty. He
overlaid the inside with pure gold.
5 The larger room he paneled 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 Most 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.
9 The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold; and he overlaid the upper
area with gold.
10 ¶ In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim, fashioned by carving,
and overlaid them with gold.
11 The 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;
12 one 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.
13 The wings of these cherubim spanned twenty cubits overall. They stood on
their feet, and they faced inward.
14 And he made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and wove cherubim
into it.
15 Also he made in front of the temple two pillars thirty-five cubits high,
and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
16 He made wreaths of chainwork, as in the inner sanctuary, and put them on
top of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the
wreaths of chainwork.
17 Then he set 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 Jachin, and
the name of the one on the left Boaz.
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