2 Chronicles 3

¹ Solomon began building the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to David his father, at the place David had prepared, at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

² He began building on the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

³ These are the measurements Solomon set for building the house of God: its length, in the old standard cubits, was sixty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits.

⁴ The portico in front was twenty cubits long, across the width of the house, and one hundred and twenty cubits high. Inside, Solomon overlaid it with pure gold.

⁵ He paneled the great hall with cypress wood and covered it with fine gold; he placed palm trees and chains on it.

⁶ He covered the house with precious stones to adorn it, and the gold was Parvaim gold.

⁷ He overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, the walls, and the doors with gold, and carved cherubim on the walls.

⁸ He made the Most Holy Place: its length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits. He overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

⁹ The nails weighed fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

¹⁰ In the Most Holy Place he made two sculpted cherubim and overlaid them with gold.

¹¹ The cherubim’s wings spanned twenty cubits: one wing, five cubits long, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub.

¹² The wing of the other cherub, five cubits long, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, also five cubits long, reached the wing of the first cherub.

¹³ The outstretched wings of these cherubim spanned twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing toward the interior of the house.

¹⁴ He made the curtain of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and put cherubim on it.

¹⁵ In front of the house he made two pillars, thirty-five cubits long, and the capital on top of each was five cubits high.

¹⁶ He made chains for the inner sanctuary and placed them at the top of the pillars; he made one hundred pomegranates and attached them to the chains.

¹⁷ He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right and one on the left. He named the one on the right Jachin, and the one on the left Boaz.

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