2 Chronicles 3
- Then Solomon began to build the house of
the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah,
where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had
prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan
the Jebusite.
- And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the
fourth year of his reign.
- Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the
building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was
threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
- And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it
was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an
hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
- And the greater house he cieled with fir
tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
- And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the
gold was gold of Parvaim.
- He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls
thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims
on the walls.
- And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to
the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits:
and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
- And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he
overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
- And in the most holy house he made two cherubims
of image work, and overlaid them with gold.
- And the wings of the cherubims were twenty
cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall
of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing
of the other cherub.
- And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the
wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing
of the other cherub.
- The wings of these cherubims spread
themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces
were inward.
- And he made the vail of blue, and purple,
and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims
thereon.
- Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits
high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of
them was five cubits.
- And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of
the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
- And he reared 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.