3Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in 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.H8010H2490H1129H1004H3068H3389H2022H4179H7200H1732H1H4725H1732H3559H1637H771H29832And he began to build on the second [day] in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.H2490H1129H8145H8145H2320H702H8141H4438
Dimensions and Materials of the Temple
3Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for building the house of God. The length in cubits, according to the old standard [was] sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.H8010H3245H1129H1004H430H753H520H7223H4060H8346H520H7341H6242H5204And the porch which was in front of the house was as long as the width of the house, twenty cubits, and the height 120; and inside he overlaid it with pure gold.H197H6440H753H7341H1004H6242H520H1363H3967H6242H6823H6441H2889H20915And he overlaid the main room with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.H1419H1004H2645H1265H6086H2645H2896H2091H5927H8561H83336Further, he adorned the house with precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.H6823H1004H3368H68H8597H2091H2091H65167He also overlaid the house with gold— the beams, the thresholds, and its walls, and its doors; and he carved cherubim on the walls.H2645H1004H6982H5592H7023H1817H2091H6605H3742H70238Now he made the room of the holy of holies: its length, across the width of the house, [was] twenty cubits, and its width [was] twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, [amounting] to 600 talents.H6213H6944H6944H1004H753H6440H7341H1004H6242H520H7341H6242H520H2645H2896H2091H8337H3967H36039And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.H4948H4548H2572H8255H2091H2645H5944H209110Then he made two sculptured cherubim in the room of the holy of holies and overlaid them with gold.H6944H6944H1004H6213H8147H3742H6816H4639H6823H209111And the wingspan of the cherubim [was] twenty cubits; the wing of one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and [its] other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub.H3671H3742H6242H520H753H259H3671H2568H520H5060H7023H1004H312H3671H2568H520H5060H3671H312H374212And the wing of the other cherub, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house; and [its] other wing of five cubits, was attached to the wing of the first cherub.H3671H259H3742H2568H520H5060H7023H1004H312H3671H2568H520H1695H3671H312H374213The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits, and they stood on their feet facing the [main] room.H3671H3742H6566H6242H520H5975H7272H6440H100414And he made the veil of violet, purple, crimson and fine linen, and he worked cherubim on it.H6213H6532H8504H713H3758H948H5927H374215He also made two pillars for the front of the house, thirty-five cubits high, and the capital on the top of each [was] five cubits.H6213H6440H1004H8147H5982H7970H2568H520H753H6858H7218H2568H52016And he made chains in the inner sanctuary, and placed [them] on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates and placed [them] on the chains.H6213H8333H1687H5414H7218H5982H6213H3967H7416H5414H833317And he erected the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right and the other on the left, and named the one on the right Jachin and the one on the left Boaz.H6965H5982H6440H1964H259H3225H259H8040H7121H8034H3233H3227H3199H8034H8042H1162
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