2 Chronicles 3

The House Rises on Mount Moriah

1Solomon set about building the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where he had appeared to David his father, on the site David had prepared — the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2The building began on the second of the second month, in his fourth year as king. 3These are the foundations Solomon laid for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the older measure, sixty cubits; the width, twenty cubits. 4The portico across the front, running the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid the inside with pure gold. 5The great hall he panelled with cypress, overlaid it with fine gold, and set palms and chainwork upon it. 6For beauty he set precious stone into the house; and the gold was gold of Parvaim. 7He overlaid the house — its beams, its thresholds, its walls and its doors — with gold, and carved cherubim into the walls. 8He made the Most Holy Place: its length ran the width of the house, twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, six hundred talents of it. 9The nails weighed fifty shekels of gold. The upper rooms too he overlaid with gold. 10For the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim, sculptured work, and these were plated with gold. 11The wings of the cherubim measured twenty cubits across: one wing, five cubits long, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, five cubits long, touched the wing of the second cherub. 12One wing of the second cherub, five cubits long, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, five cubits long, met the wing of the first cherub. 13The wings of these cherubim spread out twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the hall. 14He made the curtain of violet, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, and worked cherubim into it. 15In front of the house he made two pillars, thirty-five cubits tall, with a capital of five cubits on top of each. 16He made chainwork in the inner sanctuary and set it on the tops of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them to the chainwork. 17He raised the pillars in front of the temple, one to the right and one to the left; the one on the right he named Jachin, and the one on the left Boaz.