2 Chronicles 3

¹Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [the LORD] had appeared to his father David. [This was] the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

²[Solomon] began construction on the second [day] of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

³The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God [was] sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.

⁴The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, [was] twenty cubits [long] [and] twenty [cubits] high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

⁵He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.

⁶He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold [was] from Parvaim.

⁷He overlaid [its] beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

⁸Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple — twenty cubits [long] and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid [the inside] with six hundred talents of fine gold.

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

¹⁰In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of sculptured work, and he overlaid them with gold.

¹¹The total wingspan of the cherubim [was] twenty cubits. One wing of the first [cherub] [was] five cubits [long] and touched the wall of the temple, and [its] other wing [was] five cubits [long] and touched the wing of the other cherub.

¹²The wing of the second cherub [also measured] five cubits and touched the wall of the temple, while [its] other wing [measured] five cubits and touched the wing of the first cherub.

¹³So the total wingspan of these cherubim [was] twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the [main] room.

¹⁴He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.

¹⁵In front of the temple he made two pillars, which [together] were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top [measuring] five cubits.

¹⁶He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork.

¹⁷Then he set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south and one on the north. [The pillar] on the south he named Jachin, [and the pillar] on the north he named Boaz.