1 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.
2 And
he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth
year of his reign.
3 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.
4 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.
5 And
the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold,
and set thereon palm trees and chains.
6 And
he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold
of Parvaim.
7 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.
8 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.
9 And
the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid
the upper chambers with gold.
10 And
in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them
with gold.
11 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.
12 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.
13 The
wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood
on their feet, and their faces were inward.
14 And
he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and
fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
15 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.
16 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.
17 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.
