2 Chronicles, 3

1. Solomon then began building the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where David his father had had a vision -- on the site which David had prepared -- on the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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. He began building it on the second day of the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

2. And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

3. These are the dimensions which Solomon fixed for the structure of the house of God: its length in cubits, according to the old standard, was sixty cubits and its width twenty cubits;

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 portico in front of the house was the full width of the house, that is, twenty cubits, and its height was a hundred and twenty cubits; on the inside he overlaid it with pure gold.

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. The Great Hall he lined with juniper, which he overlaid with fine gold and ornamented with palm trees and festoons,

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 decorated the hall beautifully with precious stones and with gold from Parvaim,

6. And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold [was] gold of Parvaim.

7. overlaying the hall, its beams and its thresholds, its walls and its doors, with gold and engraving the walls with great winged creatures.

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. He also made the Holy of Holies, the length of which corresponded to the width of the Great Hall, being twenty cubits, with a width of twenty cubits, and this he overlaid with fine gold weighing six hundred talents,

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

9. And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

10. In the Holy of Holies he modelled two winged creatures of wrought metal work and overlaid them with gold.

10. And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

11. The total span of their wings was twenty cubits; one wing, being five cubits long, touched the wall of the house and the other wing, being five cubits long, touched the wing of the other winged creature;

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. while one wing of the other, five cubits long, touched the other wall of the house and the other wing, five cubits long, touched the wing of the other winged creature.

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 spread of these creatures' wings was twenty cubits. They stood in an upright position, with their faces towards the Hall.

13. The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces [were] inward.

14. He also made the Curtain of violet, scarlet, crimson and fine linen, working a design of winged creatures on it.

14. And he made the vail [of] blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.

15. In front of the Hall he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, and on the top of each a capital measuring five cubits.

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. He made festoons, in the Debir, to go at the tops of the pillars, and made a hundred pomegranates to go on the festoons.

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. He erected the pillars in front of the Temple, one on the right, the other on the left; the one on the right he called Jachin and the one on the left, Boaz.

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.