2 Chronicles, 3

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.

1. Solomon then began to build Yahweh's House in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where David his father had a vision. It was the place prepared by David, the threshing floor 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.

2. Solomon began building in the second month of the fourth year of his reign, on the second day.

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.

3. The house which Solomon built was 90 feet long and 30 feet high.

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.

4. The Hall in front of the Great Room of the Temple was 30 cubits long across the width of the house, and its height was 180 feet. He plated it on the inside 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.

5. The Great Room he faced with juniper which he plated with pure gold, and on it set palms and festoons.

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

6. He adorned the building with precious stones of great beauty; the gold was gold from 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.

7. and with this he faced the house, the beams, thresholds, walls and doors; on the walls he carved cherubs.

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.

8. He then built the Holy of Holies; its length, across the width of the Great Room, was 30 feet, and its width 30 feet. He plated it with 25 tons of fine gold;

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

9. the gold nails weighed 20 ounces. He also plated the upper rooms with gold.

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

10. In the Holy of Holies he made two cherubs of wrought metal work and plated 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.

11. The total span of the cherubs' wings was 30 feet, each being 7 1/2 feet long, with one wing touching the wall of the room, while the other touched that 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.

12. One wing of a cherub, 7 1/2 feet long, touched the wall of the apartment; the second, 7 1/2 feet long, touched 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.

13. The spread of these cherubs' wings was 30 feet. They stood on their feet, facing the Hall.

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

14. He made the Veil of violet, scarlet, crimson and fine linen; he worked cherubs on it.

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.

15. In front of the Great room he made two pillars 52 feet high, and on the top of each a capital measuring 7 feet.

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.

16. He set festoons like in the Holy of holies, at the tops of the pillars, and a hundred pomegranates which he placed on the festoons.

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.

17. He set up the pillars in front of the house, one on the right, the other on the left; the one on the right he called Jachin, the one on the left Boaz.