3:1 Then Solomon began to build the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the place provided by David.
3:2 He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
3:3 The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide (using the cubit of the old standard).
3:4 The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits long across the width of the building and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
3:5 He paneled the main hall with pine and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree and chain designs.
3:6 He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim.
3:7 He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.
3:8 He built the Most Holy Place, its length corresponding to the width of the temple–twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.
3:9 The gold nails weighed fifty shekels. He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.
3:10 In the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold.
3:11 The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub.
3:12 Similarly one wing of the second cherub was five cubits long and touched the other temple wall, and its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the first cherub.
3:13 The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main hall.
3:14 He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim worked into it.
3:15 In the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits long, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits.
3:16 He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates and attached them to the chains.
3:17 He erected the pillars in the front of the temple, one to the south and one to the north. The one to the south he named Jakin and the one to the north Boaz.
3:1 And Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where He had appeared to David his father, at the place that David prepared, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
3:2 And he began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
3:3 And these are the foundations which Solomon laid to build the house of God. The length in cubits, according to the former standard, was sixty cubits, and it was twenty cubits wide.
3:4 And the portico that was at the front was as long as the width of the house, twenty cubits; and its height was one hundred twenty cubits. And he overlaid it within with pure gold.
3:5 And the greater house he overlaid with cypress wood, and he overlaid it with fine gold and put palm trees and chains on it.
3:6 And he adorned the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was gold from Parvaim.
3:7 And he overlaid the house ? the beams, the thresholds, and its walls and its doors ? with gold; and he carved cherubim on the walls.
3:8 And he made the house of the Holy of Holies; its length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold amounting to six hundred talents.
3:9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold, and the upper chambers he overlaid with gold.
3:10 And he made two cherubim of sculptured work in the house of the Holy of Holies, and they overlaid them with gold.
3:11 And the wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits; the wing of one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub.
3:12 And the wing of the other cherub, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, was attached to the wing of the first cherub.
3:13 The wings of these cherubim were spread out twenty cubits in length; and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.
3:14 And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson cloth and fine linen, and he put cherubim upon it.
3:15 And at the front of the house he made two pillars, thirty-five cubits high; and the capital that was on the top of each was five cubits high.
3:16 And he made chains in the innermost sanctuary and set them on the tops of the pillars, and he made one hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains.
3:17 And he erected the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right and one on the left; and he called the name of the one on the right Jachin and the name of the one on the left Boaz.