1Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where he had appeared to David his father, at the place David had prepared, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2He began to build on the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
3Now these are the foundations Solomon laid for building the house of God: the length, in cubits by the former measure, was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.
4And the portico that was in front, along the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height was a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid its interior with pure gold.
5The great house he paneled with cypress wood, and he overlaid it with fine gold, and put on it palm trees and chains.
6He adorned the house with precious stone for beauty, and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
7He overlaid the house—the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors—with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.
8He made the house of the Holy of Holies. Its length, along the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold amounting to six hundred talents.
9The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold; and he overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
10In the house of the Holy of Holies he made two cherubim of sculptured work, and they overlaid them with gold.
11The wings of the cherubim: their total span was twenty cubits. The wing of the one, five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub.
12And the wing of the one cherub, five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, five cubits, adjoined the wing of the other cherub.
13The wings of these cherubim spread out twenty cubits; and they stood on their feet, with their faces toward the house.
14He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and he put cherubim on it.
15In front of the house he made two pillars, thirty-five cubits in length, and the capital that was on top of each was five cubits.
16He made chains in the inner sanctuary and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains.
17He set up 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.
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