2 Chronicles 3

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

² He began building it on the second day of the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

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

⁴ and the portico in front of the house was the ful width of the house, that is, twenty cubits, and its heightwas a hundred and twenty cubits; on the inside he overlaid it with pure gold.

⁵ The Great Hall he lined with juniper, which he overlaid with fine gold and ornamented with palm treesand festoons,

⁶ and he decorated the hall beautifully with precious stones and with gold from Parvaim,

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

⁸ He also made the Holy of Holies, the length of which corresponded to the width of the Great Hal , beingtwenty cubits, with a width of twenty cubits, and this he overlaid with fine gold weighing six hundred talents,

⁹ while the weight of the gold nails was fifty shekels. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

¹⁰ In the Holy of Holies he model ed two winged creatures of wrought metal work and overlaid them withgold.

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

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.

¹³ The spread of these creatures' wings was twenty cubits. They stood in an upright position, with theirfaces towards the Hall.

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

¹⁵ In front of the Hal he made two pil ars thirty-five cubits high, and on the top of each a capitalmeasuring five cubits.

¹⁶ He made festoons, in the Debir, to go at the tops of the pil ars, and made a hundred pomegranates togo on the festoons.

¹⁷ He erected the pil ars in front of the Temple, one on the right, the other on the left; the one on the righthe cal ed Jachin and the one on the left, Boaz.