Deuxième livre des Chroniques 3

JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Salomon commença alors la construction de la maison de Yahvé. C'était à Jérusalem, sur lemont Moriyya, là où son père David avait eu une vision. C'était le lieu préparé par David, l'aire d'Ornân leJébuséen.	1 And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in mount Moria, which had been shewn to David his father, in the place which David had prepared in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Salomon commença les constructions au second mois de la quatrième année de son règne.	2 And he began to build in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
3 Voici que l'édifice de la maison de Dieu, fondée par Salomon, eut une longueur de 60 coudées-- coudée d'ancienne mesure -- et une largeur de vingt.	3 Now these are the foundations, which Solomon laid, to build the house of God, the length by the first measure sixty cubits, the breadth twenty cubits.
4 Le vestibule qui se trouvait par devant avait une longueur de vingt coudées couvrant la largeurde la maison et une hauteur de 120 coudées. Salomon en revêtit d'or pur l'intérieur.	4 And the porch in the front, which was extended in length according to the measure of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits: and the height was a hundred and twenty cubits: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
5 Quant à la grande salle, il la plaqua en bois de genévrier qu'il recouvrit d'un bel or et y dressades palmes et des guirlandes.	5 And the greater house he ceiled with deal boards, and overlaid them with plates of fine gold throughout: and he graved in them palm trees, and like little chains interlaced with one another.
6 Il sertit alors la salle de pierres précieuses, éclatantes; l'or était de l'or de Parvayim,	6 He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble, of great beauty.
7 il en recouvrit la salle, les poutres, les seuils, les parois et les portes, et grava ensuite deschérubins sur les parois.	7 And the gold of the plates with which he overlaid the house, and the beams thereof, and the posts, and the walls, and the doors was of the finest: and he graved cherubims on the walls.
8 Puis il bâtit la salle du Saint des Saints dont la longueur de vingt coudées couvrait la largeurde la grande salle, et dont la largeur était de vingt coudées. Il la plaqua pour 600 talents d'un bel or;	8 He made also the house of the holy of holies: the length of it according to the breadth of the temple, twenty cubits, and the breadth of it in like manner twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with plates of gold, amounting to about six hundred talents.
9 les clous d'or pesaient 50 sicles. Il plaqua d'or les chambres hautes.	9 He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty sicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.
10 Dans la salle du Saint des Saints il fit deux chérubins, ouvrage en métal forgé qu'il plaquad'or.	10 He made also in the house of the holy of holies two cherubims of image work: and he overlaid them with gold.
11 Les ailes des chérubins avaient vingt coudées de long, chacune d'elles ayant cinq coudées ettouchant l'une à la paroi de la salle, l'autre à celle de l'autre chérubin.	11 The wings of the cherubims were extended twenty cubits, so that one wing was five cubits long, and reached to the wall of the house: and the other was also five cubits long, and reached to the wing of the other cherub.
12 L'une des ailes de cinq coudées d'un chérubin touchait à la paroi de la salle; la seconde, decinq coudées, touchait à l'aile de l'autre chérubin.	12 In like manner the wing of the other cherub, was five cubits long, and reached to the wall: and his other wing was five cubits long, and touched the wing of the other cherub.
13 Déployées, les ailes de ces chérubins mesuraient vingt coudées. Eux-mêmes se tenaientdebout, face à la Salle.	13 So the wings of the two cherubims were spread forth, and were extended twenty cubits: and they stood upright on their feet, and their faces were turned toward the house without.
14 Il fit le Rideau de pourpre violette et écarlate, de cramoisi et de byssus; il y appliqua deschérubins.	14 He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk: and wrought in it cherubims.
15 Devant la salle, il fit deux colonnes longues de 35 coudées que surmontait un chapiteau decinq coudées.	15 He made also before the doors of the temple two pillars, which were five and thirty cubits high: and their chapiters were five cubits.
16 Dans le Debir, il fit des guirlandes qu'il disposa au haut des colonnes et fit cent grenades qu'ilmit dans les guirlandes.	16 He made also as it were little chains in the oracle, and he put them on the heads of the pillars: and a hundred pomegranates, which he put between the little chains.
17 Il dressa les colonnes devant le Hékal, l'une à droite et l'autre à gauche, et il appela Yakîncelle de droite, Boaz celle de gauche.	17 These pillars he put at the entrance of the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left: that which was on the right hand, he called Jachin: and that on the left hand, Boot.