Secondo libro delle Cronache 3

BIBBIA CEI 2008	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Salomone cominciò a costruire il tempio del Signore in Gerusalemme sul monte Moria dove il Signore era apparso a Davide suo padre, nel luogo preparato da Davide sull'aia di Ornan il Gebuseo.	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 Incominciò a costruire nel secondo mese dell'anno quarto del suo regno.	2 And he began to build in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
3 Queste sono le misure delle fondamenta poste da Salomone per edificare il tempio: lunghezza, in cubiti dell'antica misura, sessanta cubiti; larghezza venti cubiti.	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 Il vestibolo, che era di fronte al tempio nel senso della larghezza del tempio, era di venti cubiti; la sua altezza era di centoventi cubiti. Egli ricoprì l'interno di oro purissimo.	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 Ricoprì con legno di abete il vano maggiore e lo rivestì d'oro fino; sopra vi scolpì palme e catenelle.	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 Rivestì l'aula con pietre preziose per ornamento. L'oro era oro di Parvàim.	6 He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble, of great beauty.
7 Rivestì d'oro la navata, cioè le travi, le soglie, le pareti e le porte; sulle pareti scolpì cherubini.	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 Costruì la cella del Santo dei santi, lunga, nel senso della larghezza della navata, venti cubiti e larga venti cubiti. La rivestì di oro fino, impiegandone seicento talenti.	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 Il peso dei chiodi era di cinquanta sicli d'oro; anche i piani di sopra rivestì d'oro.	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 Nella cella del Santo dei santi eresse due cherubini, lavoro di scultura e li rivestì d'oro.	10 He made also in the house of the holy of holies two cherubims of image work: and he overlaid them with gold.
11 Le ali dei cherubini erano lunghe venti cubiti. Un'ala del primo cherubino, lunga cinque cubiti, toccava la parete della cella; l'altra, lunga cinque cubiti, toccava l'ala del secondo cherubino.	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 Un'ala del secondo cherubino, di cinque cubiti, toccava la parete della cella; l'altra, di cinque cubiti, toccava l'ala del primo cherubino.	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 Queste ali dei cherubini, spiegate, misuravano venti cubiti; essi stavano in piedi, voltati verso l'interno.	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 Salomone fece la cortina di stoffa di violetto, di porpora, di cremisi e di bisso; sopra vi fece ricamare cherubini.	14 He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk: and wrought in it cherubims.
15 Di fronte al tempio eresse due colonne, alte trentacinque cubiti; il capitello sulla cima di ciascuna era di cinque cubiti.	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 Fece ghirlande e le pose sulla cima delle colonne. Fece anche cento melagrane e le collocò fra le ghirlande.	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 Eresse le colonne di fronte alla navata, una a destra e una a sinistra; quella a destra la chiamò Iachin e quella a sinistra Boaz.	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.