CHAPTER 3
Then Solomon
began
to build
the house
of the LORD
in Jerusalem
on Mount
Moriah,
where the LORD
had appeared
to his father
David.
This was the place that
David
had prepared
on the threshing floor
of Ornan
the Jebusite.
The foundation
that Solomon
laid
for the house
of God
was sixty
cubits
long
and twenty
cubits
wide,
according to the old
standard.
The portico
at
the front,
extending across
the width
of the temple,
was twenty
cubits long
and
twenty cubits
high.
He overlaid
the inside
with pure
gold.
He paneled
the main
room
with
cypress,
which he overlaid
with fine
gold
and decorated
with palm tree
and chain designs.
He overlaid
its
beams,
thresholds,
walls,
and doors
with gold,
and he carved
cherubim
on
the walls.
Then he made
the Most Holy
Place;
its length
corresponded to
the width
of the temple,
twenty
cubits long
and twenty
cubits
wide,
and he overlaid the inside
with six
hundred
talents
of fine
gold.
The total
wingspan
of the cherubim
was twenty
cubits.
One wing
of the first cherub
was five
cubits long
and touched
the wall
of the temple,
and its other
wing
was five
cubits long
and touched
the wing
of the other
cherub.
The wing
of the second
cherub
also measured five
cubits
and touched
the wall
of the house,
while its other
wing
measured five
cubits
and touched
the wing
of the first
cherub.
So the total wingspan
of these
cherubim
was twenty
cubits.
They
stood
on
their feet,
facing
the main room.
In front
of the temple
he made
two
pillars,
which together were thirty-five
cubits
high,
each with a capital
on
top
measuring five
cubits.
He made
interwoven
chains
and put them
on
top
of the pillars.
He made
a hundred
pomegranates
and fastened them
into the chainwork.
Then he set up
the pillars
in
front
of the temple,
one
on the south
and one
on the north.
The pillar on the south
he named
Jachin,
and the pillar on the north
he named
Boaz.