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2 Chronicles 3

2 Chronicles 3

  • 1
    Temple Construction Begins

    Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
  • 1
    Solomon Builds the Temple

    So Solomon began to build the Temple of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to David, his father. The Temple was built on the threshing floor of Araunaha the Jebusite, the site that David had selected.
  • 2
    And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
  • 2
    The construction began in midspring,b during the fourth year of Solomon’s reign.
  • 3
    Dimensions and Materials

    Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
  • 3
    These are the dimensions Solomon used for the foundation of the Temple of God (using the old standard of measurement).c It was 90 feet long and 30 feet wide.d
  • 4
    And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
  • 4
    The entry room at the front of the Temple was 30 feete wide, running across the entire width of the Temple, and 30 feetf high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
  • 5
    And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
  • 5
    He paneled the main room of the Temple with cypress wood, overlaid it with fine gold, and decorated it with carvings of palm trees and chains.
  • 6
    And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
  • 6
    He decorated the walls of the Temple with beautiful jewels and with gold from the land of Parvaim.
  • 7
    He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.
  • 7
    He overlaid the beams, thresholds, walls, and doors throughout the Temple with gold, and he carved figures of cherubim on the walls.
  • 8
    And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
  • 8
    He made the Most Holy Place 30 feet wide, corresponding to the width of the Temple, and 30 feet deep. He overlaid its interior with 23 tonsg of fine gold.
  • 9
    And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
  • 9
    The gold nails that were used weighed 20 ouncesh each. He also overlaid the walls of the upper rooms with gold.
  • 10
    And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.
  • 10
    He made two figures shaped like cherubim, overlaid them with gold, and placed them in the Most Holy Place.
  • 11
    The Cherubim

    And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
  • 11
    The total wingspan of the two cherubim standing side by side was 30 feet. One wing of the first figure was 7 1/2 feeti long, and it touched the Temple wall. The other wing, also 7 1/2 feet long, touched one of the wings of the second figure.
  • 12
    And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
  • 12
    In the same way, the second figure had one wing 7 1/2 feet long that touched the opposite wall. The other wing, also 7 1/2 feet long, touched the wing of the first figure.
  • 13
    The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.
  • 13
    So the wingspan of the two cherubim side by side was 30 feet. They stood on their feet and faced out toward the main room of the Temple.
  • 14
    The Veil and Pillars

    And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
  • 14
    Across the entrance of the Most Holy Place he hung a curtain made of fine linen, decorated with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and embroidered with figures of cherubim.
  • 15
    Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
  • 15
    For the front of the Temple, he made two pillars that were 27 feetj tall, each topped by a capital extending upward another 7 1/2 feet.
  • 16
    And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
  • 16
    He made a network of interwoven chainsk and used them to decorate the tops of the pillars. He also made 100 decorative pomegranates and attached them to the chains.
  • 17
    And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
  • 17
    Then he set up the two pillars at the entrance of the Temple, one to the south of the entrance and the other to the north. He named the one on the south Jakin, and the one on the north Boaz.l
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