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2 Chronicles 3

2 Chronicles 3

  • 1
    Solomon Builds the Temple

    Then Solomon began to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunaha the Jebusite, the place provided by David.
  • 1
    Solomon Builds the Temple

    Now Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [a]the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan[b] the Jebusite.
  • 2
    He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
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    And he began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
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    The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wideb (using the cubit of the old standard).
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    This is the foundation which Solomon laid for building the house of God: The length was sixty cubits (by cubits according to the former measure) and the width twenty cubits.
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    The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubitsc long across the width of the building and twentyd cubits high.
    He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
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    And the vestibule that was in front of [c]the sanctuary was twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and the height was [d]one hundred and twenty. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
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    He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree and chain designs.
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    The larger [e]room he paneled with cypress which he overlaid with fine gold, and he carved palm trees and chainwork on it.
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    He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim.
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    And he decorated the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was gold from Parvaim.
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    He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.
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    He also overlaid the house — the beams and doorposts, its walls and doors — with gold; and he carved cherubim on the walls.
  • 8
    He built the Most Holy Place, its length corresponding to the width of the temple — twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talentse of fine gold.
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    And he made the Most Holy Place. Its length was according to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits. He overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold.
  • 9
    The gold nails weighed fifty shekels.f He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.
  • 9
    The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold; and he overlaid the upper area with gold.
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    For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold.
  • 10
    In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim, fashioned by carving, and overlaid them with gold.
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    The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubitsg long and touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub.
  • 11
    The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits in overall length: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, touching the wall of the room, and the other wing was five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherub;
  • 12
    Similarly one wing of the second cherub was five cubits long and touched the other temple wall, and its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the first cherub.
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    one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, touching the wall of the room, and the other wing also was five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherub.
  • 13
    The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main hall.h
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    The wings of these cherubim spanned twenty cubits overall. They stood on their feet, and they faced inward.
  • 14
    He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim worked into it.
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    And he made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and wove cherubim into it.
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    For the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubitsi long, each with a capital five cubits high.
  • 15
    Also he made in front of the [f]temple two pillars [g]thirty-five cubits [h]high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
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    He made interwoven chainsj and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates and attached them to the chains.
  • 16
    He made wreaths of chainwork, as in the inner sanctuary, and put them on top of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the wreaths of chainwork.
  • 17
    He erected the pillars in the front of the temple, one to the south and one to the north. The one to the south he named Jakink and the one to the north Boaz.l
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    Then he set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand and the other on the left; he called the name of the one on the right hand [i]Jachin, and the name of the one on the left [j]Boaz.
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