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2 Chronicles 3

2 Chronicles 3

  • 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.
  • 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.
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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 construction began in midspring,b during the fourth year of Solomon’s reign.
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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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    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
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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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    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.
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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 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.
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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 decorated the walls of the Temple with beautiful jewels and with gold from the land of Parvaim.
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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.
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    He overlaid the beams, thresholds, walls, and doors throughout the Temple with gold, and he carved figures of cherubim on the walls.
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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.
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    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.
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    The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold; and he overlaid the upper area with gold.
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    The gold nails that were used weighed 20 ouncesh each. He also overlaid the walls of the upper rooms with gold.
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    In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim, fashioned by carving, 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.
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    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;
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    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.
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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.
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    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.
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    The wings of these cherubim spanned twenty cubits overall. They stood on their feet, and they faced inward.
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    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.
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    And he made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and wove cherubim into it.
  • 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.
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    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.
  • 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.
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    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.
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    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
    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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    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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