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2 Chronicles 3

2 Chronicles 3

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2
    The construction began in midspring,b during the fourth year of Solomon’s reign.
  • 2
    He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
  • 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
  • 3
    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).
  • 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.
  • 4
    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.
  • 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.
  • 5
    He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree and chain designs.
  • 6
    He decorated the walls of the Temple with beautiful jewels and with gold from the land of Parvaim.
  • 6
    He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim.
  • 7
    He overlaid the beams, thresholds, walls, and doors throughout the Temple with gold, and he carved figures of cherubim on the walls.
  • 7
    He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 9
    The gold nails that were used weighed 20 ouncesh each. He also overlaid the walls of the upper rooms with gold.
  • 9
    The gold nails weighed fifty shekels.f He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.
  • 10
    He made two figures shaped like cherubim, overlaid them with gold, and placed them in the Most Holy Place.
  • 10
    For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold.
  • 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.
  • 11
    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.
  • 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.
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    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.
  • 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.
  • 13
    The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main hall.h
  • 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.
  • 14
    He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim worked into it.
  • 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.
  • 15
    For the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubitsi long, each with a capital five cubits high.
  • 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.
  • 16
    He made interwoven chainsj and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates and attached them to the chains.
  • 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
  • 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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