1: Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2: And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. 3: Now these [are the things in which] Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure [was] sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. 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 hight [was] a hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold. 5: And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set on it palm trees and chains. 6: And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold [was] gold of Parvaim. 7: He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls of it, and the doors of it, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls. 8: And he made the most holy house, the length of which [was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, [amounting] to six hundred talents. 9: And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. 10: And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work, and overlaid them with gold. 11: And the wings of the cherubim [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. 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. 13: The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces [were] inward. 14: And he made the vail [of] blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim upon it. 15: Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the capital that [was] on the top of each of them [was] five cubits. 16: And he made chains, [as] in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made a hundred pomegranates, and put [them] on the chains. 17: And he erected 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.
