2 Chronicles 3

1 And he began Solomon to build [the] house of Yahweh in Jerusalem on [the] mountain of Moriah where he had appeared to David father his which he had prepared in [the] place of David on [the] threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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 threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2 And he began to build in the month second on the second [day] in year four of reign his.

And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

3 And these [are] [the] founding of Solomon to build [the] house of God the length cubits by the measurement former [was] cubits sixty and [the] breadth [was] cubits twenty.

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.

4 And the porch which [was] on [the] face of the length on [the] face of [the] breadth of the house [was] cubits twenty and the height [was] one hundred and twenty and he overlaid it from within gold pure.

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.

5 And - the house great he overlaid wood of cypresses and he overlaid it gold fine and he put up on it palm trees and chains.

And the greater house he covered over with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

6 And he overlaid the house stone[s] precious for beauty and the gold [was] [the] gold of Parvaim.

And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

7 And he overlaid the house the beams the thresholds and walls its and doors its gold and he engraved cherubim on the walls.

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.

8 And he made [the] house of [the] holy place of the holy places length its on [the] face of [the] breadth of the house [was] cubits twenty and breadth its [was] cubits twenty and he overlaid it gold fine to talents six hundred.

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.

9 And [the] weight of nails to shekels fifty gold and the upper rooms he overlaid gold.

And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

10 And he made in [the] house of [the] holy place of the holy places cherubim two a work of castings and they overlaid them gold.

And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

11 And [the] wings of the cherubim length their [was] cubits twenty [the] wing of the one [cherub] to cubits five [was] touching [the] wall of the house and the wing other cubits five [was] touching [the] wing of the cherub other.

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.

12 And [the] wing of the cherub one cubits five [was] touching [the] wall of the house and the wing other cubits five [was] clinging to [the] wing of the cherub other.

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 The cherubim these [were] spreading out cubits twenty and they [were] standing on feet their and faces their [were] to the inside.

The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.

14 And he made the curtain violet and purple and crimson and fine linen and he put up on it cherubim.

And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.

15 And he made before the house pillars two cubits thirty and five length and the capital which [was] on top its [was] cubits five.

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 in the innermost room and he put [them] on [the] top of the pillars and he made pomegranates one hundred and he put [them] on the chains.

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.

17 And he set up the pillars on [the] face the temple one from [the] south and one from the north and he called [the] name of (the south [one] *QK) Jakin and [the] name of the north [one] Boaz.

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.