SECOND CHRONICLES

 

2 Chronicles Chapter 3

1 ¶ Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to David his father, at the place David had prepared on the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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

3 Now this is the foundation which Solomon laid for building the temple of God. The length in cubits by the former measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

4 And the porch that was across the front of the house, was the same length as the width of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was one hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

5 And the greater house he lined with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold, and made palm trees and chains on it.

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

7 He also overlaid the house, the beams, the posts, and its walls, and its doors, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.

8 And he made the most holy place, its length was the same as the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and its breadth also 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 place he made two cherubim of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

11 And the combined length of the wings of the cherubim was twenty cubits: one wing of 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 extended a distance of twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, with their faces inward.

14 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and embroidered cherubim on it.

15 Also he made two pillars in front of the house 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, like a necklace, and hung them on the tops of the pillars; and made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

17 And he raised up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of the one on the right Jachin, and the name of the one on the left Boaz.