CHAPTER 3
1And Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where He had appeared to David his father at the place that David had readied at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2And he began to build in the second month on the second day in the fourth year of his kingship. 3And these are the measurements that Solomon established to build the house of God: the length according to the former measure was sixty cubits and the width twenty cubits. 4And the great hall in front had a length the same as the width of the house, twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty. And he overlaid it inside with pure gold. 5And the great house he paneled with cypresswood and overlaid it with fine gold and ornamented it with palms and chainwork. 6And he overlaid the house with splendid precious stones, and the gold was gold from Parvaim. 7And he overlaid the house—the beams, the thresholds and its walls and its doors—with gold and carved cherubim on the walls. 8And he made the Holy of Holies, its length along the width of the house twenty cubits and its width twenty cubits, and he overlaid it with fine gold, and he overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold. 9And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold, and he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. 10And he made two cherubim in the Holy of Holies, exquisite work, and he overlaid them with gold. 11And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits in length, each wing five cubits touching the wall of the house and the other wing five cubits touching the other cherub. 12And the wing of each cherub was five cubits touching the wall of the house and the other wing clinging to the wing of the other cherub. 13The wings of these cherubim spread were twenty cubits, and they were standing, facing the house. 14And he made the curtain indigo and crimson and purple in fine linen, and put cherubim on it. 15And he made in front of the house two pillars thirty-five cubits high, and the capitals on top were five cubits. 16And he made chainwork in the inner sanctuary and put it on top of the pillars and made a hundred pomegranates and set them in the chainwork. 17And he set up the pillars in front of the Temple and called the one on the right Jachin and the one on the left Boaz.