2 Chronicles
Chapter 3 · King James Version
1Then 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 threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2And he began to build in the second
day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
3Now 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.
4And 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.
5And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
6And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold
was gold of Parvaim.
7He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.
8And 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.
9And the weight of the nails
was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
10And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.
11And 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.
12And
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.
13The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces
were inward.
14And he made the vail
of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
15Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that
was on the top of each of them
was five cubits.
16And 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.
17And 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.
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