Chapter 3
1 Then Solomon began to build the LORD ’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah , where the LORD appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed , on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite .
2 He began to build in the second day of the second month , in the fourth year of his reign .
3 Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of God’s house : the length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.
4 The porch that was in front , its length , across the width of the house , was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred and twenty ; and he overlaid it within with pure gold .
5 He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood , which he overlaid with fine gold , and ornamented it with palm trees and chains .
6 He decorated the house with precious stones for beauty . The gold was gold from Parvaim .
7 He also overlaid the house , the beams , the thresholds , its walls , and its doors with gold , and engraved cherubim on the walls .
8 He made the most holy place . Its length , according to the width of the house , was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold , amounting to six hundred talents .
9 The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold . He overlaid the upper rooms with gold .
10 In the most holy place he made two cherubim by carving, and they overlaid them with gold .
11 The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one was five cubits , reaching to the wall of the house ; and the other wing was five cubits , reaching to the wing of the other cherub .
12 The wing of the other cherub was five cubits , reaching to the wall of the house ; and the other wing was five cubits , joining to the wing of the other cherub .
13 The wings of these cherubim spread themselves out twenty cubits. They stood on their feet , and their faces were towards the house .
14 He made the veil of blue , purple , crimson , and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim .
15 Also he made before the house two pillars thirty-five cubits high , and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits .
16 He made chains in the inner sanctuary , and put them on the tops of the pillars ; and he made one hundred pomegranates , and put them on the chains .
17 He set 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 .