Then Solomon began to build - the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah , where (the LORD) had appeared to his father - David. (This was) the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
(Solomon) began construction on the second (day) of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
- The foundation that Solomon laid - for the house of God (was) sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide , according to the old standard -.
The portico - at the front , ... extending across ... the width of the temple , (was) twenty cubits (long) (and) twenty (cubits) high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
- He paneled the main room with cypress , which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated ... with palm trees and chains.
He adorned - the temple with precious stones for beauty , and its gold (was) from Parvaim.
He overlaid - (its) beams , thresholds , walls , and doors with gold , and he carved cherubim on the walls.
Then he made - the Most Holy ... Place ; its length corresponded to ... the width of the temple — twenty cubits (long) and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid (the inside) with six hundred talents of fine gold.
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper area with gold.
In the Most Holy ... Place he made two cherubim of sculptured work , and he overlaid them with gold.
The total wingspan of the cherubim (was) twenty cubits. One wing of the first (cherub) (was) five cubits (long) and touched the wall of the temple , and (its) other wing (was) five cubits (long) and touched the wing of the other cherub.
The wing of the second cherub (also measured) five cubits and touched the wall of the temple , while (its) other wing (measured) five cubits and touched the wing of the first cherub.
So the total wingspan ... of these cherubim (was) twenty cubits. They stood on their feet , facing the (main) room.
He made - the veil of blue , purple , and crimson yarn and fine linen , with cherubim woven into it.
In front of the temple he made two pillars , which (together) were thirty-five ... cubits high , each with a capital - on top (measuring) five cubits.
He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork.
Then he set up - the pillars in front of the temple , one on the south and one on the north. (The pillar) on the south he named ... Jachin , (and the pillar) on the north he named Boaz.