2 Chronicles 3

1In Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, Solomon began building the house of the LORD. It was there that the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2He began to build in the fourth year of his reign, on the second day of the second month. 3These are the measurements Solomon laid down for building the house of God: measured by the old standard, the length was about 90 feet and the width about 30 feet. 4The porch in front of the temple was about 30 feet long, matching the width of the temple, and about 180 feet high. He overlaid its inside with pure gold. 5He paneled the main hall with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and he decorated it with palm trees and chains. 6He adorned the temple with precious stones to make it beautiful, and the gold he used was gold from Parvaim. 7He overlaid the temple with gold, its beams, its thresholds, its walls and its doors, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

8He made the most holy place. Its length, matching the width of the temple, was about 30 feet, and its width was about 30 feet. He overlaid it with fine gold weighing about 45,000 pounds. 9The gold for the nails weighed about 1 1/4 pounds. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold. 10He made two cherubim of sculptured work in the most holy place, and they were overlaid with gold. 11The wings of the cherubim measured about 30 feet in all. One wing of the first cherub, about 7 1/2 feet long, touched the wall of the temple, and its other wing, also about 7 1/2 feet, touched the wing of the second cherub. 12One wing of the second cherub, about 7 1/2 feet long, touched the other wall of the temple, and its other wing, also about 7 1/2 feet, met the wing of the first cherub. 13The wings of these cherubim spread out about 30 feet. They stood on their feet, facing the main hall.

14He made the inner curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, and worked cherubim into its design.

15In front of the temple he made two pillars about 52 feet long, each with a capital about 7 1/2 feet high on top.

16He made chains in the inner sanctuary and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains. 17He erected the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right and the other on the left. The pillar on the right he named Jachin, and the pillar on the left he named Boaz.