Second Book of Chronicles 3

¹ Solomon then began to build the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where David his father had a vision. It was the place prepared by David, the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

² Solomon began building in the second month of the fourth year of his reign, on the second day.

³ Now the structure of the house of God founded by Solomon was sixty cubits long – cubits of the old standard – and twenty cubits wide.

⁴ The Ulam in front of the Hekal of the Temple was twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and its height was a hundred and twenty cubits. He plated it on the inside with pure gold.

⁵ The Great Hall he faced with juniper which he plated with pure gold, and on it set palms and festoons.

⁶ He adorned the hall with precious stones of great beauty; the gold was gold from Parvaim,

⁷ and with this he faced the hall, the rafters, thresholds, walls and doors; on the walls he carved cherubs.

⁸ He then built the hall of the Holy of Holies; its length, across the width of the Great Hall, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits. He plated it with six hundred talents of fine gold;

⁹ the gold nails weighed fifty shekels. He also plated the upper rooms with gold.

¹⁰ In the hall of the Holy of Holies he made two cherubs of wrought metal work and plated them with gold.

¹¹ The total span of the cherubs’ wings was twenty cubits, each being five cubits long, with one wing touching the wall of the hall, while the other touched that of the other cherub.

¹² One wing of a cherub, five cubits long, touched the wall of the apartment; the second, five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub.

¹³ The spread of these cherubs’ wings was twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the Hall.

¹⁴ He made the Veil of violet, scarlet, crimson and fine linen; he worked cherubs on it.

¹⁵ In front of the hall he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, and on the top of each a capital measuring five cubits.

¹⁶ In the Debir he made festoons, setting them at the tops of the pillars, and a hundred pomegranates which he placed on the festoons.

¹⁷ He set up the pillars in front of the Hekal, one on the right, the other on the left; the one on the right he called Jachin, the one on the left Boaz.