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