2 Chronicles 3

Berean Standard Bible

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Solomon began building the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, in the fourth year of his reign. The main temple foundation was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, featuring a front portico and a main room paneled in cypress. Solomon overlaid the interior surfaces, beams, thresholds, walls, doors, and upper rooms with fine gold and decorated the space with precious stones, palm trees, and chains. He constructed the Most Holy Place matching the width of the temple, inside of which he placed two sculptured cherubim with a combined wingspan of twenty cubits alongside a woven veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen. Finally, he erected two pillars at the front of the temple, measuring thirty-five cubits high with capitals, chains, and pomegranates, naming the southern pillar Jachin and the northern pillar Boaz.

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¹Then 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. ²Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. ³The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard. ⁴The 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. ⁵He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains. ⁶He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim. ⁷He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls. ⁸Then 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. ⁹The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold. ¹⁰In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of sculptured work, and he overlaid them with gold. ¹¹The 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. ¹²The 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. ¹³So the total wingspan of these cherubim was twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main room. ¹⁴He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it. ¹⁵In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits. ¹⁶He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork. ¹⁷Then 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.

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