II Chronicles Chapter 3

II Chronicles Chapter 3
1 So Solomon began to build the house
of the Lord in Jerusalem, in mount
Moriah which had been declared unto
David his father, in the place that David
prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan
the Jebusite.
2 And he began to build in the second
month and the second day, in the fourth
year of his reign.
3 And these are the measures, whereon
Solomon grounded to build the house of
God: the length of cubits after the first
measure was threescore cubits, and the
breadth twenty cubits:
4 And the porch, that was before the
length in the front of the breadth was
twenty cubits, and the height was an
hundred and twenty, and he overlaid it
within with pure gold.
5 And the greater house he ceiled with
fir tree which he overlaid with good
gold, and graved thereon palm trees and
chains.
6 And he overlaid the house with
precious stone for beauty: and the gold
was gold of Parvaim.
7 The house, I say, the beams, posts, and
walls thereof and the doors thereof
overlaid he with gold, and graved
cherubims upon the walls.
8 He made also the house of the most
holy place: the length thereof was in the
front of the breadth of the house, twenty
cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty
cubits: and he overlaid it with the best
gold, of six hundred talents. 9 And the
weight of the nails was fifty shekels of
gold, and he overlaid the chambers with
gold.
10 And in the house of the most holy
place he made two cherubims wrought
like children, and overlaid them with
gold.
11 And the wings of the cherubims were
twenty cubits long: the one wing was
five cubits, reaching to the wall of the
house, and the other wing five cubits,
reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
12 Likewise the wing of the other cherub
was five cubits, reaching to the wall of
the house, and the other wing five cubits
joining to the wing of the other cherub.
13 The wings of these cherubims were
spread abroad twenty cubits: they stood
on their feet, and their faces were
toward the house. 14 He made also the
veil of blue silk and purple, and
crimson, and fine linen, and wrought
cherubims thereon.
15 And he made before the house two
pillars of five and thirty cubits high: and
the chapiter that was upon the top of
each of them, was five cubits. 16 He
made also chains for the oracle, and put
them on the heads of the pillars, and
made an hundred pomegranates, and put
them among the chains. 17 And he set up
the pillars before the temple, one on the
right hand and the other on the left, and
called that on the right hand Jachin, and
that on the left hand Boaz.