1And Salomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, which was shewed David his father when he prepared a place in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2And he began to build the second day of the second month the fourth year of his reign.
3And this is the foundation of Salomon in building the house of God. The length was three score cubits after the old cubit, and the breadth twenty.
4And the porch at the end was as large as the house breadth twenty cubits: and the height was an hundredth and twenty cubits. And he overlaid it on the inner side with pure gold.
5And the great house he sealed with fir tree, and overlaid it with good gold, and graved thereto palm trees and chains.
6And he paved the house with precious stone goodly. And it was gold of Pharuiam.
7And he overlaid the house: both beams, posts, walls and doors with gold, and graved Cherubs upon the walls.
8And he made the house most holy, whose length was twenty cubits like to the breadth of the house, and the breadth thereof was also twenty cubits. And he overlaid it with the best gold, that drew to the sum of six hundredth talents.
9And the weight of the nails of gold was thereto fifty sicles. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
10And he made in the house most holy two Cherubs of Image work, and overlaid them with gold.
11And the wings of the Cherubs were twenty cubits long. The one wing was five cubits and touched the wall of the house, and the other wing was likewise five cubits and touched the wing of the other Cherub.
12And the one wing of the other Cherub was five cubits, and touched the wall of the house, and the other wing was five cubits also, and raught to the wing of the other Cherub.
13So that the wings of the said Cherubs raught twenty cubits. And they stood on their feet and looked inwards.
14And he made a forehanging of Jacinct colour, of scarlet, crimson and byss: and caused the Cherubs to be bordered thereon.
15And he made before the house two pillars of thirty five cubits long. And the head that was above on the top of one of them was five cubits.
16And he made such chains as was in the quere, and put them on the heads of the pillars, and made an hundredth pomegranates and put them on the chains.
17And he reared up the pillars before the temple: one on the right hand and another on the left, and called the right Jachin and the left Boaz.