Dual Panel1Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David; it was the site which David had prepared on the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.
3These are the foundations which Solomon laid for building the house of God: according to the old standard of measurement the length was sixty cubits and the breadth twenty.
4The vestibule in front of the house was twenty cubits long, spanning the whole breadth of the house, and its height was twenty; on the inside he overlaid it with pure gold.
5He panelled the large chamber with pine, covered it with fine gold, and carved on it palm trees and chain-work.
6He adorned the house with precious stones for decoration and with gold from Parvaim.
7He overlaid the whole house with gold, its rafters and frames, its walls and doors; and he carved cherubim on the walls.
8He made the Most Holy Place twenty cubits long, corresponding to the breadth of the house, and twenty cubits broad. He overlaid it all with six hundred talents of fine gold,
9and the weight of the gold nails was fifty shekels. He also covered the upper chambers with gold.
10In the Most Holy Place he carved two images of cherubim and overlaid them with gold.
11The total span of the wings of the cherubim was twenty cubits. A wing of one cherub extended five cubits to touch the wall of the house, while its other wing reached out five cubits to meet a wing of the other cherub.
12Similarly, a wing of the second cherub extended five cubits to touch the other wall of the house, while its other wing met a wing of the first cherub.
13The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits; they stood with their feet on the ground, facing the outer chamber.
14He made the veil of violet, purple, and crimson yarn, and fine linen, and embroidered cherubim on it.
15In front of the house he erected two pillars eighteen cubits high, with a capital five cubits high on top of each.
16He made chain-work like a necklace and set it round the tops of the pillars, and he carved a hundred pomegranates and set them in the chain-work.
17He erected the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right and one on the left; the one on the right he named Jachin and the one on the left Boaz.