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2 ChroniclesWEB
2 Chronicles 3:1WEB
Then Solomon began to build Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 3:2WEB
He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
2 Chronicles 3:3WEB
Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of God’s house: the length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.
2 Chronicles 3:4WEB
The porch that was in front, its length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
2 Chronicles 3:5WEB
He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.
2 Chronicles 3:6WEB
He decorated the house with precious stones for beauty. The gold was gold from Parvaim.
2 Chronicles 3:7WEB
He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold, and engraved cherubim on the walls.
2 Chronicles 3:8WEB
He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
2 Chronicles 3:9WEB
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
2 Chronicles 3:10WEB
In the most holy place he made two cherubim by carving, and they overlaid them with gold.
2 Chronicles 3:11WEB
The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
2 Chronicles 3:12WEB
The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
2 Chronicles 3:13WEB
The wings of these cherubim spread themselves out twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.
2 Chronicles 3:14WEB
He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim.
2 Chronicles 3:15WEB
Also he made before the house two pillars thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
2 Chronicles 3:16WEB
He made chains in the inner sanctuary, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
2 Chronicles 3:17WEB
He set 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.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.