2 Chronicles 3
3
The temple is built
(1 Kings 6.1-38)
1-2Solomon's workers began building the temple in Jerusalem on the second day of the second month,#3.1,2 second month: Ziv, the second month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-April to mid-May. four years after Solomon had become king of Israel. It was built on Mount Moriah where the LORD had appeared to David at the threshing place that had belonged to Araunah#3.1,2 Araunah: The Hebrew text has “Ornan”, another spelling of the name (see 2 Samuel 24.18-25; 1 Chronicles 21.18—22.1). from Jebus.#Gn 22.22.
3The inside of the temple was twenty-seven metres long and nine metres wide, according to the older standards.#3.3 according to the older standards: There were possibly two different standards of measurement during Israel's history. 4Across the front of the temple was a porch nine metres wide and nine metres#3.4 nine metres: Some manuscripts of two ancient translations; Hebrew “fifty-four metres”. high. The inside walls of the porch were covered with pure gold.
5Solomon had the inside walls of the temple's main room panelled first with pine and then with a layer of gold, and he had them decorated with carvings of palm trees and designs that looked like chains. 6He used precious stones to decorate the temple, and he used gold imported from Parvaim#3.6 Parvaim: An unknown place. 7to decorate the ceiling beams, the doors, the door frames, and the walls. Solomon also made the workers carve designs of winged creatures into the walls.
8The most holy place was nine metres square, and its walls were covered with over twenty tonnes of fine gold.#Ex 26.33,34. 9Five hundred and seventy grammes of gold was used to cover the heads of the nails. The walls of the small storage rooms were also covered with gold.#3.9 The walls…gold: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
10Solomon had two statues of winged creatures#3.10 statues of winged creatures: These were symbols of the LORD's throne on earth (see Exodus 25.18-22). made to put in the most holy place, and he covered them with gold.#Ex 25.18-20. 11-13Each creature had two wings and was four and a half metres from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other wing. Solomon set them next to each other in the most holy place, facing the doorway. Their wings were spread out and reached all the way across the nine metre room.
14A curtain#3.14 A curtain: To separate the most holy place from the main room of the temple. was made of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool, and embroidered with designs of winged creatures.#Ex 26.31.
The two columns
(1 Kings 7.15-22)
15Two columns were made for the entrance to the temple. Each one was five and a half metres tall and had a cap on top that was over two metres high. 16The top of each column was decorated with designs that looked like chains#3.16 designs that looked like chains: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. and with a hundred carvings of pomegranates.#3.16 pomegranates: A pomegranate is a small red fruit that looks like an apple. In ancient times, it was a symbol of life. 17Solomon had one of the columns placed on the south side of the temple's entrance; it was called Jachin.#3.17 Jachin: Or “He (God) makes secure.” The other one was placed on the north side of the entrance; it was called Boaz.#3.17 Boaz: Or “He (God) is strong.”
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2 Paralipomenon 3
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1And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in mount Moria, which had been shewn to David his father, in the place which David had prepared in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2And he began to build in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
3Now these are the foundations, which Solomon laid, to build the house of God. The length by the first measure sixty cubits, the breadth twenty cubits.
4And the porch in the front, which was extended in length according to the measure of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits. And the height was a hundred and twenty cubits. And he overlaid it within with pure gold.
5And the greater house he ceiled with deal boards, and overlaid them with plates of fine gold throughout: and he graved in them palm trees, and like little chains interlaced with one another.
6He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble, of great beauty.
7And the gold of the plates with which he overlaid the house, and the beams thereof, and the posts, and the walls, and the doors, was of the finest. And he graved cherubims on the walls.
8He made also the house of the Holy of Holies: the length of it according to the breadth of the temple, twenty cubits, and the breadth of it in like manner twenty cubits. And he overlaid it with plates of gold, amounting to about six hundred talents.
9He made also nails of gold: and the weight of every nail was fifty sicle. The upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.
10He made also in the house of the Holy of Holies two cherubims of image work: and he overlaid them with gold.
11The wings of the cherubims were extended twenty cubits, so that one wing was five cubits long, and reached to the wall of the house: and the other was also five cubits long, and reached to the wing of the other cherub.
12In like manner the wing of the other cherub was five cubits long, and reached to the wall: and his other wing was five cubits long, and touched the wing of the other cherub.
13So the wings of the two cherubims were spread forth, and were extended twenty cubits. And they stood upright on their feet, and their faces were turned toward the house without.
14He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk: and wrought in it cherubims.
15He made also before the doors of the temple two pillars, which were five and thirty cubits high: and their chapiters were five cubits.
16He made also as it were little chains in the oracle: and he put them on the heads of the pillars. And a hundred pomegranates, which he put between the little chains.
17These pillars he put at the entrance of the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. That which was on the right hand, he called Jachin: and that on the left hand, Booz.
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