2 Chronicles 3
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Solomon Builds the Temple
1 # For ver. 1, 2, see 1 Kgs. 6:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem #Gen. 22:2, 14 on Mount Moriah, where the Lord#3:1 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, #[1 Chr. 21:15, 18, 28]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 Solomon’s #[Ezra 3:11] measurements#3:3 Syriac; Hebrew foundations for building the house of God: #For ver. 3, 4, see 1 Kgs. 6:2, 3the length, in cubits#3:3 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. 4The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house,#3:4 Compare 1 Kings 6:3; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain and its height was 120 cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold. 5#1 Kgs. 6:17 The nave he lined with cypress and covered it with fine gold #1 Kgs. 6:29, 32and made palms and chains on it. 6He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold of Parvaim. 7So he lined the house with gold—its beams, its thresholds, its walls, and its doors—#[See ver. 5 above]and he carved cherubim on the walls.
8 # [1 Kgs. 6:16] And he made the Most Holy Place. Its length, corresponding to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth was twenty cubits. He overlaid it with 600 talents#3:8 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms of fine gold. 9The weight of gold for the nails was fifty shekels.#3:9 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams And he overlaid #1 Chr. 28:11the upper chambers with gold.
10 # For ver. 10-13, see 1 Kgs. 6:23-28 In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of wood#3:10 Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain and overlaid#3:10 Hebrew they overlaid them with gold. 11The wings of the cherubim together extended twenty cubits: one wing of the one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub; 12and of this cherub, one wing, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, also of five cubits, was joined to the wing of the first cherub. 13The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. The cherubim#3:13 Hebrew they stood on their feet, #[Ezek. 40:9]facing the nave. 14#See Ex. 26:31And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and he worked cherubim on it.
15 # For ver. 15, 16, see 1 Kgs. 7:15-20; [1 Kgs. 7:15; 2 Kgs. 25:17; Jer. 52:21] In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each. 16He made chains like a necklace#3:16 Hebrew chains in the inner sanctuary and put them on the tops of the pillars, and he made a hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains. 17#1 Kgs. 7:21He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south, the other on the north; that on the south he called Jachin, and that on the north Boaz.
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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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