Solomon Begins Building the Lord’s House in Jerusalem |
2 Chronicles 3:1-17 2 Chronicles in [Smaller Chunks] |
Then, Solomon began to build the [Lord’s] house in Jerusalem in Mount Moriah. Where the Lord appeared to his father, David & where David had prepared the threshing floor of Ornan, the Jebusite. |
[1 Chronicles 21:1 And Satan stood up against Israel & provoked David to number Israel.] |
[1 Chronicles 21:18 Then, the angel of the Lord commanded Gad [the seer: prophet who has visions from the Lord God] to say to David, that David should go up & [put] up an altar to the Lord in the threshing floor of Ornan, the Jebusite.] |
[Solomon] began to build on the 2nd day of the 2nd month in the 4th year [he ruled.] Now, Solomon instructed these things for building the [Lord’s] house. The length was 60 cubits & 20 cubits [wide, using standard measurement.] |
The length & [width] of the [covered] porch in front of the [temple were] 20 cubits [by] 20 cubits & [its] height was 120 [cubits.] He overlaid it [inside] with pure gold. The [larger room] he [paneled] with fir [trees,] which he overlaid with fine gold & [decorated with] palm trees & chains. |
[Solomon decorated] the [temple] with precious stones for beauty. The gold was [from] Parvaim. He also overlaid the house, the beams, the posts, the walls & doors [of it] & the [carved] cherubim [angelic figures] on the walls with gold. |
He made the Most Holy [Place in the temple] 20 cubits [by] 20 cubits & he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to 600 talents. The weight of the nails was 50 shekels of gold. [Solomon] overlaid the upper [rooms] with gold. |
And in the Most Holy [Place,] he made 2 cherubim [angelic statues] & overlaid them with gold. The wings of the cherubims were 20 cubits [total for the 2 angelic statues standing side by side.] |
[Each] wing of [the 2 cherubs] was 5 cubits. [The 2 cherub's wings touched each other in the middle & touched a temple wall with their outer wing, as] they stood on their feet & [were faced] inward. The wings of [both] cherubs spread 20 cubits, [wing tip to wing tip.] |
Solomon made the veil of blue, purple & crimson & fine linen & [woven] cherubims [on them.] [For the front of] the [temple,] he made two 35 cubit high pillars. The [capitals] on top of each of them was 5 cubits. |
He made [woven] chains [like what was] in the oracle & put them on the [tops] of the pillars. [He] made 100 pomegranates & put them on the chains. He [put] up the pillars in front of the temple, 1 on the right [side] & named it: Jachin & put the other [pillar] on the left & named it: Boaz. |