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Chapter
3

1
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah,
where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had
prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2
And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year
of his reign.

3
Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the
house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore
cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

4
And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was
according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an
hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

5
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine
gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

6
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was
gold of Parvaim.

7
He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and
the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.

8
And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the
breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and
he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

9
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the
upper chambers with gold.

10
And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid
them with gold.

11
And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one
cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing
was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

12
And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the
house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the
other cherub.

13
The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they
stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.

14
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and
wrought cherubims thereon.

15
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and
the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

16
And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars;
and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

17
And he reared 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.