1 Solomon then started building the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had shown himself to his father David, at the place David had made ready on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 He started building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
3 These were Solomon's foundation measurements for building God's house: the length, in cubits of the earlier standard, sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.
4 The porch at the front ran across the width of the house, twenty cubits, and its height was a hundred and twenty. He covered its interior with pure gold.
5 He lined the main hall with cypress, covered it with fine gold, and decorated it with palm trees and chains.
6 He adorned the house with precious stones to make it beautiful, and the gold was gold from Parvaim.
7 He covered the house with gold, the beams, the thresholds, its walls and its doors, and carved cherubim on the walls.
8 He made the room of the Most Holy Place. It was twenty cubits long, matching the width of the house, and twenty cubits wide. He covered it with six hundred talents of fine gold.
9 The nails weighed fifty shekels of gold. He also covered the upper rooms with gold.
10 In the room of the Most Holy Place he made two sculpted cherubim, and they covered them with gold.
11 The cherubim's wings together spanned twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub, five cubits long, reached the wall of the house, and its other wing, also five cubits, reached the wing of the second cherub.
12 One wing of the second cherub, five cubits long, reached the wall of the house, and its other wing, five cubits, met the wing of the first cherub.
13 These cherubim's wings stretched out twenty cubits. They stood upright on their feet, facing the house.
14 He made the veil of violet, purple, and crimson material and fine linen, and wove cherubim into it.
15 At the front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits long, with a capital five cubits high on top of each.
16 He made chains in the inner sanctuary and set them on top of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them to the chains.
17 He erected the pillars in front of the temple, one to the south and one to the north. The southern one he named Jachin, and the northern one Boaz.