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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.
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