1 所罗门在耶路撒冷， 在耶和华向他父亲大卫显现过的摩利亚山上， 就是在耶布斯人阿珥楠的禾场上， 大卫预备的地方， 开工建造耶和华的殿。
2 所罗门执政后第四年二月初二开始建造。
3 所罗门建造 神殿宇的根基是这样： 按古时的尺寸， 长二十七公尺， 宽九公尺。
4 殿前走廊长九公尺， 与殿的宽度相等； 高九公尺（"高九公尺"原文作"高一百二十"； 现参照古译本修译）； 里面贴上纯金。
5 大殿的墙都盖上松木， 又贴上精金， 又在上面刻上棕树和链子。
6 又用宝石装饰殿墙， 十分华美； 金子都是巴瓦音的金子。
7 正殿和殿的栋梁、门槛、墙壁和门扇， 都贴上金子； 墙上刻上基路伯。
8 他又建造了至圣所， 长九公尺， 和殿的宽度相等， 宽度也是九公尺； 里面都贴上精金， 共用了二十公吨金子。
9 钉子共重五百七十克金子。阁楼也贴上金子。
10 在至圣所里， 雕刻了两个基路伯， 都包上金子。
11 两个基路伯的翅膀共长九公尺； 一个基路伯的一边翅膀长两公尺两公寸， 触着殿墙； 另一边翅膀也长两公尺两公寸， 和另一个基路伯的翅膀相接。
12 另一个基路伯的一边翅膀也长两公尺两公寸， 触着殿墙； 另一边的翅膀也长两公尺两公寸， 和前一个基路伯的翅膀相接。
13 这两个基路伯的翅膀都张开， 共长九公尺； 这两个基路伯都面向殿内站立。
14 所罗门又用蓝色紫色朱红色线和细麻做幔子， 上面绣上基路伯。
15 在殿的前面又做了两根柱子， 高十五公尺半， 每根柱上面的柱顶， 高两公尺两公寸。
16 又做了像项链的链子， 安放在柱头上； 又做了石榴一百个， 安放在链子上。
17 他把这两根柱子立在殿前， 一根在左面， 一根在右面； 右面的叫雅斤， 左面的叫波阿斯。
1 Then Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where Jehovah appeared unto David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing-floor 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 foundations which Solomon laid 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 before the house, the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold. 5 And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought 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 thresholds, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubim on the walls.
8 And he made the most holy house: the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house, was 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 cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold. 11 And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the 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 the 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 cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house. 14 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.
15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. 16 And he made chains in the oracle, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. 17 And he set 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.