1 Salomão começou a edificar a Casa do Senhor em Jerusalém, no monte Moriá, onde o Senhor havia aparecido a Davi, seu pai, lugar que Davi tinha designado na eira de Ornã, o jebuseu. 2 Começou a edificar no segundo dia do segundo mês, no quarto ano do seu reinado. 3 Foram estas as medidas dos alicerces que Salomão lançou para edificar a Casa de Deus: vinte e sete metros de comprimento por nove de largura, segundo o padrão antigo. 4 O pórtico diante da casa tinha nove metros no sentido da largura do Lugar Santo, e a altura era de cinquenta e quatro metros. Salomão revestiu o interior do pórtico de ouro puro. 5 Também fez forrar de madeira de cipreste a sala grande, revestiu-a de ouro puro e gravou nela palmeiras e correntes. 6 Também enfeitou a sala com pedras preciosas; e o ouro era de Parvaim. 7 Revestiu de ouro a sala, as vigas, os umbrais, as paredes e as portas; e esculpiu querubins nas paredes. 8 Fez o Santo dos Santos, cujo comprimento era de nove metros, segundo a largura da sala grande, e a largura também era de nove metros. Revestiu o seu interior com vinte toneladas de ouro puro. 9 O peso dos pregos era de seiscentos gramas de ouro. Também revestiu de ouro os cenáculos.

10 No Santo dos Santos, Salomão fez dois querubins de madeira e os revestiu de ouro. 11 As asas estendidas dos querubins mediam, juntas, quatro metros e meio; a asa de um deles, de dois metros e vinte e cinco, tocava na parede do templo; e a outra asa, igualmente de dois metros e vinte e cinco, tocava na asa do outro querubim. 12 Também a asa do outro querubim era de dois metros e vinte e cinco e tocava na outra parede; e a outra asa, igualmente de dois metros e vinte e cinco, estava unida à asa do outro querubim. As asas destes querubins se estendiam por nove metros. 13 Eles estavam em pé, com o rosto voltado para o Santo Lugar. 14 Salomão também fez o véu de pano azul, púrpura, carmesim e linho fino; e mandou bordar nele figuras de querubins.

15 Salomão fez também diante da sala duas colunas de quinze metros e meio de altura, com um capitel de dois metros e vinte sobre cada uma delas. 16 Também fez correntes, como as do Santo dos Santos, e as pôs no alto das colunas; fez também cem romãs, as quais pôs nas correntes. 17 Levantou as colunas diante do templo, uma à direita e outra à esquerda. À coluna da direita deu o nome de Jaquim, e à coluna da esquerda deu o nome de Boaz.

1 Solomon began to build Jehovah’s Temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. That is where Jehovah appeared to his father David. David had prepared the site on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.2 He began to build on the second day in the second month of the fourth year of his reign. It was in the place David had povided.3 This is how Solomon laid the foundation to build God’s Temple. It was ninety feet long and thirty feet wide. They used the old standard measurement.4 The entrance hall in front of the main room was thirty feet wide the same as the width of the temple and thirty feet high. He covered its inside walls with pure gold.5 He paneled the larger building with cypress. Then he overlaid it with fine gold. It was decorated with designs in the form of palm trees and chains.6 He covered the building with gems to beautify it and used gold from Parvaim.7 He also overlaid the building, the rafters, the threshold, the walls, and the doors with gold. He carved cherubim angels on the walls.8 He made the most holy place. It was as long as the Temple was wide, thirty feet long. It was also thirty feet wide. He overlaid it with forty-five thousand pounds of fine gold.9 The gold nails weighed twenty ounces. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.10 In the most holy place he made two sculptured cherubim angels and covered them with gold.11 The combined length of the cherubim wings was thirty feet. A wing of one of the cherub was seven and one half feet long and touched the wall of the building. Its other wing was seven and one half feet long and touched one wing of the other cherub.12 The wing of the other one of the cherub angels was seven and one half feet long and touched the other wall of the building. Its other wing was seven and one half feet long and touched the wing of the first cherub. So the cherubs’ combined wingspan was thirty feet.13 They stood on their feet facing the main hall.14 Solomon made the canopy of violet, purple, and dark red cloth and of linen and decorated it with cherubim.15 He made two pillars for the front of the Temple. They were fifty-three feet long, and the crown on each pillar was seven and one half feet high.16 He made chains for the inner room and also put them on the crowns. He made one hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains.17 He set up the pillars in front of the Temple, one on the right and the other on the left. He named the one on the right Jachin He Establishes and the one on the left Boaz In Him Is Strength.