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 Then began Solomon, to build the house of Yahweh, in Jerusalem, in Mount Moriah, where he had appeared unto David his father,-in the place which David had prepared, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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

3 And, these, are the things wherein Solomon was grounded for the building of the house of God,The length, by cubits, in the first measure, was sixty cubits, and, the breadth, twenty cubits.

4 And, the porch which was in front of the length, in front of the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and, the height thereof, was a hundred and twenty,and he overlaid it, within, with pure gold.

5 And, the greater house, covered he with cypress wood, and overlaid it with fine gold,and raised thereon palms, and wreathed garlands.

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

7 And he covered the house, the beams, the entrance-hall, and the walls thereof and the doors thereof, with gold,and he carved cherubim upon 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 covered it with fine gold, to six hundred talents;

9 and, the weight of the nails, amounted to fifty shekels of gold,and, the upper chambers, covered he with gold.

10 And he made, in the most holy house, two cherubim, of carved work,and covered them with gold.

11 And, as for the wings of the cherubim, the length of them, was twenty cubits,the one wing, by the cubit was five, reaching to the wall of the house, and, the other wing, 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, cleaving to the wing of the other cherub:

13 the wings of these cherubim, outspread, were twenty cubits,and, they themselves, were standing upon their feet, and, their faces, were inward.

14 And he made a vail, of blue and purple, and crimson and byssus cloth,and raised thereon cherubim.

15 And he made, for the front of the house, two pillars, thirty five cubits in length,and, the capital which was upon the top of each, was five cubits.

16 And he made wreathen chains in the shrine, and put them upon the top of the pillars,and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them in the chains,

17 And he reared up the pillars in front of the temple, one, on the right, and, one, on the left,and called the name of that on the right hand, Jachin, and the name of that on the left, Boaz.