1 Then Solomon began to build the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah "the Jebusite, the place provided by David.2 He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.3 The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide "(using the cubit of the old standard).4 The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits "long across the width of the building and twenty "cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.5 He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree and chain designs.6 He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim.7 He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.8 He built the Most Holy Place, its length corresponding to the width of the temple —twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talents "of fine gold.9 The gold nails weighed fifty shekels. "He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.10 For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold.11 The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits "long and touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub.12 Similarly one wing of the second cherub was five cubits long and touched the other temple wall, and its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the first cherub.13 The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main hall. [^8]14 He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim worked into it.15 For the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits "long, each with a capital five cubits high.16 He made interwoven chains "and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates and attached them to the chains.17 He erected the pillars in the front of the temple, one to the south and one to the north. The one to the south he named Jakin "and the one to the north Boaz. [^12]

1 Et cpit Salomon dificare domum Domini in Jerusalem in monte Moria, qui demonstratus fuerat David patri ejus, in loco quem paraverat David in area Ornan Jebusi. 2 Cpit autem dificare mense secundo, anno quarto regni sui. 3 Et hc sunt fundamenta qu jecit Salomon, ut dificaret domum Dei : longitudinis cubitos in mensura prima sexaginta, latitudinis cubitos viginti. 4 Porticum vero ante frontem, qu tendebatur in longum juxta mensuram latitudinis domus, cubitorum viginti : porro altitudo centum viginti cubitorum erat : et deauravit eam intrinsecus auro mundissimo. 5 Domum quoque majorem texit tabulis ligneis abiegnis, et laminas auri obrizi affixit per totum : sculpsitque in ea palmas, et quasi catenulas se invicem complectentes. 6 Stravit quoque pavimentum templi pretiosissimo marmore, decore multo. 7 Porro aurum erat probatissimum, de cujus laminis texit domum, et trabes ejus, et postes, et parietes, et ostia : et clavit cherubim in parietibus. 8 Fecit quoque domum Sancti sanctorum : longitudinem juxta latitudinem domus cubitorum viginti : et latitudinem similiter viginti cubitorum : et laminis aureis texit eam, quasi talentis sexcentis. 9 Sed et clavos fecit aureos, ita ut singuli clavi siclos quinquagenos appenderent : cnacula quoque texit auro. 10 Fecit etiam in domo Sancti sanctorum cherubim duos, opere statuario : et texit eos auro. 11 Al cherubim viginti cubitis extendebantur, ita ut una ala haberet cubitos quinque et tangeret parietem domus : et altera quinque cubitos habens, alam tangeret alterius cherub. 12 Similiter cherub alterius ala, quinque habebat cubitos, et tangebat parietem : et ala ejus altera quinque cubitorum, alam cherub alterius contingebat. 13 Igitur al utriusque cherubim expans erant et extendebantur per cubitos viginti : ipsi autem stabant erectis pedibus, et facies eorum erant vers ad exteriorem domum. 14 Fecit quoque velum ex hyacintho, purpura, cocco, et bysso : et intexuit ei cherubim. 15 Ante fores etiam templi duas columnas, qu triginta et quinque cubitos habebant altitudinis : porro capita earum, quinque cubitorum. 16 Necnon et quasi catenulas in oraculo, et superposuit eas capitibus columnarum : malogranata etiam centum, qu catenulis interposuit. 17 Ipsas quoque columnas posuit in vestibulo templi, unam a dextris, et alteram a sinistris : eam qu a dextris erat, vocavit Jachin : et qu ad lvam, Booz.