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.

1 Então Salomão começou a edificar a casa do Senhor em Jerusalém, no monte Moriá, onde o Senhor aparecera a Davi, seu pai, no lugar que Davi tinha preparado na eira de Ornã, o jebuseu.2 Começou a edificar no segundo dia do segundo mês, no quarto ano do seu reinado.3 Estes foram os fundamentos que Salomão pôs para edificar a casa de Deus. O comprimento em côvados, segundo a primitiva medida, era de sessenta côvados, e a largura de vinte côvados:4 O pórtico que estava na frente tinha vinte côvados de comprimento, correspondendo à largura da casa, e a altura era de cento e vinte; e por dentro o revestiu de ouro puro.5 A câmara maior forrou com madeira de cipreste e a cobriu de ouro fino, no qual gravou palmas e cadeias.6 Para ornamento guarneceu a câmara de pedras preciosas; e o ouro era ouro de Parvaim.7 Também revestiu de ouro as traves e os umbrais, bem como as paredes e portas da câmara, e lavrou querubins nas paredes.8 Fez também a câmara santíssima, cujo comprimento era de vinte côvados, correspondendo à largura da casa, e a sua largura era de vinte côvados; e a revestiu de ouro fino, do peso de seiscentos talentos.9 O peso dos pregos era de cinqüenta siclos de ouro. Também revestiu de ouro os cenáculos.10 Também fez na câmara santíssima dois querubins de madeira, e os cobriu de ouro.11 As asas dos querubins tinham vinte côvados de comprimento: uma asa de um deles, tendo cinco côvados, tocava na parede da casa, e a outra asa, tendo também cinco côvados, tocava na asa do outro querubim;12 também a asa deste querubim, tendo cinco côvados, tocava na parede da casa, e a outra asa, tendo igualmente cinco côvados, estava unida à asa do primeiro querubim.13 Assim as asas destes querubins se estendiam por vinte côvados; eles estavam postos em pé, com os rostos virados para a câmara.14 Também fez o véu de azul, púrpura, carmesim e linho fino; e fez bordar nele querubins.15 Diante da casa fez duas colunas de trinta e cinco côvados de altura; e o capitel que estava sobre cada uma era de cinco côvados.16 Também fez cadeias no oráculo, e as pôs sobre o alto das colunas; fez também cem romãs, as quais pôs nas cadeias.17 E levantou as colunas diante do templo, uma à direita, e outra à esquerda; e chamou o nome da que estava à direita Jaquim, e o nome da que estava à esquerda Boaz.