1 No mês de zive, o segundo mês, durante o quarto ano de seu reinado, Salomão começou a construir o templo do Senhor. Isso ocorreu 480 anos depois que o povo de Israel foi liberto da escravidão na terra do Egito.

2 O templo que o rei Salomão construiu para o Senhor media 27 metros de comprimento, 9 metros de largura e 13,5 metros de altura. 3 A sala de entrada na frente do templo media 9 metros de largura, a mesma largura do templo, e se projetava 4,5 metros à frente do templo. 4 Salomão também fez janelas com grades e molduras por todo o templo.

5 Junto às paredes externas do edifício, nas laterais e nos fundos, ele construiu um anexo com salas. 6 Esse anexo tinha três andares; o andar de baixo media 2,25 metros de largura, o segundo andar media 2,7 metros de largura, e o terceiro, 3,15 metros de largura. As salas eram ligadas às paredes do templo por vigas apoiadas em saliências nas paredes, por isso as vigas não eram inseridas nas paredes em si.

7 O acabamento das pedras usadas na construção do templo era feito na própria pedreira, de modo que não havia barulho algum de martelo, machado ou qualquer outra ferramenta de ferro no local da construção.

8 A entrada para o andar de baixo ficava no lado sul do templo. Havia uma escada em caracol que subia para o segundo andar, e outro lance de escadas que ia do segundo para o terceiro andar. 9 Uma vez concluída a estrutura do templo, Salomão colocou um forro de vigas e tábuas de cedro. 10 Além disso, construiu um anexo com salas junto aos lados do edifício, ligado às paredes do templo por vigas de cedro. Cada andar do anexo media 2,25 metros de altura.

11 Então esta mensagem do Senhor veio a Salomão: 12 "Quanto a este templo que você está construindo, se seguir todos os meus decretos e estatutos e obedecer a todos os meus mandamentos, cumprirei a promessa que fiz a seu pai, Davi. 13 Habitarei no meio dos israelitas e jamais abandonarei meu povo, Israel".

14 Assim, Salomão terminou a construção do templo. 15 Todo o interior, desde o piso até o teto, foi revestido com madeira. Revestiu as paredes e o teto com tábuas de cedro e, para o piso, usou tábuas de cipreste. 16 Na parte de trás do templo, separou um santuário interno, o lugar santíssimo. Esse santuário interno media 9 metros de profundidade e era revestido com cedro do piso ao teto. 17 O salão principal do templo, fora do lugar santíssimo, media 18 metros de comprimento. 18 Em todo o interior do templo, tábuas de cedro cobriam completamente as paredes de pedra, e as tábuas eram enfeitadas com entalhes de frutos e flores abertas.

19 Ele preparou o santuário interno na parte de trás do templo, onde seria colocada a arca da aliança do Senhor. 20 Esse santuário interno media 9 metros de comprimento, 9 metros de largura e 9 metros de altura. Revestiu com ouro puro o interior do santuário e também o altar de cedro. 21 Depois, Salomão revestiu com ouro puro o interior do restante do templo e fez correntes de ouro para a entrada do lugar santíssimo. 22 Assim, terminou de revestir com ouro o interior de todo o templo, incluindo o altar do lugar santíssimo.

23 Fez dois querubins de madeira de oliveira, cada um medindo 4,5 metros de altura, e os colocou no santuário interno. 24 As asas abertas de cada querubim mediam de uma ponta à outra 4,5 metros, e cada asa media 2,25 metros de comprimento. 25 Os dois querubins tinham a mesma forma e o mesmo tamanho; 26 cada um media 4,5 metros de altura. 27 Ele os colocou lado a lado no santuário interno do templo. Suas asas abertas iam de uma parede à outra, enquanto as asas internas se tocavam no meio da sala. 28 Revestiu os dois querubins com ouro.

29 Enfeitou todas as paredes do santuário interno e do salão principal com entalhes de querubins, palmeiras e flores abertas. 30 Revestiu o piso do santuário e do salão com ouro.

31 Para a entrada do santuário interno, fez portas de duas folhas de madeira de oliveira e batentes de cinco lados. 32 Essas portas de duas folhas eram enfeitadas com entalhes de querubins, palmeiras e flores abertas. As portas, incluindo os enfeites de querubins e palmeiras, foram revestidas com ouro.

33 Depois, para a entrada do templo, fez batentes de quatro lados de madeira de oliveira. 34 Fez também duas portas articuladas de cipreste, cada uma com dobradiças que permitiam dobrar uma folha sobre a outra. 35 Essas portas eram enfeitadas com entalhes de querubins, palmeiras e flores abertas e eram completamente revestidas com ouro.

36 As paredes do pátio interno foram construídas com uma camada de vigas de cedro entre cada três camadas de pedras cortadas.

37 O alicerce do templo do Senhor foi lançado no mês de zive, durante o quarto ano do reinado de Salomão. 38 A construção toda foi completada no oitavo mês, no mês de bul, durante o décimo primeiro ano de seu reinado. Portanto, a construção do templo levou sete anos.

1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build Yahweh’s house. 2 The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh had a length of sixty cubits, and its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits. 3 The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits, which was along the width of the house. Ten cubits was its width in front of the house. 4 He made windows of fixed lattice work for the house. 5 Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around. 6 The lowest floor was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house. 7 The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction. 8 The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third. 9 So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar. 10 He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timbers of cedar.

11 Yahweh’s word came to Solomon, saying, 12 "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father. 13 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel."

14 So Solomon built the house and finished it. 15 He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood. He covered the floor of the house with cypress boards. 16 He built twenty cubits of the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built this within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place. 17 In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long. 18 There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible. 19 He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of Yahweh’s covenant there. 20 Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in its height. He overlaid it with pure gold. He covered the altar with cedar. 21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold. He drew chains of gold across before the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold. 22 He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. He also overlaid the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary with gold.

23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high. 24 Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits was the length of the other wing of the cherub. From the tip of one wing to the tip of the other was ten cubits. 25 The other cherub was ten cubits. Both the cherubim were of one measure and one form. 26 One cherub was ten cubits high, and so was the other cherub. 27 He set the cherubim within the inner house. The wings of the cherubim were stretched out, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the middle of the house. 28 He overlaid the cherubim with gold.

29 He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, inside and outside. 30 He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inside and outside. 31 For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood. The lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall. 32 So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold. He spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees. 33 He also made the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part of the wall, 34 and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. 35 He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work. 36 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.

37 The foundation of Yahweh’s house was laid in the fourth year, in the month Ziv. 38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts and according to all its specifications. So he spent seven years building it.