1 Salomão começou a edificar a casa de Jeová em Jerusalém no monte Moriá, onde Jeová apareceu a Davi, seu pai, no lugar que tinha preparado Davi na eira de Ornã jebuseu.2 Começou a edificar no segundo dia do segundo mês, no quarto ano do seu reinado.3 Estes são os alicerces que Salomão lançou para a edificação da casa de Deus. O comprimento em cúbitos segundo a primitiva medida era de sessenta cúbitos e a largura de vinte cúbitos.4 O pórtico que estava defronte da casa tinha de comprimento vinte cúbitos, correspondendo à largura da casa, e de altura cento e vinte cúbitos; e por dentro o cobriu com ouro puro.5 Também fez forrar de madeira de cipreste a casa maior, e a cobriu de ouro puro, e gravou nela palmas e cadeiazinhas.6 Para beleza guarneceu a casa de pedras preciosas; e o ouro era de Parvaim.7 Com ouro cobriu também a casa, as suas traves, os seus humbrais, as suas paredes e as suas portas; e fez esculpir querubins nas paredes.8 Fez a casa do santo dos santos, cujo comprimento era de vinte cúbitos, correspondendo à largura da casa, e a largura de vinte cúbitos; e cobriu-a de ouro fino, do peso de seiscentos talentos.9 O peso dos pregos era de cinqüenta siclos de ouro. Cobriu com ouro as câmaras superiores.10 Na casa do santo dos santos fez dois querubins, de obra de madeira, e cobriram-nos de ouro.11 As asas dos querubins tinham de comprimento vinte cúbitos. A asa dum querubim tinha cinco cúbitos, e tocava na parede da casa; e a outra asa que igualmente tinha cinco cúbitos, tocava na asa do outro querubim.12 A asa do outro querubim tinha cinco cúbitos, e tocava na parede da casa; e a outra asa tinha igualmente cinco cúbitos, e estava unida à asa do outro querubim.13 As asas destes querubins estendiam-se por vinte cúbitos; eles estavam postos em pé, e os seus rostos virados para a casa.14 Fez o véu de azul, púrpura, carmesim e de linho fino, e fez bordar nele querubins.15 Também fez diante da casa duas colunas que tinham trinta e cinco cúbitos de altura, e o capitel que estava em cima de cada uma delas tinha cinco cúbitos.16 Fez cadeiazinhas na forma de colar, pondo-as sobre as sumidades das colunas; também fez cem romãs, que pôs nas cadeiazinhas.17 Erigiu as colunas diante do templo, uma à direita e a outra à esquerda; a que estava à direita chamou-lhe Jaquim, e a que estava à esquerda, chamou-lhe Boaz.

1 And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in mount Moria, which had been shewn to David his father, in the place which David had prepared in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.2 And he began to build in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.3 Now these are the foundations, which Solomon laid, to build the house of God, the length by the first measure sixty cubits, the breadth twenty cubits.4 And the porch in the front, which was extended in length according to the measure of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits: and the height was a hundred and twenty cubits: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.5 And the greater house he ceiled with deal boards, and overlaid them with plates of fine gold throughout: and he graved in them palm trees, and like little chains interlaced with one another.6 He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble, of great beauty.7 And the gold of the plates with which he overlaid the house, and the beams thereof, and the posts, and the walls, and the doors was of the finest: and he graved cherubims on the walls.8 He made also the house of the holy of holies: the length of it according to the breadth of the temple, twenty cubits, and the breadth of it in like manner twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with plates of gold, amounting to about six hundred talents.9 He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty sicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.10 He made also in the house of the holy of holies two cherubims of image work: and he overlaid them with gold.11 The wings of the cherubims were extended twenty cubits, so that one wing was five cubits long, and reached to the wall of the house: and the other was also five cubits long, and reached to the wing of the other cherub.12 In like manner the wing of the other cherub, was five cubits long, and reached to the wall: and his other wing was five cubits long, and touched the wing of the other cherub.13 So the wings of the two cherubims were spread forth, and were extended twenty cubits: and they stood upright on their feet, and their faces were turned toward the house without.14 He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk: and wrought in it cherubims.15 He made also before the doors of the temple two pillars, which were five and thirty cubits high: and their chapiters were five cubits.16 He made also as it were little chains in the oracle, and he put them on the heads of the pillars: and a hundred pomegranates, which he put between the little chains.17 These pillars he put at the entrance of the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left: that which was on the right hand, he called Jachin: and that on the left hand, Boot.