1 Salomão começou a construção do templo do Senhor, em Jerusalém, no monte Mória, para isso designado por Davi, seu pai, no mesmo lugar que Davi preparara, na eira de Ornã, o jebuseu.2 Foi no segundo dia do segundo mês, no quarto ano de seu reinado, que iniciou a obra.3 Estes são os fundamentos determinados por Salomão para a construção do templo: de comprimento, sessenta côvados, segundo a antiga medida; de largura, vinte côvados.4 O pórtico, que se achava no frontispício, e cujo comprimento correspondia à largura do edifício, tinha vinte côvados, e vinte de altura. Era revestido de ouro puro por dentro.5 A grande sala foi forrada de ciprestes; ele a guarneceu de ouro puro nos lugares em que estavam esculpidas as palmas e as pequenas cadeias.6 Ornou esta sala com pedras preciosas; o ouro era de Parvaim.7 O rei revestiu de ouro a sala: traves, umbrais, paredes e portas; nas paredes mandou esculpir querubins.8 Fez também a construção da sala do Santo dos Santos, cujo comprimento, igual à largura do edifício, era de vinte côvados. O valor do ouro fino, com que o recobriu, era de seiscentos talentos.9 Mesmo os pregos eram de ouro e pesavam cinqüenta siclos. Revestiu igualmente de ouro os aposentos.10 Para o interior do Santo dos Santos, mandou esculpir dois querubins e os revestiu de ouro.11 O comprimento de suas asas era de vinte côvados; uma asa do primeiro, de cinco côvados de comprimento, tocava a parede da sala, e outra, de cinco côvados, tocava a asa do segundo querubim.12 Uma asa do segundo querubim, de cinco côvados de comprimento, tocava a parede da sala, e a outra, de cinco côvados de comprimento, tocava a asa do primeiro.13 Assim, a envergadura das asas destes querubins era de vinte côvados. Sustentavam-se sobre seus pés, com o rosto voltado para a sala.14 O rei mandou fazer uma cortina em púrpura violeta, carmesim e linho fino, e nela mandou bordar querubins.15 Diante do edifício, levantou duas colunas de trinta e cinco côvados de altura, tendo no alto um capitel de cinco côvados.16 Como para o santuário, fez pequenas cadeias, colocou-as no cimo das colunas, e suspendeu nelas cem romãs.17 Levantou colunas, uma à direita e outra à esquerda da fachada do templo: chamou à da direita Jaquim e à da esquerda Boaz.

1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in the Mount Moriah which had been shown unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan, the Jebusite.2 And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.3 Now these [are the measurements on which] Solomon founded the building of the house of God. The first measurement was the length of sixty cubits and the breadth of twenty cubits.4 And the porch that [was] in the front of the length was of twenty cubits, according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height [was] one hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.5 And the greater house he covered with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.6 And he [also] covered the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold [was] gold of Parvaim.7 Thus did he cover the house, its beams, its posts, its walls, and its doors, with gold and engraved cherubim on the walls.8 And he made the house of the holy of holies, its length was twenty cubits, according to the breadth of the house, and its breadth was twenty cubits, and he covered it with fine gold, [amounting] to six hundred talents.9 And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.10 And inside the house of the holy of holies he made two cherubim of figured work and overlaid them with gold.11 And the wings of the cherubim [were] twenty cubits long; one wing [of the one cherub was] five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing [was likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.12 And [one] wing of the other cherub [was] five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing [was] five cubits [also], joining to the wing of the other cherub.13 The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits, and they stood on their feet, and their faces [were] inward.14 And he made the veil [of] blue and purple and crimson and fine linen and wrought cherubim thereon.15 Also he made in front of the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits high, and the chapiter that [was] on the top of each of them [was] five cubits.16 And he made chains, [as] in the oracle, and put [them] on the heads of the pillars and made one hundred pomegranates and put [them] on the chains.17 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand and the other on the left, and called the name of the one on the right hand Jachin, and the name of the one on the left Boaz.: