1 Thus Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where He had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2 And he began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

3 This is the foundation which Solomon laid for building the house of God: The length was sixty cubits (by cubits according to the former measure) and the width twenty cubits.

4 And the porch that was in front of the sanctuary was twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and the height was one hundred and twenty. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

5 The great house he paneled with cypress which he covered with fine gold, and he put palm trees and chains on it.

6 And he overlaid the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was gold from Parvaim.

7 He also covered the house, the beams and thresholds, its walls and doors, with gold; and he engraved cherubim on the walls.

8 And he made the house of the Holy of Holies. Its length was the same as the front of the house, twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits. He covered it with six hundred talents of fine gold.

9 The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold; and he covered the upper chambers with gold.

10 In the house of the Holy of Holies he made two cherubim of sculpted work, and overlaid them with gold.

11 The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits in length: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, touching the wall of the room, and the other wing was five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherub;

12 one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, touching the wall of the room, and the other wing also was five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherub.

13 The wings of these cherubim stretching out twenty cubits; standing on their feet, facing the house.

14 And he made the veil of violet, purple, crimson, and fine linen, with raised cherubim.

15 He also made in front of the house two pillars thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

16 He made chains, as in the inner sanctuary, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

17 And he set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand and the other on the left; he called the name of the one on the right hand Jachin, and the name of the one on the left Boaz.

1 Então Salomão começou a construir o templo do Senhor em Jerusalém, no monte Moriá, onde o Senhor havia aparecido a seu pai Davi, na eira de Araúna, o jebuseu. Local providenciado por Davi.

2 Ele começou a construir no segundo dia do segundo mês do quarto ano de seu reinado.

3 Os alicerces que Salomão lançou para o templo de Deus tinham vinte e sete metros de comprimento e nove metros de largura, pela medida antiga.

4 O pórtico da entrada do templo tinha nove metros de largura e nove metros de altura. Ele revestiu de ouro puro o seu interior.

5 Recobriu de pinho o átrio principal, revestiu-o de ouro puro e o decorou com desenhos de tamareiras e correntes.

6 Ornamentou o templo com pedras preciosas. O ouro utilizado era de Parvaim.

7 Também revestiu de ouro as vigas do forro, os batentes, as paredes e as portas do templo, e esculpiu querubins nas paredes.

8 Fez o Lugar Santíssimo, com nove metros de comprimento e nove metros de largura, igual à largura do templo. Revestiu de vinte e uma toneladas de ouro puro o seu interior.

9 Os pregos de ouro pesavam seiscentos gramas. Também revestiu de ouro as salas superiores.

10 No Lugar Santíssimo esculpiu e revestiu de ouro dois querubins,

11 os quais, de asas abertas, mediam juntos nove metros. Cada asa, de dois metros e vinte e cinco centímetros, tocava, de um lado, na parede do templo,

12 e do outro lado, na asa do outro querubim.

13 Assim os querubins, com asas que se estendiam por nove metros, estavam de pé, de frente para o átrio principal.

14 Ele fez o véu de tecido azul, roxo, vermelho e linho fino com querubins desenhados nele.

15 Fez na frente do templo duas colunas, que juntas tinham dezesseis metros, cada uma tendo em cima um capitel com dois metros e vinte e cinco centímetros.

16 E fez correntes entrelaçadas e colocou-as no alto das colunas. Fez também cem romãs, colocando-as nas correntes.

17 Então levantou as colunas na frente do templo, uma ao sul, outra ao norte; à que ficava ao sul deu o nome de Jaquim, e à que ficava ao norte, Boaz.