1And Solomon began to build the house of LORD JEHOVAH in Jerusalem in the mountain of the Amorites, in the place that David his father provided at the threshing floor that he bought from Aran the Yebusite. 2And he began to build the building in it in the second month of the fourth year of his kingdom.

3And these are the measuring lines that Solomon measured to build the house of LORD JEHOVAH: the length of the house, sixty cubits, by the measure of holiness, and its height, thirty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits. 4And he made a porch on its face; its length on the face of the open place of the house, twenty cubits, and its height, twenty cubits, and he overlaid it from within with pure gold. 5And the great house he covered in wood of cypress, and he overlaid the roof of the house with fine gold, and he etched upon it the likeness of palm trees and of lilies. 6And he nailed in the house fine seals for glory, and he overlaid all of it with pure gold. 7And he overlaid the house from the face of the porch, its walls and its doorposts with fine gold, and he etched upon it the likeness of palm trees and of lilies.

8And he made the house of the Holy of Holies; its length by the face of the width of the house, twenty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits, and he overlaid it with pure gold of six hundred talents. 9Also the altar he overlaid with gold.

10And he made in the house of Holiness two Cherubim, a secure work, and he overlaid them in gold.

11And the length of the wings of the Cherubim, twenty cubits; one wing was five cubits and was joined to the wall of the house. 12And the wing of the other Cherub was five cubits and was joined to the wall of the house, and the other wing of five cubits touched the wing of the other Cherub. 13The wings of these Cherubim were spread out twenty cubits, and those were standing on their feet and their faces were inward.

14And he made a curtain of blue fringes and purple and of red and scarlet and fine white linen, and put Cherubim upon it and set the Ark within it.

15And he made in front of the house two great columns, their length eighteen cubits, and planks that were upon their tops, their height of five cubits. 16And he made chains of fifty cubits and he put them on the tops of the columns, and he made a hundred pomegranates and he tied them on the chains. 17And he raised up two columns before the temple, one at the right hand, and one at the left, and he called the name of that which he raised up at the right hand, Yakin, and the name of that which is at the left, Boaz.