| Berean Study Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. | 1So Solomon began to build the Temple of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to David, his father. The Temple was built on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the site that David had selected. |
| 2Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. | 2The construction began in midspring, during the fourth year of Solomon’s reign. |
| 3The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard. | 3These are the dimensions Solomon used for the foundation of the Temple of God (using the old standard of measurement). It was 90 feet long and 30 feet wide. |
| 4The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold. | 4The entry room at the front of the Temple was 30 feet wide, running across the entire width of the Temple, and 30 feet high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold. |
| 5He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains. | 5He paneled the main room of the Temple with cypress wood, overlaid it with fine gold, and decorated it with carvings of palm trees and chains. |
| 6He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim. | 6He decorated the walls of the Temple with beautiful jewels and with gold from the land of Parvaim. |
| 7He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls. | 7He overlaid the beams, thresholds, walls, and doors throughout the Temple with gold, and he carved figures of cherubim on the walls. |
| 8Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold. | 8He made the Most Holy Place 30 feet wide, corresponding to the width of the Temple, and 30 feet deep. He overlaid its interior with 23 tons of fine gold. |
| 9The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper area with gold. | 9The gold nails that were used weighed 20 ounces each. He also overlaid the walls of the upper rooms with gold. |
| 10In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of sculptured work, and he overlaid them with gold. | 10He made two figures shaped like cherubim, overlaid them with gold, and placed them in the Most Holy Place. |
| 11The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the wall of the temple, and its other wing was five cubits long and touched the wing of the other cherub. | 11The total wingspan of the two cherubim standing side by side was 30 feet. One wing of the first figure was 7 1/2 feet long, and it touched the Temple wall. The other wing, also 7 1/2 feet long, touched one of the wings of the second figure. |
| 12The wing of the second cherub also measured five cubits and touched the wall of the temple, while its other wing measured five cubits and touched the wing of the first cherub. | 12In the same way, the second figure had one wing 7 1/2 feet long that touched the opposite wall. The other wing, also 7 1/2 feet long, touched the wing of the first figure. |
| 13So the total wingspan of these cherubim was twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main room. | 13So the wingspan of the two cherubim side by side was 30 feet. They stood on their feet and faced out toward the main room of the Temple. |
| 14He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it. | 14Across the entrance of the Most Holy Place he hung a curtain made of fine linen, decorated with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and embroidered with figures of cherubim. |
| 15In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits. | 15For the front of the Temple, he made two pillars that were 27 feet tall, each topped by a capital extending upward another 7 1/2 feet. |
| 16He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork. | 16He made a network of interwoven chains and used them to decorate the tops of the pillars. He also made 100 decorative pomegranates and attached them to the chains. |
| 17Then he set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south and one on the north. The pillar on the south he named Jachin, and the pillar on the north he named Boaz. | 17Then he set up the two pillars at the entrance of the Temple, one to the south of the entrance and the other to the north. He named the one on the south Jakin, and the one on the north Boaz. |
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