2 Chronicles 3:1-9 ▼

1 And Solomon began to buylde the house of the Lorde at Hierusalem in mount Moria where the Lorde appeared vnto Dauid his father, euen in the place that Dauid prepared in the thresshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite.

2 And he began to buylde in the seconde day of the seconde moneth, the fourth yere of his raigne.

3 And these are the patternes whereby Solomon was instruct to buylde the house of God: The length was threescore cubites after the olde measure, and the breadth twentie cubites.

4 And the porche that was before the length in the front, according to the breadth of the house, was twentie cubites, and the heyght was an hundred and twentie cubites: and he ouerlayed it on the inner syde with pure golde.

5 And the greater house he seeled with firre tree, whiche he ouerlayed with the best golde, and graued thereto paulme trees and chaynes.

6 And he ouerlayed the house with precious stone beautyfully: And the golde was golde of Paruaim.

7 The house I say the beames, postes, walles, and doores therof, ouerlayed he with golde, and graued Cherubs on the walles.

8 And he made the house most holy: whose length was twentie cubites like to the breadth of the house, and the breadth therof was also twentie cubites: and he ouerlayed it with good golde, euen with sixe hundred talentes.

9 And the wayght of the nayles of golde was fiftie sicles: and he ouerlayed the vpper chambers with golde.