2 Chronicles 3 At length Solomon began building the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, on mount Amoria, where the Lord appeared to his father David; in the place which David had prepared at the threshing floor of Orna, the Jebusite.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ At length Solomon began building the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, on mount Amoria, where the Lord appeared to his father David; in the place which David had prepared at the threshing floor of Orna, the Jebusite. ² He began building in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. ³ And these were the mensurations, with which Solomon began to build the house of God. ⁴ The first measurement was in length sixty cubits, and in breadth twenty cubits, including an ailam in front of the house of the same breadth, as that of the house, twenty cubits, and the height of which was a hundred and twenty cubits. And he overlaid the house on the inside, with pure gold. ⁵ When he had wainscotted this great house with planks of cedar, he overlaid them with pure gold, and engraved upon it, palm trees and chains, ⁶ and he adorned the house with precious stones for glory, and gilded it with the choicest gold from Pharuim; ⁷ and having gilded the house, both the walls and the gates, and the vaulted ceilings, and the doors, with gold, he engraved cherubims on the walls. ⁸ And he made the house of the Holy of Holies. Its breadth was in front, the same as that of the house, twenty cubits and its length twenty cubits; and he overlaid it for cherubims, with pure gold, to the amount of six hundred talents; ⁹ and with regard to the weight of the nails, each nail weighed fifty shekels of gold. The upper chamber he overlaid with gold. ¹⁰ And in this house, namely in the Holy of Holies, he made two cherubims, a workmanship of wood, and overlaid them with gold. ¹¹ The extent of the wings of the cherubims was twenty cubits, ¹² one wing of five cubits touching the wall of the house, and the other wing of five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherubim reciprocally; ¹³ so that the wings of the cherubims, were expanded twenty cubits, and they stood upon their feet and their faces were towards the house. ¹⁴ And he made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet and cotton yarn, and wove cherubims therein. ¹⁵ And he made before the house two pillars thirty five cubits high, including the chapiters of five cubits. ¹⁶ And he made net works and put them on the chapiters of the pillars, and he made a hundred pomegranates, and fixed them to the net works. ¹⁷ And he reared up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right, and one on the left, and he called the name of that on the right Rectitude, and the name of that on the left, Strength.