2 Chronicles 3 Cross References - NSB

¹ Solomon began to build Jehovah’s Temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. That is where Jehovah appeared to his father David. David had prepared the site on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. ² He began to build on the second day in the second month of the fourth year of his reign. It was in the place David had povided. ³ This is how Solomon laid the foundation to build God’s Temple. It was ninety feet long and thirty feet wide. (They used the old standard measurement.) ⁴ The entrance hall in front of the main room was thirty feet wide (the same as the width of the temple) and thirty feet high. He covered its inside walls with pure gold. ⁵ He paneled the larger building with cypress. Then he overlaid it with fine gold. It was decorated with designs in the form of palm trees and chains. ⁶ He covered the building with gems to beautify it and used gold from Parvaim. ⁷ He also overlaid the building, the rafters, the threshold, the walls, and the doors with gold. He carved cherubim (angels) on the walls. ⁸ He made the most holy place. It was as long as the Temple was wide, thirty feet long. It was also thirty feet wide. He overlaid it with forty-five thousand pounds of fine gold. ⁹ The gold nails weighed twenty ounces. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold. ¹⁰ In the most holy place he made two sculptured cherubim (angels) and covered them with gold. ¹¹ The combined length of the cherubim wings was thirty feet. A wing of one of the cherub was seven and one half feet long and touched the wall of the building. Its other wing was seven and one half feet long and touched one wing of the other cherub. ¹² The wing of the other one of the cherub (angels) was seven and one half feet long and touched the other wall of the building. Its other wing was seven and one half feet long and touched the wing of the first cherub. So the cherubs’ combined wingspan was thirty feet. ¹³ They stood on their feet facing the main hall. ¹⁴ Solomon made the canopy of violet, purple, and dark red cloth and of linen and decorated it with cherubim. ¹⁵ He made two pillars for the front of the Temple. They were fifty-three feet long, and the crown on each pillar was seven and one half feet high. ¹⁶ He made chains for the inner room and also put them on the crowns. He made one hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains. ¹⁷ He set up the pillars in front of the Temple, one on the right and the other on the left. He named the one on the right Jachin (He Establishes) and the one on the left Boaz (In Him Is Strength).

² »Take your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.«

¹⁴ Abraham named that place »Jehovah Will Provide.« It is still said today: »It will be provided on the mountain of Jehovah.«

¹⁸ »Hammer out two winged cherubs of pure gold and fasten them to the lid at the ends of the chest.

²⁰ »The cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the chest with their wings and facing one another. The faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the chest.

¹ »Construct the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet material. Make them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.

²⁹ »Cover the frames with gold. Make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Cover the crossbars with gold.

³¹ »Build a canopy of violet, purple, and bright red yarn. Creatively work an angel design of cherubim into fine linen yarn. ³² »Hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold. Their hooks should also be of gold, on four sockets of silver. ³³ »Hang up the veil under the clasps. Bring in the Ark of the Covenant there within the veil. The veil shall serve for you as a partition between the holy place and the holy of holies.

³³ »Hang up the veil under the clasps. Bring in the Ark of the Covenant there within the veil. The veil shall serve for you as a partition between the holy place and the holy of holies. ³⁴ »Place the mercy seat on the Ark of the Covenant in the holy of holies. ³⁵ »Set the table outside the veil. Place the lamp stand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south. Place the table on the north side.

¹⁸ Gad came to David and said: »Go, set up an altar for Jehovah at Araunah the Jebusite’s threshing floor.« ¹⁹ David obeyed Jehovah’s command and went as Gad had told him to. ²⁰ Araunah saw David and his soldiers coming toward him. He went over to David and bowed down low, ²¹ and said: »My lord the king! Why have you come to see me?« David answered: »I came to buy your threshing place. I have to build Jehovah an altar here, so this disease will stop killing the people.« ²² Araunah said: »Take what you want and offer your sacrifice. Here are some cattle for the sacrifice. You can use the threshing-boards and the wooden yokes for the fire.« ²³ Araunah gave this to the king and said: »May Jehovah your God accept you.« ²⁴ »No!« The king said to Araunah. »I must buy it from you at a fair price. I will not offer Jehovah my God burnt sacrifices that cost me nothing.« So David bought the threshing floor and the cattle for one and one quarter pounds of silver. ²⁵ David built an altar for Jehovah there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. So Jehovah heard the prayers for the country. The plague on Israel stopped.

¹⁵ The inside walls were covered with cedar panels from the floor to the ceiling. The floor was made of pine. ¹⁶ An inner room, called the Most Holy Place, was built in the rear of the Temple. It was thirty feet long and was partitioned off by cedar boards reaching from the floor to the ceiling.

¹⁶ An inner room, called the Most Holy Place, was built in the rear of the Temple. It was thirty feet long and was partitioned off by cedar boards reaching from the floor to the ceiling. ¹⁷ The room in front of the Most Holy Place was sixty feet long.

¹⁹ An inner room was built in the rear of the Temple. The Ark of the Covenant was to be placed there. ²⁰ This inner room was thirty feet long, thirty feet wide, and thirty feet high, all covered with pure gold. The altar was covered with cedar panels.

²⁰ This inner room was thirty feet long, thirty feet wide, and thirty feet high, all covered with pure gold. The altar was covered with cedar panels. ²¹ The inside of the Temple was covered with gold. Gold chains were placed across the entrance of the inner room.

²¹ The inside of the Temple was covered with gold. Gold chains were placed across the entrance of the inner room. ²² The whole interior of the Temple was covered with gold, as well as the altar in the Most Holy Place. ²³ Two cherubim made of olive wood were placed in the Most Holy Place. Each one was fifteen feet tall. ²⁴ Each had two wings, each wing was seven and one half feet long. The distance from one wing tip to the other was fifteen feet. ²⁵ The other cherub was fifteen feet tall. ²⁶ Both were the same size and shape. ²⁷ They were placed side by side in the Most Holy Place. Their outstretched wings touched each other in the middle of the room, and the other two wings touched the walls. ²⁸ The two cherubim were covered with gold. ²⁹ The walls of the main room and of the inner room were all decorated with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and flowers. ³⁰ Even the floor was covered with gold. ³¹ A double door made of olive wood was hung at the entrance of the Most Holy Place. There was a pointed arch on top of the doorway. ³² The doors were decorated with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and flowers. The doors, the cherubim, and the palm trees were covered with gold. ³³ A rectangular doorframe of olive wood was made for the entrance to the main room. ³⁴ There were two folding doors made of pine ³⁵ and decorated with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and flowers, which were evenly covered with gold.

¹⁵ Huram cast two copper columns. Each one was twenty-seven feet tall and eighteen feet in circumference. They were placed at the entrance of the Temple. ¹⁶ He also made two copper crowns. Each one was seven and one half feet tall. They were to be placed on top of the columns. ¹⁷ The top of each column was decorated with a design of interwoven chains. ¹⁸ They had two rows of copper pomegranates. ¹⁹ The crowns on the top of the columns were shaped like lilies, six feet tall, ²⁰ and were placed on a rounded section which was above the chain design. There were two hundred pomegranates in two rows around each crown.

²⁰ and were placed on a rounded section which was above the chain design. There were two hundred pomegranates in two rows around each crown. ²¹ Huram placed these two copper columns in front of the entrance of the Temple. The column on the south side was named Jachin and the one on the north was named Boaz.

²¹ Huram placed these two copper columns in front of the entrance of the Temple. The column on the south side was named Jachin and the one on the north was named Boaz. ²² The lily-shaped copper crowns were on top of the columns. The work on the columns was completed. ²³ Hiram made a round tank of copper, seven and one half feet deep, fifteen feet in diameter, and forty-five feet in circumference. ²⁴ All around the outer edge of the rim of the tank were two rows of copper gourds. They were all cast in one piece with the rest of the tank.

¹ Solomon began work on the Temple. It was four hundred and eighty years after the people of Israel left Egypt, during the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the second month, the month of Ziv.

¹ Solomon began work on the Temple. It was four hundred and eighty years after the people of Israel left Egypt, during the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the second month, the month of Ziv. ² The Temple Solomon built was ninety feet long, thirty feet wide, and forty-five feet high inside.

² The Temple Solomon built was ninety feet long, thirty feet wide, and forty-five feet high inside. ³ The entrance room was fifteen feet deep and thirty feet wide. It was as wide as the sanctuary.

³ The entrance room was fifteen feet deep and thirty feet wide. It was as wide as the sanctuary. ⁴ He made windows for the Temple. Their openings were narrower on the outside than on the inside. ⁵ A third-story annex, seven and one half feet high, was built against the outside walls. It was on the sides and the back of the Temple. ⁶ Each room in the lowest story was seven and one half feet wide. The middle story was nine feet wide. The top story was ten and one half feet wide. The Temple wall on each floor was thinner than on the floor below, so that the rooms could rest on the wall without having their beams built into it. ⁷ The stones with which the Temple was built were prepared at the quarry. That way there was no noise made by hammers, axes, or any other iron tools as the Temple was built. ⁸ The entrance to the lowest story of the annex was on the south side of the Temple. It had stairs leading up to the second and third stories. ⁹ King Solomon finished building the Temple. He put in a ceiling made of beams and boards of cedar. ¹⁰ The three-story annex, each story seven and one half feet high, was built against the outside walls of the Temple. Cedar beams were used to join it to them. ¹¹ Jehovah spoke to Solomon: ¹² »If you obey all my laws and commands, I will do for you what I promised your father David. ¹³ »I will live among my people Israel in this Temple that you are building. I will never abandon them.« ¹⁴ Solomon finished building the Temple.

¹⁸ Jehovah’s angel told Gad to command David to go and build an altar to Jehovah at Araunah’s threshing place.

¹ David said: »The house of Jehovah God is to be here, and also the altar of burnt offering for Israel.«

¹¹ Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the entrance hall and the Temple, the storerooms, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the throne of mercy.

¹¹ Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the entrance hall and the Temple, the storerooms, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the throne of mercy. ¹² He gave him plans for the courtyards of Jehovah’s Temple and for all the rooms around it. These rooms served as treasuries for God’s Temple and the gifts dedicated to God. ¹³ He determined the divisions of the priests and Levites. He planned all the work done for worship in Jehovah’s Temple. He designed all the utensils for worship in Jehovah’s Temple. ¹⁴ David specified the weight of gold to be used for each of the utensils for worship, ¹⁵ the weight of the gold lamp stands and their gold lamps that is, the weight of gold for each lamp stand and its lamps, the weight of silver for each silver lamp stand and its lamps according to the use of each lamp stand for worship, ¹⁶ the weight of gold for each table with the rows of bread, and the silver for the silver tables, ¹⁷ the pure gold for the forks, bowls, and pitchers, the weight of each gold bowl, the weight of each silver bowl, ¹⁸ and the refined gold for the altar of incense. He also gave Solomon the plans for the chariot, that is, the gold angels with their wings spread to cover the Ark of Jehovah’s Covenant. ¹⁹ David said: »All this was written for me by Jehovah’s hand. He made all the details of the plan clear to me.«

² »I have made every effort to prepare materials for the Temple: gold, silver, bronze, iron, timber, precious stones and gems, stones for mosaics, and quantities of marble.

⁸ Those who had precious stones gave them to the Temple treasury, which was administered by Jehiel of the Levite clan of Gershon.

¹¹ »O afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will build you with stones of turquoise, your foundations with sapphires. ¹² »I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.

²⁰ The copper from the two pillars, the pool, and the twelve copper bulls under the stands that King Solomon had made for Jehovah’s Temple could not be weighed. ²¹ One pillar was twenty-seven feet high and eighteen feet in circumference. It was three inches thick and hollow. ²² The crown that was on it was seven and one half feet high with filigree and pomegranates around it. They were all made of copper. The second pillar was the same. It also had pomegranates. ²³ There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides. The total number of pomegranates on the surrounding filigree was one hundred.

²⁰ ‘»Once they were proud of their beautiful jewels, but they used them to make disgusting idols. That is why Jehovah has made their wealth repulsive to them.

⁵¹ The veil (curtain) of the temple was ripped in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks split.

²³ It was wintertime. Jesus was walking in the temple on Solomon’s porch (the Colonnade of Solomon).

¹¹ The beggar held on to Peter and John while all the people came to them at the place called Solomon’s Colonnade.

¹² The apostles performed many wonders among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.

³ Beyond the second curtain was a room called »the Most Holy Place.«

⁹ This is a symbol that points to the present time. It means that the offerings and animal sacrifices presented to God cannot make the worshiper’s heart perfect,

¹⁹ Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ by a new and living way, which he consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,

¹⁸ The structure of the wall was jasper: and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. ¹⁹ The foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; ²⁰ the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, hyacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. ²¹ The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each individual gate was one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, as transparent glass.