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2 Chronicles 3 |
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Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at
Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his
father, in the place that David had prepared in the
threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. |
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And he began to build in the second day of the second month,
in the fourth year of his reign. |
3 |
Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for
the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the
first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty
cubits. |
4 |
And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length
of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits,
and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it
within with pure gold. |
5 |
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he
overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and
chains. |
6 |
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty:
and the gold was gold of Parvaim. |
7 |
He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the
walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved
cherubims on the walls. |
8 |
And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was
according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the
breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold,
amounting to six hundred talents. |
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And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he
overlaid the upper chambers with gold. |
10 |
And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image
work, and overlaid them with gold. |
11 |
And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one
wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of
the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching
to the wing of the other cherub. |
12 |
And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to
the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also,
joining to the wing of the other cherub. |
13 |
The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty
cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were
inward. |
14 |
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and
fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon. |
15 |
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five
cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them
was five cubits. |
16 |
And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the
heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put
them on the chains. |
17 |
And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the
right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of
that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left
Boaz. |