3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of ①Ornan the Jebusite.
▷ ①In 2 Sam 24:18, Araunah
3:2 He began to build on the second day in the second month ①of the fourth year of his reign.
▷ ①Lit in
3:3 Now these are the ①foundations which Solomon laid for building the house of God. The length in cubits, according to the old standard, was ②sixty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.
▷ ①Lit founding of Solomon to build ②About 90 ft. long and 30 ft. wide or 27 m long and 9 m wide
3:4 The porch which was in front of the house was as long as the width of the house, ①twenty cubits, and the height ②twenty; and inside he overlaid it with pure gold.
▷ ①About 30 ft. or 9 m ②As in ancient versions; MT 120 cubits or about 180 ft. or 55 m
3:5 He overlaid the ①main room with juniper wood and overlaid it with fine gold; and he ②ornamented it with palm trees and chains.
▷ ①Lit great house ②Lit put on it palm trees
3:6 Further, he overlaid the house ①with precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.
▷ ①Lit for beauty
3:7 He also overlaid the house with gold—the beams, the thresholds, and its walls and doors; and he carved cherubim on the walls.
3:8 Then he made the ①room of the Most Holy Place: its length across the width of the house was ②twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to ③six hundred talents.
▷ ①Lit house ②About 30 ft. or 9 m ③About 23 tons or 21 metric tons
3:9 The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
3:10 Then he made two ①sculptured cherubim in the room of the Most Holy Place and overlaid them with gold.
▷ ①Lit cherubim of cast work
3:11 The wingspan of the ①cherubim was twenty ②cubits; the wing of one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub.
▷ ①Heb plural of cherub ②About 18 in. or 45 cm
3:12 The wing of the other cherub, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house; and its other wing, of five cubits, was attached to the wing of the ①first cherub.
▷ ①Lit other
3:13 The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits, and they stood on their feet ①facing the main room.
▷ ①Lit and their faces to
3:14 He made the veil of violet, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and he worked cherubim into it.
3:15 He also made two pillars for the front of the house, thirty-five cubits ①high, and the capital on the top of each was five cubits.
▷ ①Lit long
3:16 He made chains in the inner sanctuary and placed them on the tops of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates and placed them on the chains.
3:17 He erected the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right and the other on the left, and named the one on the right Jachin and the one on the left Boaz.