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The Second Book of the Chronicles

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- Chapter 3 -

(1 Kings 6:1–4)
1
Then Solomon’s workers started to build the temple for Yahweh in Jerusalem. They built it on Mount Moriah, where an angel from Yahweh had appeared to his father David. They built it on the ground that Ornan, a descendant of the Jebus people group, had sold to David and where David said that it should be built.
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They began the work on the second day of the second month, when Solomon had been ruling almost four years.
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The foundation of the temple was twenty-seven meters long and nine meters wide.
4
The entrance room across the front of the temple was also nine meters long, the same as the temple’s width. The entrance room was also nine meters high. Solomon caused workmen to coat the interior of the entrance room with thin sheets of pure gold.

The Temple’s Interior

(1 Kings 6:14–22)
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Solomon’s workers used panels of pine wood to line the main hall of the temple. Then they covered those panels with very thin sheets of pure gold. On them they carved images of palm trees and designs that resembled chains.
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They decorated the temple with very valuable stones. The gold that they used was from the land of Parvaim.
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They covered the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with very thin sheets of gold. They also carved statues of winged creatures on the walls.
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They also built the very holy place inside the temple. It was nine meters long, the same as the temple’s width. The width of the very holy place was the same. They covered its walls with sheets of pure gold that altogether weighed about twenty metric tons.
9
Each gold nail weighed about one-half a kilogram. They also covered the walls of the upper rooms with thin sheets of gold.

The Cherubim

(1 Kings 6:23–30)
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Solomon’s workers made two statues of creatures with wings to put inside the very holy place. They covered those statues with very thin sheets of gold.
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Each statue had two long wings. One wing of each statue touched the wall of the temple. The other wing of each statue touched a wing of the other statue.
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The wingspan of each cherub was about four and three-fifths meters across. One wing of each cherub touched the wall, while the other reached to the middle of the room and touched the inner wing of the other cherub. Each wing was two and one-third meters long.
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It was nine meters from the outer wing of the one statue to the outer wing of the other statue. The statues faced the doorway leading to the main room.

The Veil and Pillars

(1 Kings 7:13–22)
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Solomon’s workers made a curtain to separate the main room from the very holy place. It was made of blue, purple, and red thread and fine linen. Figures of winged creatures were embroidered on the curtain.
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They made two bronze pillars and put them at the entrance of the temple. They were each sixteen meters high. A separate piece was attached to the top of each pillar; each of the top pieces was two and one-third meters high.
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The workers made carvings that resembled chains and put them on top of the pillars. They made carvings that resembled pomegranates and attached them to the chains. There were one hundred of them.
17
They set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south side of the entrance and the other on the north side. The one on the south side was named Jakin and the one on the north side was named Boaz.
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(1 Kings 6:1–4)
1
Then Solomon began to build the LORD’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2
He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
3
Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of God’s house: the length by cubits(a) after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.
4
The porch that was in front, its length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

The Temple’s Interior

(1 Kings 6:14–22)
5
He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.
6
He decorated the house with precious stones for beauty. The gold was gold from Parvaim.
7
He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold, and engraved cherubim on the walls.
8
He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.(b)
9
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels (c) of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

The Cherubim

(1 Kings 6:23–30)
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In the most holy place he made two cherubim by carving, and they overlaid them with gold.
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The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
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The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
13
The wings of these cherubim spread themselves out twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.

The Veil and Pillars

(1 Kings 7:13–22)
14
He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim.
15
Also he made before the house two pillars thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
16
He made chains in the inner sanctuary, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
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He set 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.

Footnotes

(a)3:3 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.
(b)3:8 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 600 talents is about 18 metric tons
(c)3:9 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 50 shekels was about 0.5 kilograms or about 16 Troy ounces.
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