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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.
02 And he began to build in the second day of the
second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
03 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.
04 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.
05 And the greater house he cieled with fir tree,
which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon
palm trees and chains.
06 And he garnished the house with precious
stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of
Parvaim.
07 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.
08 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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09 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.
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