1 Kings 6:1

1 Kings 6:1-38

¹And it happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year in the month of Ziv, that is the second month, of Solomon’s reign over Israel, that he built the house for YHWH. ²And the house that King Solomon built for YHWH — sixty cubits was its length, and twenty its width, and thirty cubits its height. ³And the portico in front of the temple of the house: twenty cubits was its length, along the width of the house; ten cubits was its width in front of the house. ⁴And he made for the house windows with closed frames. ⁵And he built against the wall of the house an annex all around, against the walls of the house all around the temple and the inner sanctuary; and he made side chambers all around. ⁶The lower annex was five cubits wide, and the middle one six cubits wide, and the third seven cubits wide; for he had put offsets on the house all around on the outside, so as not to fasten into the walls of the house. ⁷And the house, when it was built, was built of whole stone from the quarry; and hammer or axe, any tool of iron, was not heard in the house while it was being built. ⁸The entrance of the middle side chamber was on the right side of the house; and by spiral stairs they went up to the middle one, and from the middle one to the third. ⁹So he built the house and finished it, and he roofed the house with coffers and rows of cedar. ¹⁰And he built the annex against all the house, five cubits its height, and it fastened onto the house with timbers of cedar. ¹¹And the word of YHWH came to Solomon, saying, ¹²“As for this house that you are building, if you walk in my statutes and put into practice my rules and keep all my commandments by walking in them, then I will confirm my word with you that I spoke to David your father; ¹³and I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel, and I will not abandon my people Israel.” ¹⁴So Solomon built the house and finished it. ¹⁵And he built the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling he overlaid them with wood on the inside; and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress. ¹⁶And he built the twenty cubits at the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls; and he built them for it on the inside as an inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place. ¹⁷And forty cubits was the house, that is the temple in front. ¹⁸And the cedar of the house inside had carvings of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar; no stone was seen. ¹⁹And the inner sanctuary in the midst of the house on the inside he prepared, to put there the ark of the covenant of YHWH. ²⁰And the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits its height; and he overlaid it with fine gold; and he overlaid an altar of cedar. ²¹And Solomon overlaid the house on the inside with fine gold; and he drew chains of gold across the front of the inner sanctuary and overlaid it with gold. ²²And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished; and the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold. ²³And he made in the inner sanctuary two cherubim of olive wood, ten cubits was its height. ²⁴And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: ten cubits from the tip of its wings to the tip of its wings.

2 Chronicles 3:1-14

¹Solomon began to build the house of YHWH in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where he had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had prepared, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. ²He began to build in the second month, on the second day, in the fourth year of his reign. ³These are the measures with which Solomon laid the foundations for building the house of Elohim: the length, in cubits of the old measure, was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits. ⁴The portico that was at the front, along the length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it inside with pure gold. ⁵The great house he covered with cypress wood, and covered it with good gold, and put on it palm trees and chains. ⁶He overlaid the house with precious stone for beauty; and the gold was gold of Parvaim. ⁷He covered the house —the beams, the thresholds, its walls and its doors— with gold, and he engraved cherubim on the walls. ⁸He made the house of the Most Holy Place: its length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he covered it with good gold, amounting to six hundred talents. ⁹The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And the upper rooms he covered with gold. ¹⁰He made in the house of the Most Holy Place two cherubim, a work of sculpture, and they overlaid them with gold. ¹¹The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits in length: the wing of the one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house; and the other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub. ¹²And the wing of the one cherub, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house; and the other wing, of five cubits, was joined to the wing of the other cherub. ¹³The wings of these cherubim spread out twenty cubits; and they stood on their feet, with their faces toward the house. ¹⁴He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and put on it cherubim.