1 E começou Salomão a edificar a Casa do Senhor em Jerusalém, no monte Moriá, onde o Senhor se tinha mostrado a Davi, seu pai, no lugar que Davi tinha preparado na eira de Ornã, o jebuseu. 2 E começou a edificar no segundo mês, no dia segundo, no ano quarto do seu reinado. 3 E estes foram os fundamentos que Salomão pôs para edificar a Casa de Deus: o comprimento em côvados, segundo a medida primeira, de sessenta côvados, e a largura, de vinte côvados. 4 E o alpendre que estava na frente, de comprimento, segundo a largura da casa, era de vinte côvados, e a altura, de cento e vinte, o que, dentro, cobriu com ouro puro. 5 E a casa grande forrou com madeira de faia, e, então, a cobriu com ouro fino, e fez sobre ela palmas e cadeias. 6 Também a casa adornou de pedras preciosas para ornamento; e o ouro era ouro de Parvaim. 7 Também na casa cobriu as traves, e os umbrais, e as suas paredes, e as suas portas, com ouro; e lavrou querubins nas paredes. 8 Fez mais a Casa da Santidade das Santidades, cujo comprimento, segundo a largura da casa, era de vinte côvados, e a sua largura, de vinte côvados; e cobriu-a de ouro fino, do peso de seiscentos talentos. 9 O peso dos pregos era de cinquenta siclos de ouro; e cobriu de ouro os cenáculos.

10 Também fez na Casa da Santidade das Santidades dois querubins na forma de andantes e cobriu-os de ouro. 11 E, quanto às asas dos querubins, o seu comprimento era de vinte côvados; a asa de um deles, de cinco côvados, tocava na parede da casa; e a outra asa, de cinco côvados, tocava na asa do outro querubim. 12 Também a asa do outro querubim era de cinco côvados e tocava na parede da casa; era também a outra asa de cinco côvados e estava pegada à asa do outro querubim. 13 E as asas desses querubins se estendiam vinte côvados; e estavam postos em pé, e os seus rostos, virados para a casa. 14 Também fez o véu de pano azul, e púrpura, e carmesim, e linho fino; e pôs sobre ele querubins.

15 Fez também diante da casa duas colunas de trinta e cinco côvados de altura; e o capitel, que estava sobre cada uma, era de cinco côvados. 16 Também fez as cadeias, como no oráculo, e as pôs sobre as cabeças das colunas; fez também cem romãs, as quais pôs entre as cadeias. 17 E levantou as colunas diante do templo, uma à direita, e outra à esquerda; e chamou o nome da que estava à direita Jaquim, e o nome da que estava à esquerda, Boaz.

1 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. 2 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. 9 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.