1 Então Salomão começou a construir o templo do Senhor em Jerusalém, no monte Moriá, onde o Senhor havia aparecido a seu pai, Davi. O templo foi construído na eira de Araúna, o jebuseu, o local escolhido por Davi. 2 A construção começou no segundo dia do segundo mês do quarto ano do reinado de Salomão.

3 O alicerce do templo de Deus construído por Salomão tinha 27 metros de comprimento e 9 metros de largura, conforme a medida antiga. 4 A sala de entrada na frente do templo media 9 metros de largura, a mesma largura do templo, e 9 metros de altura. Salomão revestiu seu interior com ouro puro.

5 Cobriu todas as paredes do salão principal do templo com madeira de cipreste revestida com ouro puro e enfeitada com entalhes de palmeiras e de correntes. 6 Enfeitou as paredes do templo com pedras preciosas e com ouro da terra de Parvaim. 7 Revestiu com ouro as vigas, os batentes, as paredes e as portas de todo o templo e entalhou nas paredes figuras de querubins.

8 Fez o lugar santíssimo com 9 metros de largura, a mesma largura do templo, e 9 metros de comprimento. Revestiu seu interior com 21 toneladas de ouro puro. 9 Cada um dos pregos de ouro pesava 600 gramas. Também revestiu com ouro as paredes das salas superiores.

10 Fez duas figuras em forma de querubins, as revestiu com ouro e as colocou no lugar santíssimo. 11 As asas abertas dos querubins mediam, juntas, 9 metros. Uma das asas do primeiro querubim media 2,25 metros e tocava a parede do templo. A outra asa, que também media 2,25 metros, tocava a asa do segundo querubim. 12 De igual modo, uma das asas do segundo querubim media 2,25 metros e tocava a parede oposta. A outra asa, que também media 2,25 metros, tocava a asa do primeiro querubim. 13 Portanto, as asas abertas dos querubins mediam, juntas, 9 metros. Os querubins ficavam em pé, de frente para o salão principal do templo.

14 Na entrada do lugar santíssimo, colocou uma cortina de linho fino, enfeitada com fio azul, púrpura e vermelho, e bordada com figuras de querubins.

15 Para a frente do templo, fez duas colunas, cada uma com 8,1 metros de altura e com um capitel de 2,25 metros de altura. 16 Fez conjuntos de correntes entrelaçadas e os colocou para enfeitar o alto das colunas. Também fez cem romãs decorativas e as prendeu às correntes. 17 Depois, levantou as duas colunas na frente do templo, uma ao sul da entrada e outra ao norte. Chamou a coluna ao sul de Jaquim, e a coluna ao norte, de Boaz.

1 Then Solomon began to build the house of LORD at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where [LORD] appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing-floor 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 foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

4 And the porch that was before [the house], the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty. And he overlaid it inside with pure gold.

5 And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought 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 also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, and the walls of it, and the doors of it, with gold, and engraved cherubim on the walls.

8 And he made the most holy house; the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the breadth of it 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 cherubim of image work, and they overlaid them with gold.

11 And 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 [likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

12 And the 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 cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits. And they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.

14 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.

15 Also he made two pillars before the house of thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

16 And he made chains in the oracle, and put [them] on the tops of the pillars. And he made a hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

17 And 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.