2Chr 3
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Then Solomon began to build the house of YHWH at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where
[YHWH] appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had
appointed, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year
of his reign.
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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 threescore cubits, and the breadth
twenty cubits.
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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 within with pure gold.
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And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and
wrought thereon palm-trees and chains.
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And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold
of Parvaim.
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He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and its walls, and
its doors, with gold; and graved cherubim on the walls.
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And he made the most holy house: its length, according to the breadth of the
house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits; and he overlaid it
with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
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And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers
with gold.
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And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them
with gold.
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And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the 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.
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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.
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The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood
on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.
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And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought
cherubim thereon.
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Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the
capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
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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.
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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.