¹So Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, who had made preparations on David's site at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. ²And he began to build in the second month, on the second day, in the fourth year of his reign. ³So by these things Solomon was moved to initiate building the house of God. The length in cubits by the former system was sixty cubits, and the width was twenty cubits. ⁴And the portico which was in front had a length across the width of the house – twenty cubits. And its height was one hundred and twenty cubits. And he overlaid it on the inside with pure gold. ⁵And he panelled the great house with cypress wood, and he overlaid it with fine gold, and he set palm tree figures and chains on it. ⁶And he overlaid the house with expensive stone for its splendour. And the gold was Parvaim gold. ⁷And he overlaid the house – the beams and the thresholds and its walls and its doors with gold, and he engraved cherubim on the walls. ⁸And he made the room of the holy of holies, whose length was in accordance with the width of the house – twenty cubits – and its width was twenty cubits, and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. ⁹And the weight of the nails was equal to that of fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper rooms with gold. ¹⁰And in the room of the holy of holies he made two cherubim – carved work – and the gilders overlaid them with gold. ¹¹As for the wings of the cherubim, their length was twenty cubits. One wing had a length of five cubits, touching the wall of the room, while the other wing of five cubits touched the wing of the other cherub. ¹²And the wing of the other cherub was five cubits in length, touching the wall of the room, and the other wing was five cubits, adjoining the wing of the other cherub. ¹³The wings of these cherubim extended to twenty cubits, and they stood on their feet with their faces directed inwards. ¹⁴And he made the veil of cerulean blue and purple and crimson material, and byssus, and he set up cherubim on it. ¹⁵And in front of the house he made two columns, thirty-five cubits in height, and the capital which was on top of them was five cubits high. ¹⁶And he made a work in chains in the place of address, and he put it on top of the columns, and he made one hundred pomegranates and put them on the work in chains. ¹⁷And he erected the columns alongside the temple, one on the right and one on the left, and he called the right hand one Jachin, and the left hand one Boaz.