1 And Solomon begins to build the house of YHWH in Jerusalem, on the mount of Moriah where He appeared to his father David, in the place that David had prepared, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, 2 and he begins to build in the second day, in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. 3 And in these Solomon has been instructed to build the house of God: the length in cubits by the former measure is sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. 4 As for the porch that is on the front, the length is by the front of the breadth of the house—twenty cubits, and the height one hundred and twenty, and he overlays it within with pure gold. 5 And he has covered the large house with fir-trees, and he covers it with fine gold, and causes palms and chains to ascend on it, 6 and he overlays the house with precious stone for beauty, and the gold is gold of Parvaim, 7 and he covers the house, the beams, the thresholds, and its walls, and its doors, with gold, and has engraved cherubs on the walls. 8 And he makes the most holy house: its length by the front of the breadth of the house—twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits, and he covers it with six hundred talents of fine gold; 9 and the weight of the nails is fifty shekels of gold, and he has covered the upper chambers with gold. 10 And he makes two cherubs in the most holy house, image work, and he overlays them with gold; 11 as for the wings of the cherubs, their length is twenty cubits, the wing of the one is five cubits, touching the wall of the house, and the other wing is five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherub. 12 And the wing of the other cherub is five cubits touching the wall of the house, and the other wing is five cubits, adhering to the wing of the other cherub. 13 The wings of these cherubs are spreading out twenty cubits, and they are standing on their feet and their faces are inward. 14 And he makes the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and causes cherubs to go up on it. 15 And he makes two pillars at the front of the house, thirty-five cubits in length, and the ornament that is on their heads is five cubits. 16 And he makes chains in the oracle, and puts them on the heads of the pillars, and makes one hundred pomegranates, and puts them on the chains. 17 And he raises up the pillars on the front of the temple, one on the right and one on the left, and calls the name of that on the right Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.