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title: 2 Chronicles 3
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**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.