2 Chronicles 3 :: Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Building the Temple

(1Ki 6:1–22 )

Then Solomon began to build the LORD’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where the LORD[fn] had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan[fn] the Jebusite.

2Ch 3:2

He began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

2Ch 3:3

These are Solomon’s foundations[fn] for building God’s temple: the length[fn] was ninety feet,[fn] and the width thirty feet.[fn]

2Ch 3:4

The portico, which was across the front extending across the width of the temple, was thirty feet wide; its height was thirty feet;[fn] he overlaid its inner surface with pure gold.

2Ch 3:5

The larger room[fn] he paneled with cypress wood, overlaid with fine gold, and decorated with palm trees and chains.

2Ch 3:6

He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was the gold of Parvaim.

2Ch 3:7

He overlaid the temple — the beams, the thresholds, its walls and doors — with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

The Most Holy Place

2Ch 3:8

Then he made the most holy place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple, 30 feet, and its width was 30 feet. He overlaid it with forty-five thousand pounds[fn] of fine gold.

2Ch 3:9

The weight of the nails was twenty ounces[fn] of gold, and he overlaid the ceiling with gold.

2Ch 3:10

He made two cherubim of sculptured work, for the most holy place, and he overlaid them with gold.

2Ch 3:11

The overall length of the wings of the cherubim was 30 feet: the wing of one was 7 ¹/₂ feet,[fn] touching the wall of the room; its other wing was 7 ¹/₂ feet, touching the wing of the other cherub.

2Ch 3:12

The wing of the other[fn] cherub was 7 ¹/₂ feet, touching the wall of the room; its other wing was 7 ¹/₂ feet, reaching the wing of the other cherub.

2Ch 3:13

The wingspan of these cherubim was 30 feet. They stood on their feet and faced the larger room.[fn]

2Ch 3:14

He made the curtain of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, and he wove cherubim into it.

The Bronze Pillars

2Ch 3:15

In front of the temple he made two pillars, each 27 feet[fn] high. The capital on top of each was 7 ¹/₂ feet high.

2Ch 3:16

He had made chainwork in the inner sanctuary and also put it on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork.

2Ch 3:17

Then he set up the pillars in front of the sanctuary, one on the right and one on the left. He named the one on the right Jachin[fn] and the one on the left Boaz.[fn]