1Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, which had appeared to David his father, which he had prepared in the place of David at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.2He began to build in the second month, in the second year of his reign.3These were the foundations that Solomon laid for building the house of God: the length was sixty cubits according to the former measure, and the width twenty cubits.4The hall that was upon the front of the length, upon the front of the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its height was one hundred twenty cubits; he overlaid it on the inside with pure gold.5He covered the large house with cypress wood and overlaid it with pleasant gold; he also raised palm trees and chains upon it.6He overlaid the house with precious stone for beauty, and the gold was gold of Parvaim.7He covered the house, its beams, its thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold, and he engraved cherubim on the walls.8He made the house of the most holy place; its length before the width of the house was twenty cubits and its width twenty cubits; he covered it with pleasant gold, six hundred talents.9The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold, and he covered the upper rooms with gold.10In the house of the most holy place he made two cherubim of image work and overlaid them with gold.11The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits in length; the wing of the one was five cubits, touching the wall of the house, and the other wing was five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherub.12The wing of the one cherub was five cubits, touching the wall of the house, and the other wing was five cubits, cleaving to the wing of the other cherub.13The wings of these cherubim spread out twenty cubits; they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.14He made the curtain of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and he raised cherubim upon it.15He made two pillars in front of the house, thirty-five cubits in length, and the capital that was on top of each was five cubits.16He made chains in the sanctuary and set them on the heads of the pillars; he also made one hundred pomegranates and set them in the chains.17He set the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right and one on the left, and he named the right pillar Jachin and the left pillar Boaz.