| 3:1 | Solomon began building the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem* on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan* the Jebusite. |
| 3:2 | He began building on the second day of the second month of the fourth year of his reign.* |
| 3:3 | Solomon laid the foundation for God’s temple;* its length (determined according to the old standard of measure) was 90 feet, and its width 30 feet.* |
| 3:4 | The porch in front of the main hall was 30 feet long, corresponding to the width of the temple,* and its height was 30 feet.* He plated the inside with pure gold. |
| 3:5 | He paneled* the main hall* with boards made from evergreen trees* and plated it with fine gold, decorated with palm trees and chains.* |
| 3:6 | He decorated the temple with precious stones; the gold he used came from Parvaim.* |
| 3:7 | He overlaid the temple’s rafters, thresholds, walls and doors with gold; he carved decorative cherubim on the walls. |
| 3:8 | He made the most holy place;* its length was 30 feet,* corresponding to the width of the temple, and its width 30 feet.* He plated it with 600 talents* of fine gold. |
| 3:9 | The gold nails weighed 50 shekels; he also plated the upper areas with gold. |
| 3:10 | In the most holy place he made two images of cherubim and plated them with gold. |
| 3:11 | The combined wing span of the cherubs was 30 feet.* One of the first cherub’s wings was seven and one-half feet long and touched one wall of the temple; its other wing was also seven and one-half feet long and touched one of the second cherub’s wings.* |
| 3:12 | Likewise one of the second cherub’s wings was seven and one-half feet long and touched the other wall of the temple; its other wing was also seven and one-half feet long and touched one of the first cherub’s wings.* |
| 3:13 | The combined wingspan of these cherubim was 30 feet.* They stood upright, facing inward.* |
| 3:14 | He made the curtain out of violet, purple, crimson, and white fabrics, and embroidered on it decorative cherubim. |
| 3:15 | In front of the temple he made two pillars which had a combined length* of 52½ feet,* with each having a plated capital seven and one-half feet high.* |
| 3:16 | He made ornamental chains* and put them on top of the pillars. He also made one hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments and arranged them within the chains. |
| 3:17 | He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right side and the other on the left.* He named the one on the right Jachin,* and the one on the left Boaz.* |
2 Chronicles 3 - NET Bible [draft]
