1Solomon began to build Jehovah’s Temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. That is where Jehovah appeared to his father David. David had prepared the site on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2He began to build on the second day in the second month of the fourth year of his reign. It was in the place David had povided. 3This is how Solomon laid the foundation to build God’s Temple. It was ninety feet long and thirty feet wide. They used the old standard measurement. 4The entrance hall in front of the main room was thirty feet wide the same as the width of the temple and thirty feet high. He covered its inside walls with pure gold. 5He paneled the larger building with cypress. Then he overlaid it with fine gold. It was decorated with designs in the form of palm trees and chains. 6He covered the building with gems to beautify it and used gold from Parvaim. 7He also overlaid the building, the rafters, the threshold, the walls, and the doors with gold. He carved cherubim angels on the walls. 8He made the most holy place. It was as long as the Temple was wide, thirty feet long. It was also thirty feet wide. He overlaid it with forty-five thousand pounds of fine gold. 9The gold nails weighed twenty ounces. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold. 10In the most holy place he made two sculptured cherubim angels and covered them with gold. 11The combined length of the cherubim wings was thirty feet. A wing of one of the cherub was seven and one half feet long and touched the wall of the building. Its other wing was seven and one half feet long and touched one wing of the other cherub. 12The wing of the other one of the cherub angels was seven and one half feet long and touched the other wall of the building. Its other wing was seven and one half feet long and touched the wing of the first cherub. So the cherubs’ combined wingspan was thirty feet. 13They stood on their feet facing the main hall. 14Solomon made the canopy of violet, purple, and dark red cloth and of linen and decorated it with cherubim. 15He made two pillars for the front of the Temple. They were fifty-three feet long, and the crown on each pillar was seven and one half feet high. 16He made chains for the inner room and also put them on the crowns. He made one hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains. 17He set up the pillars in front of the Temple, one on the right and the other on the left. He named the one on the right Jachin He Establishes and the one on the left Boaz In Him Is Strength.