| Christian Standard Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1Then Solomon began to build the LORD's temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. | 1So Solomon began to build the Temple of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to David, his father. The Temple was built on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the site that David had selected. |
| 2He began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. | 2The construction began in midspring, during the fourth year of Solomon’s reign. |
| 3These are Solomon's foundations for building God's temple: the length was ninety feet, and the width thirty feet. | 3These are the dimensions Solomon used for the foundation of the Temple of God (using the old standard of measurement). It was 90 feet long and 30 feet wide. |
| 4The portico, which was across the front extending across the width of the temple, was thirty feet wide; its height was thirty feet; he overlaid its inner surface with pure gold. | 4The entry room at the front of the Temple was 30 feet wide, running across the entire width of the Temple, and 30 feet high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold. |
| 5The larger room he paneled with cypress wood, overlaid with fine gold, and decorated with palm trees and chains. | 5He paneled the main room of the Temple with cypress wood, overlaid it with fine gold, and decorated it with carvings of palm trees and chains. |
| 6He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was the gold of Parvaim. | 6He decorated the walls of the Temple with beautiful jewels and with gold from the land of Parvaim. |
| 7He overlaid the temple--the beams, the thresholds, its walls and doors--with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls. | 7He overlaid the beams, thresholds, walls, and doors throughout the Temple with gold, and he carved figures of cherubim on the walls. |
| 8Then 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 of fine gold. | 8He made the Most Holy Place 30 feet wide, corresponding to the width of the Temple, and 30 feet deep. He overlaid its interior with 23 tons of fine gold. |
| 9The weight of the nails was twenty ounces of gold, and he overlaid the ceiling with gold. | 9The gold nails that were used weighed 20 ounces each. He also overlaid the walls of the upper rooms with gold. |
| 10He made two cherubim of sculptured work, for the most holy place, and he overlaid them with gold. | 10He made two figures shaped like cherubim, overlaid them with gold, and placed them in the Most Holy Place. |
| 11The overall length of the wings of the cherubim was 30 feet: the wing of one was 7 1/2 feet, touching the wall of the room; its other wing was 7 1/2 feet, touching the wing of the other cherub. | 11The total wingspan of the two cherubim standing side by side was 30 feet. One wing of the first figure was 7 1/2 feet long, and it touched the Temple wall. The other wing, also 7 1/2 feet long, touched one of the wings of the second figure. |
| 12The wing of the other 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. | 12In the same way, the second figure had one wing 7 1/2 feet long that touched the opposite wall. The other wing, also 7 1/2 feet long, touched the wing of the first figure. |
| 13The wingspan of these cherubim was 30 feet. They stood on their feet and faced the larger room. | 13So the wingspan of the two cherubim side by side was 30 feet. They stood on their feet and faced out toward the main room of the Temple. |
| 14He made the curtain of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, and he wove cherubim into it. | 14Across the entrance of the Most Holy Place he hung a curtain made of fine linen, decorated with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and embroidered with figures of cherubim. |
| 15In front of the temple he made two pillars, each 27 feet high. The capital on top of each was 7 1/2 feet high. | 15For the front of the Temple, he made two pillars that were 27 feet tall, each topped by a capital extending upward another 7 1/2 feet. |
| 16He 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. | 16He made a network of interwoven chains and used them to decorate the tops of the pillars. He also made 100 decorative pomegranates and attached them to the chains. |
| 17Then 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 and the one on the left Boaz. | 17Then he set up the two pillars at the entrance of the Temple, one to the south of the entrance and the other to the north. He named the one on the south Jakin, and the one on the north Boaz. |
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