2 Chronicles 3 ISV NIV Parallel

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1So Solomon began construction of the LORD's Temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where the LORD had appeared to his father David, that is, where David had prepared Ornan the Jebusite's threshing floor.

1Then Solomon began to build the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the place provided by David.

2He began construction on the second day of the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

2He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

3These are the foundations that Solomon set in place for God's Temple. The length in terms of the former standard measurements: 60 cubits; its width: 20 cubits.

3The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide (using the cubit of the old standard).

4A portico extended in front of the Temple for its entire width of 20 cubits, and was 120 cubits high. Inside he had it overlaid with pure gold.

4The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits long across the width of the building and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

5The main room of the Temple was trimmed with a wainscoting composed of cypress wood, overlaid with fine gold ornamented with palm trees and chains.

5He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree and chain designs.

6The Temple was adorned with precious stones, including gold from the Orient.

6He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim.

7The Temple was overlaid with gold, including the beams, thresholds, walls, and doors. Cherubim were engraved on the walls.

7He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

8With respect to the Most Holy Place in the Temple, its length across the width of the Temple was 20 cubits, and its width extended 20 cubits. Solomon overlaid it with 600 talents of pure gold.

8He built the Most Holy Place, its length corresponding to the width of the temple--twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.

9The gold nails weighed 50 shekels. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

9The gold nails weighed fifty shekels. He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.

10He crafted two cherubim from wood, overlaid them with gold, and placed them in the Most Holy Place in the Temple.

10For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold.

11The wingspan of the cherubim was 20 cubits; the wing of one, five cubits long, touched the wall of the Temple, and its other wing, five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub.

11The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub.

12The wing of the other cherub, five cubits long, touched the opposite wall of the Temple and its other wing, five cubits long, touched the wing of the first cherub.

12Similarly one wing of the second cherub was five cubits long and touched the other temple wall, and its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the first cherub.

13The wings of these cherubim extended for 20 cubits as they stood on their feet and faced the front of the Temple.

13The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main hall.

14He constructed the veil from blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, embroidering cherubim on it.

14He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim worked into it.

15He also made two pillars 35 cubits high for the front of the Temple, topped by a capital that was five cubits high.

15For the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits long, each with a capital five cubits high.

16He crafted chains for the inner sanctuary and placed them on top of the pillars, attaching 100 pomegranates to each of the chains.

16He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates and attached them to the chains.

17He set up the pillars at the front of the Temple, one on the south side of the entrance and the other on the north side of the entrance. He named the south pillar Jachin and the north pillar Boaz.

17He erected the pillars in the front of the temple, one to the south and one to the north. The one to the south he named Jakin and the one to the north Boaz.

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