| New King James Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1Now Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. | 1Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. |
| 2And he began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. | 2Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. |
| 3This is the foundation which Solomon laid for building the house of God: The length was sixty cubits (by cubits according to the former measure) and the width twenty cubits. | 3The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard. |
| 4And the vestibule that was in front of the sanctuary was twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and the height was one hundred and twenty. He overlaid the inside with pure gold. | 4The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold. |
| 5The larger room he paneled with cypress which he overlaid with fine gold, and he carved palm trees and chainwork on it. | 5He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains. |
| 6And he decorated the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was gold from Parvaim. | 6He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim. |
| 7He also overlaid the house—the beams and doorposts, its walls and doors—with gold; and he carved cherubim on the walls. | 7He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls. |
| 8And he made the Most Holy Place. Its length was according to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits. He overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold. | 8Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold. |
| 9The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold; and he overlaid the upper area with gold. | 9The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper area with gold. |
| 10In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim, fashioned by carving, and overlaid them with gold. | 10In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of sculptured work, and he overlaid them with gold. |
| 11The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits in overall length: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, touching the wall of the room, and the other wing was five cubits, touching 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 wall of the temple, and its other wing was five cubits long and touched the wing of the other cherub. |
| 12one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, touching the wall of the room, and the other wing also was five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherub. | 12The wing of the second cherub also measured five cubits and touched the wall of the temple, while its other wing measured five cubits and touched the wing of the first cherub. |
| 13The wings of these cherubim spanned twenty cubits overall. They stood on their feet, and they faced inward. | 13So the total wingspan of these cherubim was twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main room. |
| 14And he made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and wove cherubim into it. | 14He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it. |
| 15Also he made in front of the temple two pillars thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. | 15In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits. |
| 16He made wreaths of chainwork, as in the inner sanctuary, and put them on top of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the wreaths of chainwork. | 16He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork. |
| 17Then he set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand and the other on the left; he called the name of the one on the right hand Jachin, and the name of the one on the left Boaz. | 17Then he set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south and one on the north. The pillar on the south he named Jachin, and the pillar on the north he named Boaz. |
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