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New Testament
2 Chronicles 3:1-9
The Construction of the Temple
31Then Solomon began to build the House of the Lord at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. He constructed it on the site that David had specified,[] namely, the threshing floor of Ornan[] the Jebusite. 2He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
The Sanctuary
3Now these are the dimensions of the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of God's house. The length was ninety feet and the width thirty feet.[] 4The porch[] that was in front of the temple building was thirty feet wide, the same as the width of the building, and it was thirty feet high.[]
He overlaid the inside with pure gold. 5He lined the larger front room of the building with fir wood paneling,[] which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains. 6He beautified the house with dazzling precious stones. The gold was gold of Parvaim.[] 7He also overlaid the house, the beams and rafters, the thresholds and door frames, its walls, and its doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.
Footnotes
- 3:1 Or prepared
- 3:1 In 2 Samuel 24 he is called Araunah or Aravnah.
- 3:3 The measurements are given in cubits of the old measure, a much disputed term. The EHV translation uses 18-inch cubits. Using a long cubit of 20+ inches, the dimensions of the temple would be 105 feet by 35 feet.
- 3:4 Or entry hall. It is uncertain if this was an unroofed porch or an enclosed vestibule.
- 3:4 The Hebrew text reads the height as one hundred twenty cubits (one hundred eighty feet), but the Greek and Syriac texts and the data concerning the height of the pillars for the porch all support a height of twenty cubits (thirty feet). Perhaps the Hebrew word amwt (cubit) was accidentally changed into the word mawt (hundred) by the inversion of two letters. The account in Kings does not give the height of the porch.
- 3:5 According to 1 Kings 6:15, the floor was fir and the walls were cedar. This verse in Chronicles does not mention this distinction.
- 3:6 The meaning or location of the Hebrew term Parvaim is unknown.
- 3:8 Because of widely varying estimates for the weight of a talent (68 pounds to 130 pounds) most translations retain the term talent. The smallest estimated weight of the gold would be about 20 tons. The notes of this translation use the estimate of 75 pounds for a talent.
- 3:9 Literally fifty shekels