2 Chronicles 3 (résumé): Solomon builds the Temple

Then Solomon began to build the temple on Mount Moriah on the land that his father David had bought on the the threshing floor of Araunah. He began on the 2nd day of the 2nd month of the 4th year of his reign. He built the temple twice as big as the tabernacle with the foundation measuring 27 metres long and 9 metres wide. He overlaid the inside with gold including the ceiling beams, door frames, walls and doors. He built the Most Holy Place and overlaid the inside with gold. For the Most Holy Place Solomon made a pair of sculptured cherubim and the total wingspan of the cherubim was over 9 metres. He then made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen with cherubim worked into it. For the front of the temple he made 2 pillars and he made interwoven chains which he put on top of the pillars and he made 100 pomegranates which were attached to the chains. The northern pillar he named Boaz and the southern pillar he named Jakin.