2 Chronicles 3

2 Chronicles 3:1 Solomon began to build  Yahveh’s house in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahveh had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2 Chronicles 3:2 He began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

2 Chronicles 3:3 These are Solomon’s foundations for building God’s house: According to the old standard, the length in cubits was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.

2 Chronicles 3:4 The portico, which was across the face extending across the width of the house, was twenty cubits wide; its height was twenty cubits; he overlaid its inner surface with pure[1] gold.

2 Chronicles 3:5 The larger room he paneled with cypress wood, overlaid with fine gold, and decorated with palm trees and chains.

2 Chronicles 3:6 He adorned the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was the gold of Parvaim.

2 Chronicles 3:7 He overlaid the house – the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and doors- with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

2 Chronicles 3:8 Then he made the most sacred[2] place; its length corresponded to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits. He overlaid it with 600 talents of fine gold.

2 Chronicles 3:9 The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold, and he overlaid the ceiling with gold.

2 Chronicles 3:10 He made two cherubim of sculptured work inside the most sacred place and overlaid them with gold.

2 Chronicles 3:11 The overall length of the wings of the cherubim was twenty cubits: the wing of one was five cubits, touching the wall of the room; its other wing was five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherub.

2 Chronicles 3:12 The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, touching the wall of the room; its other wing was five cubits, reaching the wing of the other cherub.

2 Chronicles 3:13 The wingspan of these cherubim was twenty cubits. They stood on their feet and faced the larger room.

2 Chronicles 3:14 He made the curtain of blue, purple, and crimson yarn, and fine linen, and he wove cherubim into it.

2 Chronicles 3:15 In the face of the temple, he made two pillars, each thirty-five cubits high. The capital on top of each was five cubits high.

2 Chronicles 3:16 He 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.

2 Chronicles 3:17 Then he set up the pillars in face of the sanctuary, one on the right and one on the left. He named[3] the one on the right Jachin and the one on the left Boaz.

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[1] טָהוֹר = pure. 2 Chronicles 3:4; 9:17; 13:11; 30:17.

[2] קֹדֶשׁ = sacred. 2 Chronicles 3:8, 10; 4:22; 5:1, 5, 7, 11; 8:11; 15:18; 20:21; 23:6; 24:7; 29:5, 7, 33; 30:19, 27; 31:6, 12, 14, 18; 35:3, 5, 13.

[3] קָרָא = invite, cry out, convene, name.  2 Chronicles 3:17; 6:33; 7:14; 10:3; 14:11; 18:8, 12; 20:3, 26; 24:6; 32:18; 34:18, 24, 30.

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an audience of one
the most holy place

The 2 Chronicles shelf in Jeff’s library