2 Chronicles 332 ChroniclesSolomon and the templeUnlocked Dynamic Bible

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1. Temple Construction Begins

   (1 Kings 6:1–4)

2. 1UDBThen Solomon's workers started to build the temple for Yahweh in Jerusalem. They built it on Mount Moriah, where an angel from Yahweh had appeared to his father David. They built it on the ground that Ornan, a descendant of the Jebus people, had sold to David and where David said that it should be built.BSBBSB: Then 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.
3. 2UDBThey began the work on the second day of the second month, when Solomon had been ruling almost four years.BSBBSB: Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
4. 3UDBThe foundation of the temple was twenty-seven meters long and nine meters wide.BSBBSB: The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.
5. 4UDBThe entrance room across the front of the temple was also nine meters long, the same as the temple's width. The entrance room was also nine meters high. Solomon caused workmen to coat the interior of the entrance room with thin sheets of pure gold.BSBBSB: The 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.

6. The Temple’s Interior

   (1 Kings 6:14–22)

7. 5UDBSolomon's workers used panels of pine wood to line the main hall of the temple. Then they covered those panels with very thin sheets of pure gold. On them they carved images of palm trees and designs that resembled chains.BSBBSB: He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.
8. 6UDBThey decorated the temple with very valuable stones. The gold that they used was from the land of Parvaim.BSBBSB: He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim.
9. 7UDBThey covered the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with very thin sheets of gold. They also carved statues of winged creatures on the walls.BSBBSB: He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.
10. 8UDBThey also built the very holy place inside the temple. It was nine meters long, the same as the temple's width. The width of the very holy place was the same. They covered its walls with sheets of pure gold that altogether weighed about twenty thousand kilograms.BSBBSB: Then 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.
11. 9UDBEach gold nails weighed about one-half a kilogram. They also covered the walls of the upper rooms with thin sheets of gold.BSBBSB: The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

12. The Cherubim

    (1 Kings 6:23–30)

13. 10UDBSolomon's workers made two statues of creatures with wings to put inside the very holy place. They covered those statues with very thin sheets of gold.BSBBSB: In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of sculptured work, and he overlaid them with gold.
14. 11UDBEach statue had two long wings. One wing of each statue touched the wall of the temple. The other wing of each statue touched a wing of the other statue. The wingspan of each cherub was about four and three-fifths meters across. One wing of each cherub touched the wall, while the other reached to the middle of room and touched the inner wing of the other cherub. Each wing was two and one-third meters long.BSBBSB: The 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.
15. 13UDBIt was nine meters from the outer wing of the one statue to the outer wing of the other statue. The statues faced the doorway leading to the main room.BSBBSB: So the total wingspan of these cherubim was twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main room.

16. The Veil and Pillars

    (1 Kings 7:13–22)

17. 14UDBSolomon's workers made a curtain to separate the main room from the very holy place. It was made of blue, purple, and red thread and fine linen. Figures of winged creatures were embroidered on the curtain.BSBBSB: He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.
18. 15UDBThey made two bronze pillars and put them at the entrance of the temple. They were each sixteen meters high. A separate piece was attached to the top of each pillar; each of the top pieces was two and one-third meters high.BSBBSB: In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits.
19. 16UDBThe workers made carvings that resembled chains and put them on top of the pillars. They made carvings that resembled pomegranates and attached them to the chains. There were one hundred of them.BSBBSB: He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork.
20. 17UDBThey set up the pillars in front of the temple, one the south side of the entrance and the other on the north side. The one of the south side was named Jakin and the one on the north side was named Boaz.BSBBSB: Then 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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