1So Solomon started building the Lord's crib in Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where the Lord showed up to David, his dad, in the spot David prepped on Ornan's threshing floor.

2He kicked things off on day two of the second month in year four of his reign.

3Here’s the 411 on how Solomon was schooled for building God's house. The length was sixty cubits, and the width was twenty cubits.

4The porch in front was the same width as the house, twenty cubits long, and it stood a hundred and twenty tall; he decked it out with pure gold inside.

5The bigger house was lined with fir trees, all blinged out in fine gold, with palm trees and chains chillin' there.

6He decked the house with dope stones for looks, and the gold was straight up from Parvaim.

7He also covered the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls with gold; and there were cherubim carved on the walls.

8He made the most holy space, which was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, and he covered it in fine gold, totaling six hundred talents.

9The nails weighed fifty shekels of gold, and he covered the upper rooms in gold too.

10In the most holy place, he crafted two cherubim out of fancy work and covered them in gold.

11The cherubim's wings were twenty cubits long; one wing was five cubits, reaching the wall, and the other wing was also five cubits, reaching the other cherub's wing.

12One wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching the wall, and the other wing was five cubits too, connecting to the other cherub's wing.

13The wings of these cherubim spread out twenty cubits, standing on their feet, facing inward.

14He made the veil out of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, with cherubim woven in.

15He also made two pillars in front of the house, thirty-five cubits high, with five-cubit chapiters on top of each.

16He made chains like in the oracle and hung them on the pillars; then he crafted a hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains.

17He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right and one on the left; he named the right one Jachin and the left one Boaz.

1Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

3Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

4And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

5And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

6And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

7He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.

8And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

9And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

10And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

11And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

12And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.

13The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.

14And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.

15Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

16And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

17And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.