1. Solomon began to build the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, on the place David had prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2. He began building in the second month of the fourth year of his rule.
3. Solomon laid the foundations for these structures in order to build the temple of God. The length according to the old standard of measurement was ninety feet and the width thirty feet.
4. Across the front of the temple was a porch as long as the temple was and thirty feet wide, and thirty feet high. He covered the inside walls with pure gold.
5. He paneled the walls of the main room with pine, covered them with fine gold, and decorated them with palm trees and chains.
6. He studded the room with precious stones for beauty; the gold was from Parvaim.
7. He covered the room, its beams, doorframes, walls, and doors with gold, and carved images of winged creatures on the walls.