1. Solomon began to build the Temple of the Lord. He built it in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. This was where the Lord had appeared to David, Solomon’s father. Solomon built the Temple on the place David had prepared. This place was the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
2. Solomon began building in the second month of the fourth year he ruled Israel.
3. Solomon used these measurements for building the Temple of God. It was 90 feet long and 30 feet wide. (Solomon used the old measurement.)
4. The porch in front of the Temple was 30 feet long and 30 feet high.Solomon covered the inside of the porch with pure gold.
5. He put panels of pine on the walls of the main room. Then he covered them with pure gold. And he put designs of palm trees and chains in the gold.
6. He put gems in the Temple for beauty. And he used gold from Parvaim.
7. Solomon put gold on the Temple’s ceiling beams, doorposts, walls and doors. And he carved creatures with wings on the walls.