1. Then Solomon began to build the House of Adonai in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah—where Adonai appeared to his father David—at the place that David prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2. He began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
3. Now the foundation Solomon laid for the building of the House of God was 60 cubits long and 20 cubits wide, according to the old standard.
4. The porch in front of the House along its width was 20 cubits and its height was 120 cubits, and the inside was overlaid with pure gold.
5. He paneled the main hall with cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold and embossed on it palm trees and chains.
6. He adorned the House with precious stones and the gold he used was gold from Parvaim.
7. Furthermore He overlaid the beams, thresholds, walls and doors of the House with gold and carved cheruvim on the walls.