1. Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, which had been shown to David his father, in the place David had prepared, the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2. He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.
3. These were the specifications laid down by Solomon for building the house of God: the length was sixty cubits according to the old measure, and the width was twenty cubits;
4. the front porch along the width of the house was also twenty cubits, and it was twenty cubits high. He covered its interior with pure gold.
5. The nave he overlaid with cypress wood and overlaid that with fine gold, embossing on it palms and chains.
6. He also covered the house with precious stones for splendor; the gold was from Parvaim.
7. The house, its beams and thresholds, as well as its walls and its doors, he overlaid with gold, and he engraved cherubim upon the walls.