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2 Chronicles 3: The Temple Structure – Clear & Engaging Audio Bible Reading | King Solomon’s Grandest Project
Get lost in the grandeur of King Solomon’s Temple with this clear and engaging audio recording of 2 Chronicles 3. Discover the intricate and detailed design elements of the temple structure, marvel at the precious materials used, and learn about the skilled craftsmen who built it. This chapter is perfect for study, reflection, or meditation, and will leave you in awe of Solomon’s grandest project.
2 CHRONICLES 3 (NIV)
1 Then Solomon began to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount
Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. It was on the
threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the place provided by David.
2 He
began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his
reign.
3 The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits
long and twenty cubits wide (using the cubit of the old standard).
4 The
portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits long across the width of
the building and twenty cubits high.
He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
5 He paneled the main hall with juniper
and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree and chain
designs.
6 He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used
was gold of Parvaim.
7 He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and
doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.
8 He built the Most Holy Place, its length corresponding to the width of the
temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with
six hundred talents of fine gold.
9 The gold nails weighed fifty shekels. He
also overlaid the upper parts with gold.
10 For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid
them with gold.
11 The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One
wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the temple wall,
while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other
cherub.
12 Similarly one wing of the second cherub was five cubits long and
touched the other temple wall, and its other wing, also five cubits long,
touched the wing of the first cherub.
13 The wings of these cherubim extended
twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main hall.
14 He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with
cherubim worked into it.
15 For the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were
thirty-five cubits long, each with a capital five cubits high.
16 He made
interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred
pomegranates and attached them to the chains.
17 He erected the pillars in the
front of the temple, one to the south and one to the north. The one to the
south he named Jakin and the one to the north Boaz.