2 Chronicles 3:1-9

Solomon Builds the Temple 1Then 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 Hebrew Ornan, a variant of Araunah the Jebusite, the place provided by David.

2He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. 3The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide That is, about 90 feet long and 30 feet wide or about 27 meters long and 9 meters wide (using the cubit of the old standard).

4The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits That is, about 30 feet or about 9 meters; also in verses 8, 11 and 13 long across the width of the building and twenty Some Septuagint and Syriac manuscripts; Hebrew and a hundred and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold. 5He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree and chain designs. 6He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim.

7He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls. 8He 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 That is, about 23 tons or about 21 metric tons of fine gold.

9The gold nails weighed fifty shekels. That is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.