circa 970–930 BC
Solomon & The Temple
Solomon builds the great Temple in Jerusalem and rules with unprecedented wisdom and wealth before foreign gods divide his heart.
- 2 Chronicles 3:7c. 1011 BC
He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.
- 2 Chronicles 3:8c. 1011 BC
And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
- 2 Chronicles 3:9c. 1011 BC
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
- 2 Chronicles 3:10c. 1011 BC
¶ And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.
- 2 Chronicles 3:11c. 1011 BC
And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
- 2 Chronicles 3:12c. 1011 BC
And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
- 2 Chronicles 3:13c. 1011 BC
The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.
- 2 Chronicles 3:14c. 1011 BC
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
- 2 Chronicles 3:15c. 1011 BC
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
- 2 Chronicles 3:16c. 1011 BC
And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
- 2 Chronicles 3:17c. 1011 BC
And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
- 2 Chronicles 4:1c. 1011 BC
¶ Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
- 2 Chronicles 4:2c. 1011 BC
Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
- 2 Chronicles 4:3c. 1011 BC
And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.
- 2 Chronicles 4:4c. 1011 BC
It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
- 2 Chronicles 4:5c. 1011 BC
And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
- 2 Chronicles 4:6c. 1011 BC
He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
- 2 Chronicles 4:7c. 1011 BC
And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
- 2 Chronicles 4:8c. 1011 BC
He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.
- 2 Chronicles 4:9c. 1011 BC
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
- 2 Chronicles 4:10c. 1011 BC
And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.
- 2 Chronicles 4:11c. 1011 BC
¶ And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;
- 2 Chronicles 4:12c. 1011 BC
To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;
- 2 Chronicles 4:13c. 1011 BC
And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.
- 2 Chronicles 4:14c. 1011 BC
He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;