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神殿の建設
1ついに神殿の建設が始まりました。敷地はエルサレムのモリヤ山上で、ここは、かつて主がソロモンの父ダビデに姿を現したエブス人オルナンの打ち場があった所です。ダビデはかねて、そこを神殿の建設予定地にしていました。 2工事が始まったのは、ソロモン王の治世第四年、第二の月の二日でした。
3まず神殿の土台は、長さ六十キュビト（約二・六メートル）、幅二十キュビト（八・八メートル）。 4屋根つきの玄関は、神殿の幅と同じ二十キュビトの長さで、内側の壁と天井には純金を張りつめました。屋根の高さは百二十キュビト（約五・三メートル）。 5神殿の主要部は糸杉で覆い、純金を張りつめ、なつめやしの木と鎖を彫刻しました。 6壁の内側はより美しさを増すために、宝石で飾りました。ここで用いた金はパルワイム産の最上のものです。 7神殿内は、壁も、梁も、扉も、敷居も金を張りつめ、壁にはケルビム（天使を象徴する像）を刻みました。
8神殿の奥に、二十キュビト四方の至聖所（神の箱を安置する部屋）がありました。ここにも、六百タラント（二十・四トン）の金を張りつめました。 9五十シェケル（五百七十五グラム）の金の釘を使い、階上の部屋も金を張りました。
10一番奥の至聖所に、王はケルビムを二つすえ、それにも金をかぶせました。 11-13この像は床の上に立ち、顔を部屋の外に向け、一方の壁からもう一方の壁まで翼をいっぱいに広げていました。 14王はまた、至聖所の入口に、ケルビムの縫い取り模様のある青と紅の亜麻布製の幕をかけました。
15神殿の前には、二本の柱を立てました。それぞれ高さは三十五キュビト（十五・四メートル）で、さらにその上に、高さ五キュビト（二・二メートル）の柱頭がありました。 16その頂に百個のざくろがついた鎖を取りつけました。 17それから、この柱を神殿正面の右と左に立て、右側の柱をヤキン、左側の柱をボアズと名づけました。
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 Araunah3:1 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 wide3:3 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 cubits3:4 That is, about 30 feet or about 9 meters; also in verses 8, 11 and 13 long across the width of the building and twenty3:4 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 talents3:8 That is, about 23 tons or about 21 metric tons of fine gold. 9The gold nails weighed fifty shekels.3:9 That is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.
10For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold. 11The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits3:11 That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters; also in verse 15 long and touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub. 12Similarly 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. 13The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main hall.3:13 Or facing inward
14He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim worked into it.
15For the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits3:15 That is, about 53 feet or about 16 meters long, each with a capital five cubits high. 16He made interwoven chains3:16 Or possibly made chains in the inner sanctuary; the meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain. and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates and attached them to the chains. 17He 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 Jakin3:17 Jakin probably means he establishes. and the one to the north Boaz.3:17 Boaz probably means in him is strength.
