Salomão constrói o templo
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1Finalmente, começou a construção do templo em Jerusalém, no cimo do monte Moriá, onde o Senhor aparecera a David, seu pai, onde se localizava a eira de Ornã, o jebuseu. Foi David quem escolheu esse sítio. 2O início da construção teve lugar no dia 2 do segundo mês3.2 Mês de Zive. No nosso calendário, entre a lua nova do mês de abril e o mês de maio., no quarto ano do reinado de Salomão.
3-4Os alicerces tinham 30 metros de comprimento e 10 de largura. Havia um alpendre ao longo dos 10 metros da largura do edifício, na parte da frente. A sua parte interior e o teto eram cobertos de ouro puro. O telhado estava à altura de 60 metros.
5A parte principal do templo era forrada com madeira de cipreste, coberta de ouro puro, com gravações de folhas de palmeiras e cadeias. 6Havia pedras preciosas incrustadas nas paredes, para aumentar a sua beleza; o ouro era do melhor, de Parvaim. 7Todas as paredes, traves, portas e ombreiras das entradas do templo estavam cobertas de ouro com querubins gravados.
O lugar santíssimo
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8Dentro, numa extremidade, ficava o local mais sagrado, o lugar santíssimo, com 10 metros quadrados. Esta área também era toda coberta de ouro do mais puro, pesando 21 toneladas. 9Os pregos ali usados eram igualmente de ouro e pesavam 575 gramas cada. As salas superiores estavam também forradas a ouro.
10Dentro da referida dependência, o lugar santíssimo, Salomão colocou duas esculturas de querubins revestidas de ouro. 11-13Os querubins estavam de pé ao lado um do outro, voltados para a entrada. Tinha cada um duas asas com 2,5 metros de comprimento. Uma tocava a parede da sala e a outra tocava a asa do outro querubim. As asas assim estendidas mediam 10 metros.
14À entrada desta sala colocou um véu em azul, vermelho, púrpura e linho fino, decorado também com querubins.
Os dois pilares na frente do templo
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15Na frente do templo havia dois pilares de 17,5 metros de altura, com capitéis de 2,5 metros que os ligavam ao teto. 16Mandou fazer cadeias, como as do santuário, e colocou-as no cimo dos pilares; havia 100 romãs ligadas às cadeias. 17Os pilares, colocou-os um à direita e o outro à esquerda, na parte da frente do templo, e deu-lhes nomes: ao da direita deu o nome de Jaquim, ao da esquerda, Boaz.3.17 Em hebraico, Jaquim significa ele estabelecerá e Boaz significa nele está a força.
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.
