^{1 Ref} And Solomon beginneth to build the house of Jehovah, in Jerusalem, in the mount of Moriah, where He appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite,

^{2 Ref} and he beginneth to build in the second `day', in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

^{3 Ref} And `in' these hath Solomon been instructed to build the house of God: The length `in' cubits by the former measure `is' sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

^{4 Ref} As to the porch that `is' on the front, the length `is' by the front of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty, and he overlayeth it within with pure gold.

^{5 Ref} And the large house he hath covered with fir-trees, and he doth cover it with good gold, and causeth to ascend on it palms and chains,