3:1 所羅門就在耶路撒冷、耶和華向他父大衛顯現的摩利亞山上，就是耶布斯人阿珥楠的禾場上、大衛所指定的地方預備好了，開工建造耶和華的殿。
3:2 所羅門作王第四年二月初二日開工建造。
3:3 所羅門建築上帝殿的根基，乃是這樣：長六十肘，寬二十肘，都按著古時的尺寸。
3:4 殿前的廊子長二十肘，與殿的寬窄一樣，高一百二十肘；裡面貼上精金。
3:5 大殿的牆都用松木板遮蔽，又貼了精金，上面雕刻棕樹和鍊子；
3:6 又用寶石裝飾殿牆，使殿華美；所用的金子都是巴瓦音的金子。
3:7 又用金子貼殿和殿的棟樑、門檻、牆壁、門扇；牆上雕刻基路伯。
3:8 又建造至聖所，長二十肘，與殿的寬窄一樣，寬也是二十肘；貼上精金，共用金子六百他連得。
3:9 金釘重五十舍客勒。樓房都貼上金子。
3:10 在至聖所按造像的法子造兩個基路伯，用金子包裹。
3:11 兩個基路伯的翅膀共長二十肘。這基路伯的一個翅膀長五肘，挨著殿這邊的牆；那一個翅膀也長五肘，與那基路伯翅膀相接。
3:12 那基路伯的一個翅膀長五肘，挨著殿那邊的牆；那一個翅膀也長五肘，與這基路伯的翅膀相接。
3:13 兩個基路伯張開翅膀，共長二十肘，面向外殿而立。
3:14 又用藍色、紫色、朱紅色線和細麻織幔子，在其上繡出基路伯來。
3:15 在殿前造了兩根柱子，高三十五肘；每柱頂高五肘。
3:16 又照聖所內鍊子的樣式做鍊子，安在柱頂上；又做一百石榴，安在鍊子上。
3:17 將兩根柱子立在殿前，一根在右邊，一根在左邊；右邊的起名叫雅斤，左邊的起名叫波阿斯。
Then
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[a] the
Jebusite, the place provided by David. 2 He began building on
the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
3 The
foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long
and twenty cubits wide[b] (using the
cubit of the old standard). 4 The portico at the front of the
temple was twenty cubits[c] long across
the width of the building and twenty[d] cubits
high.
He
overlaid the inside with pure gold. 5 He paneled the main hall
with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree and
chain designs. 6 He adorned the temple with precious stones.
And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim. 7 He overlaid the
ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he
carved cherubim on the walls.
8 He
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[e] of fine
gold. 9 The gold nails weighed fifty shekels.[f] He also
overlaid the upper parts with gold.
10 For
the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them
with gold. 11 The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty
cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits[g] long and
touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched
the wing of the other cherub. 12 Similarly 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. 13 The
wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. They stood on their feet,
facing the main hall.[h]
14 He
made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim
worked into it.
15 For
the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five
cubits[i] long, each
with a capital five cubits high. 16 He made interwoven chains[j] and put
them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates and attached
them to the chains. 17 He 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 Jakin[k] and the one
to the north Boaz.
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所羅門勇敢擔起建造聖殿的使命，雖然是艱辛，是操練倚靠上帝的最佳時機！
