2 Crónicas 3

1Empezó Salomón a edificar la Casa de Yahvé en Jerusalén, en el monte Moriah indicado anteriormente a su padre David, en el sitio donde David había hecho los preparativos, en la era de Ornan jebuseo.

2Dio comienzo a las obras el día dos del mes segundo del año cuarto de su reinado.

3He aquí (las dimensiones) de los fundamentos que puso Salomón, para edificar la Casa de Dios: la longitud en codos de la medida antigua: sesenta codos, y la anchura: veinte codos.

4El pórtico que servía de fachada y cuya longitud correspondía al ancho de la Casa, tenía una longitud de veinte codos y una altura de ciento veinte. Lo recubrió por dentro de oro puro.

5Revistió la Casa mayor de madera de ciprés y la recubrió de oro fino, haciendo esculpir en ella palmas y cadenillas.

6Revistió también la Casa de piedras preciosas para adornarla; el oro era oro de Parvaim.

7Así cubrió de oro tanto la Casa, las vigas, los umbrales, sus paredes y sus puertas, y esculpió querubines sobre las paredes.

8Construyó también la Casa del Santísimo, cuya longitud, correspondiente al ancho de la Casa, era de veinte codos, y su anchura igualmente de veinte codos. Lo revistió de oro puro, que pesaba seiscientos talentos.

9Los clavos de oro pesaban cincuenta siclos. Cubrió de oro también los pisos altos.

10En el interior de la Casa del Santísimo hizo dos querubines, de obra esculpida, que revistió de oro.

11Las alas de los querubines tenían veinte codos de largo. La una del primero era de cinco codos y tocaba la pared de la Casa; la otra ala tenía también cinco codos, y tocaba el ala del otro querubín.

12Del mismo modo un ala del otro querubín era de cinco codos y tocaba la pared de la Casa; la otra ala tenía también cinco codos, y se juntaba al ala del primer querubín.

13Las alas de estos querubines medían desplegadas veinte codos. Estaban ellos de pie, y con sus caras vueltas hacia la Casa.

14Asimismo hizo el velo, de jacinto, púrpura escarlata, carmesí y lino fino, en el cual hizo bordar querubines.

15Delante de la Casa hizo dos columnas de treinta y cinco codos de alto. El capitel que las coronaba tenía cinco codos.

16Forjó, además, cadenillas (como) en el Santísimo, y las colocó sobre los remates de las columnas; e hizo cien granadas, que puso en las cadenillas.

17Erigió las columnas delante del Templo, una a la derecha, y la otra a la izquierda, llamando la de la derecha Jaquín, y la de la izquierda Boas.

1Et cœpit Salomon ædificare domum Domini in Jerusalem in monte Moria, qui demonstratus fuerat David patri ejus, in loco quem paraverat David in area Ornan Jebusæi.

2Cœpit autem ædificare mense secundo, anno quarto regni sui.

3Et hæc sunt fundamenta quæ jecit Salomon, ut ædificaret domum Dei: longitudinis cubitos in mensura prima sexaginta, latitudinis cubitos viginti.

4Porticum vero ante frontem, quæ tendebatur in longum juxta mensuram latitudinis domus, cubitorum viginti: porro altitudo centum viginti cubitorum erat: et deauravit eam intrinsecus auro mundissimo.

5Domum quoque majorem texit tabulis ligneis abiegnis, et laminas auri obrizi affixit per totum: sculpsitque in ea palmas, et quasi catenulas se invicem complectentes.

6Stravit quoque pavimentum templi pretiosissimo marmore, decore multo.

7Porro aurum erat probatissimum, de cujus laminis texit domum, et trabes ejus, et postes, et parietes, et ostia: et cælavit cherubim in parietibus.

8Fecit quoque domum Sancti sanctorum: longitudinem juxta latitudinem domus cubitorum viginti: et latitudinem similiter viginti cubitorum: et laminis aureis texit eam, quasi talentis sexcentis.

9Sed et clavos fecit aureos, ita ut singuli clavi siclos quinquagenos appenderent: cœnacula quoque texit auro.

10Fecit etiam in domo Sancti sanctorum cherubim duos, opere statuario: et texit eos auro.

11Alæ cherubim viginti cubitis extendebantur, ita ut una ala haberet cubitos quinque et tangeret parietem domus: et altera quinque cubitos habens, alam tangeret alterius cherub.

12Similiter cherub alterius ala, quinque habebat cubitos, et tangebat parietem: et ala ejus altera quinque cubitorum, alam cherub alterius contingebat.

13Igitur alæ utriusque cherubim expansæ erant et extendebantur per cubitos viginti: ipsi autem stabant erectis pedibus, et facies eorum erant versæ ad exteriorem domum.

14Fecit quoque velum ex hyacintho, purpura, cocco, et bysso: et intexuit ei cherubim.

15Ante fores etiam templi duas columnas, quæ triginta et quinque cubitos habebant altitudinis: porro capita earum, quinque cubitorum.

16Necnon et quasi catenulas in oraculo, et superposuit eas capitibus columnarum: malogranata etiam centum, quæ catenulis interposuit.

17Ipsas quoque columnas posuit in vestibulo templi, unam a dextris, et alteram a sinistris: eam quæ a dextris erat, vocavit Jachin: et quæ ad lævam, Booz.

1And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in mount Moria, which had been shewn to David his father, in the place which David had prepared in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2And he began to build in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

3Now these are the foundations, which Solomon laid, to build the house of God, the length by the first measure sixty cubits, the breadth twenty cubits.

4And the porch in the front, which was extended in length according to the measure of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits: and the height was a hundred and twenty cubits: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

5And the greater house he ceiled with deal boards, and overlaid them with plates of fine gold throughout: and he graved in them palm trees, and like little chains interlaced with one another.

6He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble, of great beauty.

7And the gold of the plates with which he overlaid the house, and the beams thereof, and the posts, and the walls, and the doors was of the finest: and he graved cherubims on the walls.

8He made also the house of the holy of holies: the length of it according to the breadth of the temple, twenty cubits, and the breadth of it in like manner twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with plates of gold, amounting to about six hundred talents.

9He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty sicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.

10He made also in the house of the holy of holies two cherubims of image work: and he overlaid them with gold.

11The wings of the cherubims were extended twenty cubits, so that one wing was five cubits long, and reached to the wall of the house: and the other was also five cubits long, and reached to the wing of the other cherub.

12In like manner the wing of the other cherub, was five cubits long, and reached to the wall: and his other wing was five cubits long, and touched the wing of the other cherub.

13So the wings of the two cherubims were spread forth, and were extended twenty cubits: and they stood upright on their feet, and their faces were turned toward the house without.

14He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk: and wrought in it cherubims.

15He made also before the doors of the temple two pillars, which were five and thirty cubits high: and their chapiters were five cubits.

16He made also as it were little chains in the oracle, and he put them on the heads of the pillars: and a hundred pomegranates, which he put between the little chains.

17These pillars he put at the entrance of the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left: that which was on the right hand, he called Jachin: and that on the left hand, Boot.