2 Chroniques 3

1Salomon commença à bâtir la maison de Yahweh à Jérusalem, sur le mont Moria, qui avait été indiqué à David, son père, au lieu qu’avait préparé David, sur l’aire d’Ornan le Jébuséen.

2Il commença à bâtir le deuxième jour du deuxième mois, en la quatrième année de son règne.

3Voici les fondements que posa Salomon pour bâtir la maison de Dieu. La longueur, en coudées de l’ancienne mesure, était de soixante coudées, et la largeur de vingt coudées.

4Le portique qui était sur le devant de la longueur, répondant à la largeur de la maison, avait vingt coudées de longueur et cent vingt coudées de hauteur ; Salomon le couvrit d’or pur à l’intérieur.

5Il revêtit la grande maison de bois de cyprès, il la revêtit d’or pur et y fit sculpter des palmes et des chaînettes.

6Il revêtit la maison de pierres précieuses pour la décorer, et l’or était de Parvaïm.

7Il revêtit d’or la maison, les poutres, les seuils, les murs et les portes, et il fit sculpter des chérubins sur les murs.

8Il fit la maison du Saint des saints ; sa longueur, répondant à la largeur de la maison, était de vingt coudées, et sa largeur de vingt coudées. Il la revêtit d’or pur, pour une valeur de six cents talents ;

9et le poids de l’or pour les clous était de cinquante sicles. Il revêtit aussi d’or les chambres hautes.

10Il fit dans la maison du Saint des saints deux chérubins, œuvre de sculpture, et on les revêtit d’or.

11Les ailes des chérubins avaient ensemble vingt coudées de longueur. Une aile du premier, longue de cinq coudées, touchait au mur de la maison, et l’autre aile, longue de cinq coudées, touchait à l’aile de l’autre chérubin.

12Une aile du second chérubin, longue de cinq coudées, touchait au mur de la maison ; et l’autre aile, longue de cinq coudées, rejoignait l’aile de l’autre chérubin.

13Les ailes de ces chérubins, déployées, avaient vingt coudées. Ils étaient debout sur leurs pieds, la face tournée vers la maison.

14Salomon fit un voile de pourpre violette, de pourpre rouge, de cramoisi et de fin lin, et il y broda des chérubins.

15Il fit devant la maison deux colonnes de trente-cinq coudées de hauteur, et le chapiteau qui était sur leur sommet avait cinq coudées.

16Il fit des chaînettes, comme dans le sanctuaire, et les mit au haut des colonnes, et il fit cent grenades qu’il mit dans les chaînettes.

17Il dressa les colonnes sur le devant du temple, l’une à droite, l’autre à gauche ; il nomma celle de droite Jachin, et celle de gauche Booz.

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.