1. King David, Solomon's father, had already prepared a place for the Temple. It was in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared to David, the place which Araunah the Jebusite had used as a threshing place. King Solomon began the construction
2. in the second month of the fourth year that he was king.
3. The Temple which King Solomon built was 27 metres long and nine metres wide.
4. The entrance room was the full width of the Temple, nine metres, and was 54 metres high. The inside of the room was overlaid with pure gold.
5. The main room was panelled with cedar and overlaid with fine gold, in which were worked designs of palm trees and chain patterns.
11-13. where they stood side by side facing the entrance. Each had two wings, each wing 2.2 metres long, which were spread out so that they touched each other in the centre of the room and reached the wall on either side of the room, stretching across the full width of about nine metres.