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Salomão constrói o templo
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3 Finalmente, começou a construção do templo em Jerusalém, no cimo do monte Moriá, onde o Senhor aparecera a David, seu pai, onde se localizava a eira de Ornã, o jebuseu. Foi David quem escolheu esse sítio. 2 O início da construção teve lugar no dia 2 do segundo mês[a], no quarto ano do reinado de Salomão.
3-4 Os alicerces tinham 30 metros de comprimento e 10 de largura. Havia um alpendre ao longo dos 10 metros da largura do edifício, na parte da frente. A sua parte interior e o teto eram cobertos de ouro puro. O telhado estava à altura de 60 metros.
5 A parte principal do templo era forrada com madeira de cipreste, coberta de ouro puro, com gravações de folhas de palmeiras e cadeias. 6 Havia pedras preciosas incrustadas nas paredes, para aumentar a sua beleza; o ouro era do melhor, de Parvaim. 7 Todas as paredes, traves, portas e ombreiras das entradas do templo estavam cobertas de ouro com querubins gravados.
O lugar santíssimo
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8 Dentro, numa extremidade, ficava o local mais sagrado, o lugar santíssimo, com 10 metros quadrados. Esta área também era toda coberta de ouro do mais puro, pesando 21 toneladas. 9 Os pregos ali usados eram igualmente de ouro e pesavam 575 gramas cada. As salas superiores estavam também forradas a ouro.
10 Dentro da referida dependência, o lugar santíssimo, Salomão colocou duas esculturas de querubins revestidas de ouro. 11-13 Os querubins estavam de pé ao lado um do outro, voltados para a entrada. Tinha cada um duas asas com 2,5 metros de comprimento. Uma tocava a parede da sala e a outra tocava a asa do outro querubim. As asas assim estendidas mediam 10 metros.
14 À entrada desta sala colocou um véu em azul, vermelho, púrpura e linho fino, decorado também com querubins.
Os dois pilares na frente do templo
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15 Na frente do templo havia dois pilares de 17,5 metros de altura, com capitéis de 2,5 metros que os ligavam ao teto. 16 Mandou fazer cadeias, como as do santuário, e colocou-as no cimo dos pilares; havia 100 romãs ligadas às cadeias. 17 Os pilares, colocou-os um à direita e o outro à esquerda, na parte da frente do templo, e deu-lhes nomes: ao da direita deu o nome de Jaquim, ao da esquerda, Boaz.[b]
2 Chronicles 3
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3 1 The Temple of the Lord, and the porch are built, with other things thereto belonging.
1 So (A)Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in mount [a]Moriah which had been declared unto David his father, in the place that David prepared in the threshing floor of (B)Ornan the Jebusite.
2 And he began to build in the second month and the second day, in the fourth year of his reign.
3 And these are the measures whereon Solomon grounded to build the house of God: the length of cubits after the first [b]measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits:
4 And the porch that was before the length in the front [c]of the breadth was twenty cubits, and the height was an [d]hundred and twenty, and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
5 And the greater house he ceiled with fir tree which he overlaid with good gold, and graved thereon palm trees and chains.
6 And he overlaid the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of [e]Parvaim.
7 The house, I say, the beams, posts, and walls thereof and the doors thereof overlaid he with gold, and graved Cherubims upon the walls.
8 ¶ He made also the house of the most holy place: the length thereof was in the front of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with the best gold, of six hundred talents.
9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold, and he overlaid the chambers with gold.
10 ¶ And in the house of the most holy place he made two Cherubims wrought like children, and overlaid them with gold.
11 (C)And the wings of the Cherubims were twenty cubits long: the one wing was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house, and the other wing five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other Cherub.
12 Likewise the wing of the other Cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house, and the other wing five cubits, joining to the wing of the other Cherub.
13 The wings of these Cherubims were spread abroad twenty cubits, they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.
14 ¶ He made also the [f]veil of blue silk and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought Cherubims thereon.
15 ¶ And he made before the house two pillars [g]of five and thirty cubits high: and the chapiter that was upon the top of each of them, was five cubits.
16 He made also chains for the Oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars, and made an [h]hundred pomegranates, and put them among the chains.
17 And he set up the pillars before the Temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left, and called that on the right hand Jachin, and that on the left hand Boaz.
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 3:1 Which is the mountain where Abraham thought to have sacrificed his son, Gen. 22:2.
- 2 Chronicles 3:3 According to the whole length of the Temple, comprehending the most holy place with the rest.
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 It contained as much as did the breadth of the Temple, 1 Kings 6:3.
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 From the foundation to the top: for in the book of the kings mention is made from the foundation to the first stage.
- 2 Chronicles 3:6 Some think it is that place which is called Peru.
- 2 Chronicles 3:14 Which separated the Temple from the most holy place.
- 2 Chronicles 3:15 Every one was eighteen cubits long, but the half cubit could not be seen, for it was hid in the roundness of the chapiter, and therefore he giveth to every one but 17 and an half.
- 2 Chronicles 3:16 For every pillar an hundred, read 1 Kings 7:20.
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