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2 Crônicas 3

ARC · Chapter 3/36

1E começou Salomão a edificar a casa do Senhor em Jerusalem, no monte de Moria, onde o Senhor se tinha mostrado a David seu pae, no logar que David tinha preparado na eira d'Ornan, jebuseo.

2E começou a edificar no segundo mez, no dia segundo, no anno quarto do seu reinado.

3E estes foram os fundamentos que Salomão poz para edificar a casa de Deus: o comprimento em covados, segundo a medida primeira, de sessenta covados, e a largura de vinte covados.

4E o alpendre, que estava na frente, de comprimento segundo a largura da casa, era de vinte covados, e a altura de cento e vinte: o que dentro cobriu com oiro puro.

5E a casa grande cobriu com madeira de faia; e então a cobriu com oiro fino: e fez sobre ella palmas e cadeias.

6Tambem a casa adornou de pedras preciosas para ornamento: e o oiro era oiro de Parvaim.

7Tambem na casa cobriu as traves, os umbraes, e as suas paredes, e as suas portas, com oiro: e lavrou cherubins nas paredes.

8Fez mais a casa da sanctidade das sanctidades, cujo comprimento, segundo a largura da casa, era de vinte covados, e a sua largura de vinte covados: e cobriu-a de oiro fino, do peso de seiscentos talentos.

9O peso dos pregos era de cincoenta siclos d'oiro: e os cenaculos cobriu d'oiro.

10Tambem fez na casa da sanctidade das sanctidades dois cherubins de feição d'andantes, e cobriu-os d'oiro.

11E, quanto ás azas dos cherubins, o seu comprimento era de vinte covados; a aza d'um d'elles de cinco covados, e tocava na parede da casa; e a outra aza de cinco covados, e tocava na aza do outro cherubim.

12Tambem a aza do outro cherubim era de cinco covados, e tocava na parede da casa: era tambem a outra aza de cinco covados, e estava pegada á aza do outro cherubim.

13E as azas d'estes cherubins se estendiam vinte covados: e estavam postos em pé, e os seus rostos virados para a casa.

14Tambem fez o véu de azul, e purpura, e carmezim, e linho fino: e poz sobre elle cherubins.

15Fez tambem diante da casa duas columnas de trinta e cinco covados d'altura: e o capitel, que estava sobre cada uma, era de cinco covados.

16Tambem fez as cadeias, como no oraculo, e as poz sobre as cabeças das columnas: fez tambem cem romãs, as quaes poz entre as cadeias.

17E levantou as columnas diante do templo, uma á direita, e outra á esquerda; e chamou o nome da que estava á direita Jachin, e o nome da que estava á esquerda Boaz.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

Construction of the temple begins on Mount Moriah, on the very site where David had bought the threshing floor of Ornan. Architectural details are described: dimensions, gold overlay, the carved cherubim, and the two bronze pillars at the entrance, named Jachin and Boaz.

Explanation

The temple's exact location on Mount Moriah connects this moment to two deeply significant earlier events: Abraham's near-sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22) and David's purchase of the land after the plague (1 Chronicles 21). This geographical continuity suggests that God was guiding the history of his people through centuries toward this culminating point of establishing a permanent place of worship. The extravagant details of gold covering nearly every interior surface show the effort to visually represent the majesty and holiness of God through the physical beauty of the sacred space.

Fun facts

  • The bronze pillars at the temple entrance, named Jachin ('he shall establish') and Boaz ('in him is strength'), stood 35 cubits tall (about 16 meters/52 feet) and were likely decorative and symbolic rather than structural, visually marking the entrance to the sacred space.
  • Solomon's temple had relatively modest dimensions compared to temples of other contemporary ancient civilizations, but it was considered extraordinarily rich in precious materials, especially gold.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. 2 Crônicas 3:1The temple is built on Mount Moriah, on the very plot David bought from Ornan to raise an altar, told earlier in Chronicles. Jewish tradition links this same mountain to the place where Abraham nearly sacrificed Isaac in Genesis — a site with symbolic weight long before it became the temple’s address.
  2. 2 Crônicas 3:2The start of the work is dated with precision — the second month, the second day, the fourth year of Solomon’s reign — a way of anchoring the temple’s construction to an exact historical moment.
  3. 2 Crônicas 3:3The temple’s base measurements — sixty cubits long by twenty wide, a cubit being roughly a foot and a half — follow the same standard used since the tabernacle in the wilderness.
  4. 2 Crônicas 3:4The porch at the entrance had the same width as the house and an impressive height, all overlaid with pure gold inside — a portico built to impress before anyone even entered the temple.
  5. 2 Crônicas 3:5The main hall was lined with cypress wood and then covered with fine gold, decorated with carved palm trees and chains.
  6. 2 Crônicas 3:6Besides the gold, precious stones decorated the house, and the gold used came specifically from Parvaim, a place famous for that metal at the time.
  7. 2 Crônicas 3:7Beams, doorframes, walls, and doors of the temple were all covered with gold, and the walls had carved cherubim — luxury and religious symbolism side by side.
  8. 2 Crônicas 3:8The Most Holy Place, the innermost and most sacred room of the temple, was a perfect cube twenty cubits on each side, covered inside with an enormous amount of fine gold.
  9. 2 Crônicas 3:9Even the nails used there were gold, and the upper chambers were also given this overlay — a level of detail that shows how carefully the project was carried out.
  10. 2 Crônicas 3:10Inside the Most Holy Place, Solomon sets up two cherub statues covered in gold, appearing to stand upright, guarding that most sacred space.
  11. 2 Crônicas 3:11The cherubim’s wings were enormous — five cubits each — and stretched out to touch the wall on one side and the other cherub’s wing in the middle.
  12. 2 Crônicas 3:12The description continues detailing the second cherub’s wings, mirroring the first one’s measurements exactly, forming a symmetrical pair.
  13. 2 Crônicas 3:13Together, the two cherubim’s wings spanned twenty cubits wide, and the figures stood facing inward toward the temple’s main hall.
  14. 2 Crônicas 3:14The veil separating the Most Holy Place was fine linen dyed blue, purple, and crimson, embroidered with cherubim — the same combination used since Moses’s tabernacle.
  15. 2 Crônicas 3:15In front of the temple, Solomon raises two enormous bronze pillars, thirty-five cubits tall, each crowned with a five-cubit capital.
  16. 2 Crônicas 3:16Decorative chains, similar to those in the Most Holy Place, are placed on top of these pillars, along with a hundred carved pomegranates among them — purely symbolic ornament at the entrance.
  17. 2 Crônicas 3:17The two pillars at the temple entrance receive proper names, Jachin and Boaz, which in Hebrew suggest something like ‘he establishes’ and ‘in it is strength.’ They held nothing up above, being purely decorative, but they carried that symbolic meaning right at the entrance for anyone arriving.

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