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The material here is repeated from I Kings 6 .
Chapter 3 records for us information about the Temple. The time of the building was the second month (April) of the forth year of his reign, 957 BC. The place was Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David and the dimensions were 30 feet wide by 90 feet long by 180 feet high. The inner walls and ceiling were overlaid with pure gold. The main part of the Temple was paneled with cypress wood that was gold plated and encrusted with beautiful jewels. All the beams, doors and thresholds throughout the Temple were gold plated and angels were engraved on the walls.
The Temple consisted of two rooms. The west room was the Holy of Holies and was about 30 foot square. This room housed the Ark of the Covenant that was guarded by two cherubim's. The outer room, approximately 60 feet by 30 feet, was called the Holy Place. The two rooms were separated by a veil made of fine-spun linen.
At the door to the Temple were two "free standing" pillars, 52 and one half feet high and topped by a 7 and one half foot cap. The one on the left was called Boaz and the one on the right was called Jachin.
Notice the Temple was built on Mt. Moriah, the highest hill in Jerusalem. Two other significant events took place there. Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac there in Gen. Ch.22. Orman's threshing floor was there and David prepared a sacrifice there that stopped the plague that the Lord had sent in judgment for David's sin of taking a census.
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