The Temple Built on Mount Moriah

"Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite."

"And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold." Precious stones and gold "of Parvaim" adorn it.

"He made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon." Two pillars "of thirty and five cubits high" stand before the house; "and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz."

Moriah

Only here does the Bible identify the temple mount with Moriah, the land where Abraham was to sacrifice Isaac (Genesis 22:2). The link joins the temple to Abraham, David and Ornan's threshing floor.

A 120-cubit porch?

A porch about 55–60 m high in front of a 30-cubit-high house would be a tower. All library texts read 120; some Greek and Syriac witnesses are reported to read 20, which many scholars prefer. See the passage page.

Pillars 18 or 35 cubits

1 Kings 7:15 makes each pillar 18 cubits high; 2 Chronicles 3:15 says 35 (perhaps the two together, 2 × 17.5).

A veil

Kings mentions doors of olive wood before the inner shrine (1 Kings 6:31–32); Chronicles mentions a veil, like the tabernacle's (Exodus 26:31). The Second Temple had a veil (Matthew 27:51).