2 Chronicles 3:7

All the house was plated with gold, the supports, the steps, the walls and the doors; and the walls were ornamented with designs of winged ones.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.

In Context

6And the house was made beautiful with stones of great value, and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

8And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.

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Cross References

Exodus 26:29And the boards are to be plated with gold, having gold rings for the rods to go through: and the rods are to be plated with gold.

1 Kings 6:29And all the walls of the house inside and out were ornamented with forms of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 3:2-10

The Temple Built. ( b. c. 1012.) 1 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. 2 And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. 3 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth… Read the whole commentary →

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