2 Chronicles 3:8

And 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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In The King James Version

And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

In Context

7All 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.

9And fifty shekels weight of gold was used for the nails. He had all the higher rooms plated with gold.

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Cross References

Exodus 26:33And you are to put up the veil under the hooks, and put inside it the ark of the law: the veil is to be a division between the holy place and the most holy.

1 Kings 6:19And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.

Hebrews 9:3And inside the second veil was the place which is named the Holy of holies;

Hebrews 10:19So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus,

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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