2 Chronicles 3:9

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

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In The King James Version

And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

In Context

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.

10And in the most holy place he made images of two winged beings, covering them with gold.

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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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