2 Chronicles 3:8

Also, he made the house of the Holy of Holies. Its length, in accord with the width of the temple, was of twenty cubits. And its width, similarly, was of twenty cubits. And he covered it with layers of gold, of about six hundred talents.

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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

7Now the gold, with which he covered in layers the house and its beams and posts and walls and doors, was highly refined. And he engraved cherubim on the walls.

9Then he also made nails of gold, such that each nail weighed fifty shekels. Also, he covered the upper rooms in gold.

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Cross References

Exodus 26:33Then the veil shall be inserted through the rings. Beyond the veil, you shall place the ark of the testimony, where both the Sanctuary and the Sanctuary of Sanctuaries shall be divided.

1 Kings 6:19Now he made the oracle in the middle of the house, in the inner part, so that he might station the ark of the covenant of the Lord there.

Hebrews 9:3Then, beyond the second veil, was the tabernacle, which is called the Holy of Holies,

Hebrews 10:19And so, brothers, have faith in the entrance into the Holy of Holies by the blood of Christ,

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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