2 Chronicles 3:6

And he overlaid the house with precious stones for beauty; and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

In Context

5And the greater house he boarded with cypress-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set on it palm-trees and chains.

7And he covered the house, the beams, the threshold, and its walls, and its doors with gold, and engraved cherubim on the walls.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:8And they with whom stones were found gave [them] to the treasure of the house of Jehovah, into the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.

Revelation 21:18And the building of its wall [was] jasper; and the city pure gold, like pure glass:

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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