2 Chronicles 3:8

And he made the house of the most holy place, the length of which was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits; and he covered it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

Darby Translation

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

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

9And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he covered the upper chambers with gold.

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Cross References

Exodus 26:33And thou shalt bring the veil under the clasps, and bring in thither, inside the veil, the ark of the testimony; and the curtain shall make a division to you between the holy [place] and the holiest of all.

1 Kings 6:19And he prepared the oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.

Hebrews 9:3but after the second veil a tabernacle which is called Holy of holies,

Hebrews 10:19Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the [holy of] holies by 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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