2 Chronicles 3:6

He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble, of great beauty.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 ceiled with deal boards, and overlaid them with plates of fine gold throughout: and he graved in them palm trees, and like little chains interlaced with one another.

7And the gold of the plates with which he overlaid the house, and the beams thereof, and the posts, and the walls, and the doors was of the finest: and he graved cherubims on the walls.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:8And all they that had stones, gave them to the treasures of the house of the Lord, by the hand of Jahiel the Gersonite.

Revelation 21:18And the building of the wall thereof was of jasper stone: but the city itself pure gold, like to clear 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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