2 Chronicles 3:9

He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty sicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

8He made also the house of the holy of holies: the length of it according to the breadth of the temple, twenty cubits, and the breadth of it in like manner twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with plates of gold, amounting to about six hundred talents.

10He made also in the house of the holy of holies two cherubims of image work: and he overlaid 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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