2 Chronicles 3:5

He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

In Context

4The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

6He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:21So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.

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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