2 Chronicles 3:5

He paneled the main room with cypress overlaid with fine gold, with images of palm trees and chains.

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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 front porch that ran across the width of the Temple was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He covered the inside of the porch with pure gold.

6He decorated the Temple with beautiful gems, and with gold he imported from Parvaim.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:21Solomon had the whole of the inside of the Temple covered with pure gold, He had gold chains stretched across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was also covered 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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