2 Chronicles 3:8

He made the room of the Most Holy Place to correspond with the width of the Temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He covered the interior with six hundred talents of fine gold.

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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

7He covered the beams, thresholds, walls, and doors of the Temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

9The weight of the nails was one shekel for every fifty shekels of gold.

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Cross References

Exodus 26:33Place the veil under the clips and take the Ark of the Testimony inside behind the veil. The veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

1 Kings 6:19He also had the inner sanctuary made within the Temple where the Ark of the Lord's Agreement would be placed.

Hebrews 9:3Past the second veil in the Tabernacle was the room called the Most Holy Place.

Hebrews 10:19Now we have the confidence, brothers and sisters, to enter the Most Holy Place 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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