2 Chronicles 3:5

And he lined the great house with cedar wood, and gilded it with pure gold, and carved upon it palm trees and chains.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

4And the portico in front of the house, its length in front of the breadth of the house was twenty cubits, and its height a hundred and twenty cubits: and he gilded it within with pure gold.

6And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty; and he gilded it with gold of the gold from Parvaim.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:21in front of the oracle, and covered it 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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