2 Chronicles 3:7

And he gilded the house, and its inner walls, and the doorposts, and the roofs, and the doors with gold; and he carved cherubs on the walls.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.

In Context

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

8And he built the holy of holies, its length was according to the front of the other house, the breadth of the house was twenty cubits, and the length twenty cubits: and he gilded it with pure gold for cherubs, to the amount of six hundred talents.

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Cross References

Exodus 26:29And thou shalt gild the posts with gold; and thou shalt make golden rings, into which thou shalt introduce the bars, and thou shalt gild the bars with gold.

1 Kings 6:29He graved all the walls of the house round about with the graving of cherubs, and he sculptured palm trees within and without the house.

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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