2 Chronicles 3:6
He decorated the house with precious stones; the gold was gold from Parvaim.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
In Context
7He also overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold; he carved cherubs on its walls.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:8Those who had precious stones gave them to the treasury of Yahweh's house, under the supervision of Jehiel, a descendant of Gershon.
Revelation 21:18The wall was built of jasper and the city of pure gold, like clear glass.
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 →