2 Chronicles 3:8
He built the most holy place. Its length matched the house's width, twenty cubits, and its width was also twenty cubits. He overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
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7He also overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold; he carved cherubs on its walls.
9The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid its high surfaces with gold.
Cross References
Exodus 26:33You must hang up the curtain under the clasps, and you must bring in the ark of the testimony. The curtain is to separate the holy place from the most holy place.
1 Kings 6:19Solomon prepared the inner room inside the house in order to place the ark of the covenant of Yahweh there.
Hebrews 9:3Behind the second curtain was another room, called the most holy place.
Hebrews 10:19Therefore, brothers, we have confidence to enter into 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 →