2 Chronicles 3:8

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 covered it with fine gold, to [the number of] six hundred talents;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

7And he covered the house, the beams, the entrance-hall, and the walls thereof and the doors thereof, with gold,—and he carved cherubim upon the walls.

9and, the weight of the nails, amounted to fifty shekels of gold,—and, the upper chambers, covered he with gold.

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Cross References

Exodus 26:33And thou shalt hang up the veil under the clasps,—and shalt bring in thither, within the veil the ark of the testimony; and the veil shall make a division for you between the holy [place] and the most holy.

1 Kings 6:19And, the shrine in the midst of the house within, made he ready,—for placing there, the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.

Hebrews 9:3But, after the second veil, a tent, that which is called Most Holy:

Hebrews 10:19Having therefore, brethren, freedom of speech for the entrance through the 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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