The porch which was in front of the house (A)was as long as the width of the house, [a]twenty cubits, and the height [b]twenty; and inside he overlaid it with pure gold. He overlaid (B)the [c]main room with juniper wood and overlaid it with fine gold; and he [d]ornamented it with palm trees and chains. Further, he overlaid the house [e]with precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim. (C)He also overlaid the house with gold—the beams, the thresholds, and its walls and doors; and he (D)carved cherubim on the walls.

Then he made (E)the [f]room of the Most Holy Place: its length across the width of the house was [g]twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to [h]six hundred talents. The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid (F)the upper rooms with gold.

10 (G)Then he made two [i]sculptured cherubim in the room of the Most Holy Place and overlaid them with gold.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 3:4 About 30 ft. or 9 m
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:4 As in ancient versions; MT 120 cubits or about 180 ft. or 55 m
  3. 2 Chronicles 3:5 Lit great house
  4. 2 Chronicles 3:5 Lit put on it palm trees
  5. 2 Chronicles 3:6 Lit for beauty
  6. 2 Chronicles 3:8 Lit house
  7. 2 Chronicles 3:8 About 30 ft. or 9 m
  8. 2 Chronicles 3:8 About 23 tons or 21 metric tons
  9. 2 Chronicles 3:10 Lit cherubim of cast work

The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits[a] long across the width of the building and twenty[b] cubits high.

He overlaid the inside with pure gold. He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree(A) and chain designs. He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim. He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim(B) on the walls.

He built the Most Holy Place,(C) its length corresponding to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talents[c] of fine gold. The gold nails(D) weighed fifty shekels.[d] He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.

10 For the Most Holy Place he made a pair(E) of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:4 That is, about 30 feet or about 9 meters; also in verses 8, 11 and 13
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:4 Some Septuagint and Syriac manuscripts; Hebrew and a hundred and twenty
  3. 2 Chronicles 3:8 That is, about 23 tons or about 21 metric tons
  4. 2 Chronicles 3:9 That is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams