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He made the Most Holy Place. It was thirty feet by thirty feet, the same dimensions as the width of the building, and he overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold.[a] The weight of the gold nails was more than a pound.[b] He overlaid the upper areas with gold.

The Cherubim

10 In the Most Holy Place he made two carved cherubim that were overlaid with gold.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:8 Because of widely varying estimates for the weight of a talent (68 pounds to 130 pounds) most translations retain the term talents. The smallest estimated weight of the gold would be about 20 tons. The notes of this translation use the estimate of 75 pounds for a talent.
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:9 Literally fifty shekels