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Twenty-six-ounce gold nails were used. The upper rooms were also plated with pure gold.

10 Within the innermost room, the Holy of Holies, Solomon placed two sculptured statues of Guardian Angels and plated them with gold. 11-13 They stood on the floor facing the outer room, with wings stretched wing tip to wing tip across the room, from wall to wall.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:11 with wings stretched . . . from wall to wall, literally, “one wing of a cherub, five cubits long.”

The gold nails(A) weighed fifty shekels.[a] He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.

10 For the Most Holy Place he made a pair(B) of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold. 11 The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits[b] long and touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:9 That is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:11 That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters; also in verse 15