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殿前走廊长九公尺,与殿的宽度相等;高九公尺(“高九公尺”原文作“高一百二十”;现参照古译本修译);里面贴上纯金。 大殿的墙都盖上松木,又贴上精金,又在上面刻上棕树和链子。 又用宝石装饰殿墙,十分华美;金子都是巴瓦音的金子。

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The porch[a] that was in front of the temple building was thirty feet wide, the same as the width of the building, and it was thirty feet high.[b]

He overlaid the inside with pure gold. He lined the larger front room of the building with fir paneling,[c] which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains. He beautified the house with dazzling precious stones. The gold was gold of Parvaim.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:4 Or entry hall. It is uncertain if this was an unroofed porch or an enclosed vestibule.
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:4 The Hebrew text reads one hundred twenty cubits (one hundred eighty feet), but the Greek and Syriac texts and the data concerning the height of the pillars for the porch all support a height of twenty cubits (thirty feet). Perhaps the Hebrew word amwt (cubit) was accidentally changed into the word mawt (hundred) by the inversion of two letters. The account in Kings does not give the height of the porch.
  3. 2 Chronicles 3:5 According to 1 Kings 6:15, the floor was fir and the walls were cedar. This verse in Chronicles does not mention this distinction.
  4. 2 Chronicles 3:6 The meaning or location of the Hebrew term Parvaim is unknown.

A covered porch ran along the entire thirty-foot width of the Temple, with the inner walls and ceiling overlaid with pure gold! The roof was 180 feet high.

The main part of the Temple was paneled with cypress wood, plated with pure gold, and engraved with palm trees and chains. Beautiful jewels were inlaid into the walls to add to the beauty; the gold, by the way, was of the best, from Parvaim.

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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.

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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

And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

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