21 Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.

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21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.

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14 He made the curtain(A) of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim(B) worked into it.

15 For the front of the temple he made two pillars,(C) which together were thirty-five cubits[a] long, each with a capital(D) five cubits high. 16 He made interwoven chains[b](E) and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates(F) and attached them to the chains.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:15 That is, about 53 feet or about 16 meters
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:16 Or possibly made chains in the inner sanctuary; the meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.

14 And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.

15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

16 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

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He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim(A) on the walls.

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

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:8 That is, about 23 tons or about 21 metric tons
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:9 That is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams

He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.

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.

And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

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Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms.(A)

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And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:

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34 They overlaid the frames with gold and made gold rings to hold the crossbars. They also overlaid the crossbars with gold.

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34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

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32 Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.(A) 33 Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the covenant law behind the curtain.(B) The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.(C)

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32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.

33 And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.

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29 Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.

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29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.

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