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(A) The most holy place was nine meters square, and its walls were covered with over 20 tons of fine gold. Five hundred and seventy grams of gold was used to cover the heads of the nails. The walls of the small storage rooms were also covered with gold.[a]

10 (B) Solomon had two statues of winged creatures[b] made to put in the most holy place, and he covered them with gold. 11-13 Each creature had two wings and was four and a half meters from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other wing. Solomon set them next to each other in the most holy place, facing the doorway. Their wings were spread out and reached all the way across the nine-meter room.

14 (C) A curtain[c] was made of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool, and embroidered with designs of winged creatures.

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Footnotes

  1. 3.9 The walls … gold: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 3.10 statues of winged creatures: These were symbols of the Lord's throne on earth (see Exodus 25.18-22).
  3. 3.14 A curtain: To separate the most holy place from the main room of the temple.

He built the Most Holy Place,(A) 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(B) weighed fifty shekels.[b] He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.

10 For the Most Holy Place he made a pair(C) 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[c] long and touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub. 12 Similarly one wing of the second cherub was five cubits long and touched the other temple wall, and its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the first cherub. 13 The wings of these cherubim(D) extended twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main hall.[d]

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

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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
  3. 2 Chronicles 3:11 That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters; also in verse 15
  4. 2 Chronicles 3:13 Or facing inward