OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 6

2 Chronicles 3:6

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He decorated the house with precious stones for beauty. The gold was gold from Parvaim.

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2 Chronicles 3:3–9

3

Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of God’s house: the length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.

4

The porch that was in front, its length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

5

He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.

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He decorated the house with precious stones for beauty. The gold was gold from Parvaim.

7

He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold, and engraved cherubim on the walls.

8

He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

9

The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

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