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Selected Verse: 2 Chronicles 3:8 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
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| 2Ch 3:8 |
Strong Concordance |
And he made [06213] the most [06944] holy [06944] house [01004], the length [0753] whereof was according to [06440] the breadth [07341] of the house [01004], twenty [06242] cubits [0520], and the breadth [07341] thereof twenty [06242] cubits [0520]: and he overlaid [02645] it with fine [02896] gold [02091], amounting to six [08337] hundred [03967] talents [03603]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
DIMENSIONS, &C., OF THE MOST HOLY HOUSE. (Ch2 3:8-13)
the most holy house--It was a perfect cube (compare Kg1 6:20).
overlaid it with . . . gold, amounting to six hundred talents--at £4 per ounce, equal to £3,600,000. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The most holy house - i. e., the sanctuary, or holy of holies. On the probable value of the gold, see Kg1 10:14 note. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| The most holy place, with the figures of the cherubim and the veil; cf. Kg1 6:19-28. - The length of the most holy place in front of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, consequently measured in the same way as the porch (Ch2 3:4); the breadth, i.e., the depth of it, also twenty cubits. The height, which was the same (Kg1 6:20), is not stated; but instead of that we have the weight of the gold which was used for the gilding, which is omitted in 1 Kings 6, viz., 600 talents for the overlaying of the walls, and 50 shekels for the nails to fasten the sheet gold on the wainscotting. He covered the upper chambers of the most holy place also with gold; see Ch1 28:11. This is not noticed in 1 Kings 6. |
20 And the oracle [01687] in the forepart [06440] was twenty [06242] cubits [0520] in length [0753], and twenty [06242] cubits [0520] in breadth [07341], and twenty [06242] cubits [0520] in the height [06967] thereof: and he overlaid [06823] it with pure [05462] gold [02091]; and so covered [06823] the altar [04196] which was of cedar [0730].
8 And he made [06213] the most [06944] holy [06944] house [01004], the length [0753] whereof was according to [06440] the breadth [07341] of the house [01004], twenty [06242] cubits [0520], and the breadth [07341] thereof twenty [06242] cubits [0520]: and he overlaid [02645] it with fine [02896] gold [02091], amounting to six [08337] hundred [03967] talents [03603].
9 And the weight [04948] of the nails [04548] was fifty [02572] shekels [08255] of gold [02091]. And he overlaid [02645] the upper chambers [05944] with gold [02091].
10 And in the most [06944] holy [06944] house [01004] he made [06213] two [08147] cherubims [03742] of image [06816] work [04639], and overlaid [06823] them with gold [02091].
11 And the wings [03671] of the cherubims [03742] were twenty [06242] cubits [0520] long [0753]: one [0259] wing [03671] of the one cherub was five [02568] cubits [0520], reaching [05060] to the wall [07023] of the house [01004]: and the other [0312] wing [03671] was likewise five [02568] cubits [0520], reaching [05060] to the wing [03671] of the other [0312] cherub [03742].
12 And one wing [03671] of the other [0259] cherub [03742] was five [02568] cubits [0520], reaching [05060] to the wall [07023] of the house [01004]: and the other [0312] wing [03671] was five [02568] cubits [0520] also, joining [01695] to the wing [03671] of the other [0312] cherub [03742].
13 The wings [03671] of these cherubims [03742] spread themselves forth [06566] twenty [06242] cubits [0520]: and they stood [05975] on their feet [07272], and their faces [06440] were inward [01004].
14 Now the weight [04948] of gold [02091] that came [0935] to Solomon [08010] in one [0259] year [08141] was six [08337] hundred [03967] threescore [08346] and six [08337] talents [03603] of gold [02091],
11 Then David [01732] gave [05414] to Solomon [08010] his son [01121] the pattern [08403] of the porch [0197], and of the houses [01004] thereof, and of the treasuries [01597] thereof, and of the upper chambers [05944] thereof, and of the inner [06442] parlours [02315] thereof, and of the place [01004] of the mercy seat [03727],
20 And the oracle [01687] in the forepart [06440] was twenty [06242] cubits [0520] in length [0753], and twenty [06242] cubits [0520] in breadth [07341], and twenty [06242] cubits [0520] in the height [06967] thereof: and he overlaid [06823] it with pure [05462] gold [02091]; and so covered [06823] the altar [04196] which was of cedar [0730].
4 And the porch [0197] that was in the front [06440] of the house, the length [0753] of it was according to the breadth [07341] of the house [01004], twenty [06242] cubits [0520], and the height [01363] was an hundred [03967] and twenty [06242]: and he overlaid [06823] it within [06441] with pure [02889] gold [02091].
19 And the oracle [01687] he prepared [03559] in [08432] the house [01004] within [06441], to set [05414] there the ark [0727] of the covenant [01285] of the LORD [03068].
20 And the oracle [01687] in the forepart [06440] was twenty [06242] cubits [0520] in length [0753], and twenty [06242] cubits [0520] in breadth [07341], and twenty [06242] cubits [0520] in the height [06967] thereof: and he overlaid [06823] it with pure [05462] gold [02091]; and so covered [06823] the altar [04196] which was of cedar [0730].
21 So Solomon [08010] overlaid [06823] the house [01004] within [06441] with pure [05462] gold [02091]: and he made a partition [05674] by the chains [07572] [07572] of gold [02091] before [06440] the oracle [01687]; and he overlaid [06823] it with gold [02091].
22 And the whole house [01004] he overlaid [06823] with gold [02091], until he had finished [08552] all the house [01004]: also the whole altar [04196] that was by the oracle [01687] he overlaid [06823] with gold [02091].
23 And within the oracle [01687] he made [06213] two [08147] cherubims [03742] of olive [08081] tree [06086], each ten [06235] cubits [0520] high [06967].
24 And five [02568] cubits [0520] was the one [0259] wing [03671] of the cherub [03742], and five [02568] cubits [0520] the other [08145] wing [03671] of the cherub [03742]: from the uttermost part [07098] of the one wing [03671] unto the uttermost part [07098] of the other [03671] were ten [06235] cubits [0520].
25 And the other [08145] cherub [03742] was ten [06235] cubits [0520]: both [08147] the cherubims [03742] were of one [0259] measure [04060] and one [0259] size [07095].
26 The height [06967] of the one [0259] cherub [03742] was ten [06235] cubits [0520], and so was it of the other [08145] cherub [03742].
27 And he set [05414] the cherubims [03742] within [08432] the inner [06442] house [01004]: and they stretched forth [06566] the wings [03671] of the cherubims [03742], so that the wing [03671] of the one [0259] touched [05060] the one wall [07023], and the wing [03671] of the other [08145] cherub [03742] touched [05060] the other [08145] wall [07023]; and their wings [03671] touched [05060] one [03671] another [03671] in the midst [08432] of the house [01004].
28 And he overlaid [06823] the cherubims [03742] with gold [02091].