2 Chronicles 3:5

5 He overlaid 1the main room with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and ornamented * it with palm trees and chains.

2 Chronicles 3:5 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 3:5

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 3:1).

2 Chronicles 3:5 In-Context

3 Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for building the house of God. The length in cubits, according to the old standard was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.
4 The porch which was in front of the house was as long as the width of the house, twenty cubits, and the height 120 ; and inside he overlaid it with pure gold.
5 He overlaid the main room with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.
6 Further, he adorned the house with precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.
7 He also overlaid the house with gold -the beams, the thresholds and its walls and its doors; and he carved cherubim on the walls.

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