2 Chronicles 3:8

8 Then he made {the most holy place}. Its length {was equal to} the width of the house: twenty cubits. And its breadth [was] twenty cubits. And he overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold.

2 Chronicles 3:8 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 3:8

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 3:1).

2 Chronicles 3:8 In-Context

6 Then he overlaid the house with precious stone as decoration. (Now the gold [was] the gold of Parvaim.)

7 And he overlaid the house with gold--the beams, the thresholds, the walls, and the doors. And he carved cherubim upon the walls.

8 Then he made {the most holy place}. Its length {was equal to} the width of the house: twenty cubits. And its breadth [was] twenty cubits. And he overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold.

9 And the weight for the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid its upper rooms with gold.

10 And he made two sculpted wood cherubim in {the most holy place}, and he overlaid them with gold.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "the house of the holy of the holies"
• [b]. Literally "at the front of"