2 Chronicles 3:7

7 Everything was coated with gold veneer: rafters, doorframes, walls, and doors. Cherubim were engraved on the walls.

2 Chronicles 3:7 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 3:7

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 3:1).

2 Chronicles 3:7 In-Context

5 He paneled the main hall with cypress and veneered it with fine gold engraved with palm tree and chain designs.

6 He decorated the building with precious stones and gold from Parvaim.

7 Everything was coated with gold veneer: rafters, doorframes, walls, and doors. Cherubim were engraved on the walls.

8 He made the Holy of Holies a cube, thirty feet wide, long, and high. It was veneered with 600 talents (something over twenty-two tons) of gold.

9 The gold nails weighed fifty shekels (a little over a pound). The upper rooms were also veneered in gold.