2 Chronicles 3:5

5 He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree and chain designs.

2 Chronicles 3:5 in Other Translations

5 And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

5 The nave he lined with cypress and covered it with fine gold and made palms and chains on it.

5 He paneled the main room of the Temple with cypress wood, overlaid it with fine gold, and decorated it with carvings of palm trees and chains.

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

5 And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm-trees and chains.

5 He paneled the larger building with cypress, overlaid it with fine gold, and decorated it with [designs in the form of] palm trees and chains.

5 The larger room he paneled with cypress wood, overlaid with fine gold, and decorated with palm trees and chains.

5 He covered the inside of the main hall with pine boards. Then he covered the boards with fine gold. He decorated the hall with palm tree patterns and chain patterns.

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 The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide (using the cubit of the old standard).

4 The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits long across the width of the building and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

5 He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree and chain designs.

6 He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim.

7 He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

Cross References

• 1. Ezekiel 40:16