The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits[a] long across the width of the building and twenty[b] cubits high.

He overlaid the inside with pure gold. He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree(A) and chain designs. He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim. He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim(B) on the walls.

He built the Most Holy Place,(C) its length corresponding to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talents[c] of fine gold. The gold nails(D) weighed fifty shekels.[d] He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.

10 For the Most Holy Place he made a pair(E) of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:4 That is, about 30 feet or about 9 meters; also in verses 8, 11 and 13
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:4 Some Septuagint and Syriac manuscripts; Hebrew and a hundred and twenty
  3. 2 Chronicles 3:8 That is, about 23 tons or about 21 metric tons
  4. 2 Chronicles 3:9 That is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams

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