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The Temple’s Interior

2 Chronicles 3:5

In 11 translations

BSB
He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.Or pine or juniper or fir
KJV
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
WEB
He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.
ASV
And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm-trees and chains.
LSV
And he has covered the large house with fir-trees, and he covers it with fine gold, and causes palms and chains to ascend on it,
YLT
And the large house he hath covered with fir-trees, and he doth cover it with good gold, and causeth to ascend on it palms and chains,
DBY
And the greater house he boarded with cypress-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set on it palm-trees and chains.
DRC
And the greater house he ceiled with deal boards, and overlaid them with plates of fine gold throughout: and he graved in them palm trees, and like little chains interlaced with one another.
GNV
And the greater house he sieled with firre tree which he ouerlayd with good golde, and graued thereon palme trees and chaines.
JPS
And the greater house he covered with cypress-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm-trees and chains.
LXXE
And he lined the great house with cedar wood, and gilded it with pure gold, and carved upon it palm-trees and chains.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְאֵ֣ת ׀ הַבַּ֣יִת הַגָּד֗וֹל חִפָּה֙ עֵ֣ץ בְּרוֹשִׁ֔ים וַיְחַפֵּ֖הוּ זָהָ֣ב ט֑וֹב וַיַּ֧עַל עָלָ֛יו תִּמֹרִ֖ים וְשַׁרְשְׁרֽוֹת׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ τὸν οἶκον τὸν μέγαν ἐξύλωσε ξύλοις κεδρίνοις, καὶ κατεχρύσωσε χρυσίῳ καθαρῷ, καὶ ἔγλυψεν ἐπʼ αὐτοῦ φοίνικας καὶ χαλαστά.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Kings 6:15–17He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards. He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar…
  • 1 Kings 6:21–22So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold. So he overlaid with gold the whole interior of the temple,…

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