2 Chronicles 3:9

In 11 translations

BSB

The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper area with gold.50 shekels is approximately 1.26 pounds or 569.8 grams of gold.

KJV

And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

WEB

The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 50 shekels was about 0.5 kilograms or about 16 Troy ounces.

ASV

And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

LSV

and the weight of the nails [is] fifty shekels of gold, and he has covered the upper chambers with gold.

YLT

and the weight of the nails [is] fifty shekels of gold, and the upper chambers he hath covered with gold.

DBY

And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he covered the upper chambers with gold.

DRC

He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty sicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.

GNV

And the weight of the nayles was fiftie shekels of golde, and hee ouerlayde the chambers with golde.

JPS

And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

LXXE

And the weight of the nails, even the weight of each was fifty shekels of gold: and he gilded the upper chamber with gold.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וּמִשְׁקָ֛ל לְמִסְמְר֥וֹת לִשְׁקָלִ֖ים חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים זָהָ֑ב וְהָעֲלִיּ֖וֹת חִפָּ֥ה זָהָֽב׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ὁλκὴ τῶν ἥλων, ὁλκὴ τοῦ ἑνὸς πεντήκοντα σίκλοι χρυσίου, καὶ τὸ ὑπερῷον ἐχρύσωσε χρυσίῳ.

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Cross-references most cited first

• 1 Chronicles 28:11Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, storehouses, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the mercy seat.

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