◄ 2 Chronicles 3:6 ►
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Good News Translation
The king decorated the Temple with beautiful precious stones and with gold imported from the land of Parvaim.

New Revised Standard Version
He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold from Parvaim.

Contemporary English Version
He used precious stones to decorate the temple, and he used gold imported from Parvaim

New American Bible
He also covered the house with precious stones for splendor; the gold was from Parvaim.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble, of great beauty.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble, of great beauty.

garnished [heb] covered

1 Chronicles 29:2,8 And I with all my ability have prepared the expenses for the house of my God. Gold for vessels of gold, and silver for vessels of silver, brass for things of brass, iron for things of iron, wood for things of wood: and onyx stones, and stones like alabaster, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble of Paros in great abundance. . . .

Isaiah 54:11,12 O poor little one, tossed with tempest, without all comfort, behold I will lay thy stones in order, and will lay thy foundations with sapphires, . . .

Revelation 21:18-21 And the building of the wall thereof was of jasper stone: but the city itself pure gold like to clear glass. . . .

Context
The Temple's Interior
5And 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. 6He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble, of great beauty.7And the gold of the plates with which he overlaid the house, and the beams thereof, and the posts, and the walls, and the doors was of the finest: and he graved cherubims on the walls.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 3:5
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.

2 Chronicles 3:7
And the gold of the plates with which he overlaid the house, and the beams thereof, and the posts, and the walls, and the doors was of the finest: and he graved cherubims on the walls.

2 Chronicles 3:5
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