2 Chronicles · 17 verses
2 Chronicles 3
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The Most Holy Place was overlaid with six hundred talents of fine gold, while two cherubim stood there with wings stretching twenty cubits.
The house begins on Moriahvv. 1–7
Solomon began building the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, at the place David had prepared on Ornan’s threshing floor. The foundation was sixty cubits by twenty, and the house quickly acquired cypress, gold, palm trees, chains, precious stones, and cherubim carved on its walls. The gold, being particular about its origins, came from Parvaim.
The golden inner roomvv. 8–14
Then came the Most Holy Place, twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, with six hundred talents of fine gold upon its interior. Solomon made two sculptured cherubim, overlaid them with gold, and arranged their wings so that the whole span was twenty cubits. They stood on their feet facing the main room, while the veil displayed blue, purple, and crimson yarn, fine linen, and woven cherubim.
Two pillars and a hundred pomegranatesvv. 15–17
At the front of the temple Solomon set two pillars, each with a five-cubit capital, and crowned them with interwoven chains. A hundred pomegranates were fastened into the chainwork, which is a perfectly respectable way for a building to acquire fruit. The southern pillar was called Jachin and the northern one Boaz.
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2 Chr 3:1Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chr 3:2Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
2 Chr 3:3The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.
2 Chr 3:4The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
2 Chr 3:5He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.
2 Chr 3:6He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim.
2 Chr 3:7He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.
2 Chr 3:8Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.
2 Chr 3:9The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
2 Chr 3:10In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of sculptured work, and he overlaid them with gold.
2 Chr 3:11The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the wall of the temple, and its other wing was five cubits long and touched the wing of the other cherub.
2 Chr 3:12The wing of the second cherub also measured five cubits and touched the wall of the temple, while its other wing measured five cubits and touched the wing of the first cherub.
2 Chr 3:13So the total wingspan of these cherubim was twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main room.
2 Chr 3:14He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.
2 Chr 3:15In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits.
2 Chr 3:16He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork.
2 Chr 3:17Then he set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south and one on the north. The pillar on the south he named Jachin, and the pillar on the north he named Boaz.
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- 11 Chronicles 21:18Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 1Genesis 22:14And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
- 8Exodus 26:33And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
- 11 Chronicles 22:1Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the LORD God, as well as the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
- 1Genesis 22:2“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
- 101 Kings 6:23–28In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.
- 11 Kings 6:1–14In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.
- 71 Kings 6:20–22The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
- 81 Kings 6:19–20Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
- 8Hebrews 9:3Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,
- 81 Kings 6:16He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
- 8Hebrews 9:9It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.
- 8Hebrews 10:19Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
- 13Exodus 25:20And the cherubim are to have wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the mercy seat.
- 161 Kings 7:20On the capitals of both pillars, just above the rounded projection next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates in rows encircling each capital.
- 12 Samuel 24:18–25And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
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