KJV King James Version
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
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2 Chronicles 3:5
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.
WEB World English Bible
The greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.
ASV American Standard Version
And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm-trees and chains.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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,
Surrounding context — 2 Chronicles 3
2 And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
3 Now these [are the things wherein] Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
4 And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house], the length [of it was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height [was] an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
5 And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
6 And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold [was] gold of Parvaim.
7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.
8 And he made the most holy house, the length whereof [was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, [amounting] to six hundred talents.
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וְאֵ֣ת׀H853 · et[Obj.]הַבַּ֣יִתH1004 · betplaceהַגָּד֗וֹלH1419 · ga.dolgreat: largeחִפָּה֙H2645 · cha.phahto coverעֵ֣ץH6086 · etstree: woodבְּרוֹשִׁ֔יםH1265 · be.roshcypressוַיְחַפֵּ֖הוּH2645 · cha.phahto coverזָהָ֣בH2091 · za.havgoldט֑וֹבH2896 · tovpleasantוַיַּ֧עַלH5927 · a.lahto ascend: riseעָלָ֛יוH5921 · aluponתִּמֹרִ֖יםH8561 · tim.rahpalmוְשַׁרְשְׁרֽוֹת׃H8333 · shar.she.rahchain
Cross-references
1 Kings 6:15-17And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: [and] he covered [them] on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.1 Kings 6:21-22So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
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