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2 Chronicles 3:5
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.
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2 Chronicles 3:5 in other translations
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.
The greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.
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In context
2 He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
3 Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of God’s house: the length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.
4 The porch that was in front, its length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
5 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.
6 He decorated the house with precious stones for beauty. The gold was gold from Parvaim.
7 He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold, and engraved cherubim on the walls.
8 He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
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