2 Chronicles 3:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

2 Chronicles 3:5 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 6:15-17
And 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 6:21-22
So 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. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Here is, I. The place where the temple was built. Solomon was neither at liberty to choose nor at a loss to fix the place. It was before determined (1 Chron. 22:1), which was an ease to his mind. 1. It must be at Jerusalem; for that was the place where God had chosen to put his name there. The royal city must be the holy city. There must be the testimony of Israel; for there are set the thrones of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. the greater house--that is, the holy places, the front or outer chamber (see 1Ki 6:17).