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.
2 Chronicles 3:5 in other translations
| BSB | He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains. |
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| WEB | 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. |
| ASV | And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm-trees and chains. |
| YLT | 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, |
| DARBY | And the greater house he boarded with cypress-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set on it palm-trees and chains. |
| BBE | And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains. |
| Webster | And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set on it palm trees and chains. |
What does 2 Chronicles 3:5 mean?
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
2 Chronicles 3:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 3:5
- 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. And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.
- 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. And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place. And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
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1Ki 6:15-17,21,22
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Context
- 2 Chronicles 3:4
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.
- 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.
- 2 Chronicles 3:6
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
2 Chronicles 3:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y techó la casa mayor con madera de haya, la cual cubrió de buen oro, é hizo resaltar sobre ella palmas y cadenas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et la grande maison, il la revêtit de bois de cyprès; et il la revêtit d’or fin, et il y fit des palmiers et des chaînes. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und das große Haus bekleidete er mit Cypressenholz, und bekleidete es mit gutem Golde; und er brachte Palmen und Ketten darauf an. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Domum quoque majorem texit tabulis ligneis abiegnis, et laminas auri obrizi affixit per totum: sculpsitque in ea palmas, et quasi catenulas se invicem complectentes. |