World English Bible
2 Chronicles 3:5
“The greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.”
Verse in context — 2 Chronicles 3
Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
The porch that was before [the house], its length, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
The greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.
He garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and its walls, and its doors, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.
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Solomon’s reign and Judah’s history until the Babylonian exile.
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