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Contemporary English Version

2 Chronicles 3:9

More than a pound of gold was used to cover the heads of the nails. The walls of the small storage rooms were also covered with gold.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Nail;   Temple;   Thompson Chain Reference - Nails;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jehoiachin;   Nail;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ceiling;   Nail;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ceilings;   Nail;   Temple;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cherub, Cherubim;   Nail;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Solomon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Nails;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Chamber;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ceiling;   Temple;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Nail;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Nail;   Shekel;   Temple;   Upper Chamber;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Nail;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The weight of the nails was twenty ounces of gold, and he overlaid the ceiling with gold.
Hebrew Names Version
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
King James Version
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
English Standard Version
The weight of gold for the nails was fifty shekels. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
New Century Version
The gold nails weighed over a pound. He also covered the upper rooms with gold.
New English Translation
The gold nails weighed 50 shekels; he also plated the upper areas with gold.
Amplified Bible
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
New American Standard Bible
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
World English Bible
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the weight of the nayles was fiftie shekels of golde, and hee ouerlayde the chambers with golde.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also covered the upper rooms with gold.
Berean Standard Bible
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper area with gold.
Complete Jewish Bible
The weight of the nails was one-and-a-quarter pounds of gold, and he overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
Darby Translation
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he covered the upper chambers with gold.
Easy-to-Read Version
The gold nails weighed 1 1/4 pounds. He covered the upper rooms with gold.
George Lamsa Translation
And he also overlaid the altar with fine gold.
Good News Translation
twenty ounces of gold were used for making nails, and the walls of the upper rooms were also covered with gold.
Lexham English Bible
And the weight for the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid its upper rooms with gold.
Literal Translation
and the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold, and he covered the upper rooms with gold.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And for nales he gaue fiftye Sicles of golde in weight, and ouerlayed the chambers with golde.
American Standard Version
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
Bible in Basic English
And fifty shekels weight of gold was used for the nails. He had all the higher rooms plated with gold.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the wayght of the nayles of golde was fiftie sicles: and he ouerlayed the vpper chambers with golde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
King James Version (1611)
And the weight of the nailes was fiftie shekels of gold: and he ouerlaide the vpper chambers with gold.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the weight of the nails, even the weight of each was fifty shekels of gold: and he gilded the upper chamber with gold.
English Revised Version
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But also he made goldun nailis, so that ech nail peiside fifti siclis; and he hilide the solers with gold.
Update Bible Version
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
New King James Version
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold; and he overlaid the upper area with gold.
New Living Translation
The gold nails that were used weighed 20 ounces each. He also overlaid the walls of the upper rooms with gold.
New Life Bible
The nails weighed as much as fifty pieces of gold. He covered the rooms on the second floor with gold also.
New Revised Standard
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, the weight of the nails, amounted to fifty shekels of gold, - and, the upper chambers, covered he with gold.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty sicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.
Revised Standard Version
The weight of the nails was one shekel to fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
Young's Literal Translation
and the weight of the nails [is] fifty shekels of gold, and the upper chambers he hath covered with gold.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

Contextual Overview

1Solomon's workers began building the temple in Jerusalem on the second day of the second month, four years after Solomon had become king of Israel. It was built on Mount Moriah where the Lord had appeared to David at the threshing place that had belonged to Araunah from Jebus. 3 The inside of the temple was ninety feet long and thirty feet wide, according to the older standards. 4 Across the front of the temple was a porch thirty feet wide and thirty feet high. The inside walls of the porch were covered with pure gold. 5 Solomon had the inside walls of the temple's main room paneled first with pine and then with a layer of gold, and he had them decorated with carvings of palm trees and designs that looked like chains. 6 He used precious stones to decorate the temple, and he used gold imported from Parvaim 7 to decorate the ceiling beams, the doors, the door frames, and the walls. Solomon also had the workers carve designs of winged creatures into the walls. 8 The most holy place was thirty feet square, and its walls were covered with almost twenty-five tons of fine gold. 9 More than a pound of gold was used to cover the heads of the nails. The walls of the small storage rooms were also covered with gold.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Exodus 38:20 - the pins 1 Chronicles 28:11 - upper chambers Jeremiah 35:2 - into one Ezekiel 40:7 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
"It was the woman you put here with me," the man said. "She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it."
Genesis 3:13
The Lord God then asked the woman, "What have you done?" "The snake tricked me," she answered. "And I ate some of that fruit."
Genesis 3:17
The Lord said to the man, "You listened to your wife and ate fruit from that tree. And so, the ground will be under a curse because of what you did. As long as you live, you will have to struggle to grow enough food.
Genesis 3:19
You will have to sweat to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil."
Genesis 3:20
The man Adam named his wife Eve because she would become the mother of all who live.
Genesis 3:21
Then the Lord God made clothes out of animal skins for the man and his wife.
Genesis 4:9
Afterwards the Lord asked Cain, "Where is Abel?" "How should I know?" he answered. "Am I supposed to look after my brother?"
Genesis 11:5
But when the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower,
Genesis 16:8
and asked, "Hagar, where have you come from, and where are you going?" She answered, "I'm running away from Sarai, my owner."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The upper chambers - Compare 1 Chronicles 28:11. Their position is uncertain. Some place them above the holy of holies, which was ten cubits, or fifteen feet lower than the main building (compare 1 Kings 6:2, 1 Kings 6:20); others, accepting the height of the porch 120 cubits 2 Chronicles 3:4, regard the “upper chambers” or “chamber” ὑπερῷον huperōon, Septuagint), as having been a lofty building erected over the entrance to the temple; others suggest that the chambers intended are simply the uppermost of the three sets of chambers which on three sides surrounded the temple (see 1 Kings 6:5-10). This would seem to be the simplest and best explanation, though we cannot see any reason for the rich ornamentation of these apartments, or for David’s special directions concerning them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 3:9. The weight of the nails was fifty shekelsBolts must be here intended, as it should be preposterous to suppose nails of nearly two pounds' weight.

The supper chambers — Probably the ceiling is meant.


 
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