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The Darby Translation

2 Chronicles 3:9

And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he covered the upper chambers 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.
Contemporary English Version
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
The weight of the nails was one-and-a-quarter pounds of gold, and he overlaid the upper rooms 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

1 And Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where he appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2 And he began to build on the second of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. 3 And this was Solomon's foundation for the construction of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. 4 And the porch which was in front was twenty cubits in length, in front of the house broadways, and the height was a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold. 5 And the greater house he boarded with cypress-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set on it palm-trees and chains. 6 And he overlaid the house with precious stones for beauty; and the gold was gold of Parvaim. 7 And he covered the house, the beams, the threshold, and its walls, and its doors with gold, and engraved cherubim on the walls. 8 And he made the house of the most holy place, the length of which was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits; and he covered it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. 9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he covered the upper chambers 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
And Man said, The woman, whom thou hast given [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.
Genesis 3:13
And Jehovah Elohim said to the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.
Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.
Genesis 3:20
And Man called his wife's name Eve; because she is the mother of all living.
Genesis 3:21
And Jehovah Elohim made Adam and his wife coats of skin, and clothed them.
Genesis 4:9
And Jehovah said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper?
Genesis 11:5
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.
Genesis 16:8
And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maidservant, whence comest thou? and whither art thou going? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.

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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