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Geneva Bible

2 Chronicles 3:14

He made also the vaile of blew silke & purple, and crimosin, and fine linen, and wrought Cherubims thereon.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cherubim;   Colors;   Temple;   Types;   Vail;   Thompson Chain Reference - Blue;   Crimson;   Vail;   Veil;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Cherubim;   Temple, the First;   Types of Christ;   Vail, the Sacred;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Crimson;   Linen;   Purple;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Linen;   Temple, Solomon's;   Veil, Vail;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Linen;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Blue;   Cherub, Cherubim;   Crimson;   Dyeing;   Insects;   Veil;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Old Testament (Ii. Christ as Student and Interpreter of).;   Veil;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Crimson;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Crete;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cherubim (1);   Color;   Fine;   Linen;   Purple;   Temple;   Veil (2);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cherub;   Color;   Holy of Holies;   Linen;   Temple of Solomon;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He made the curtain of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, and he wove cherubim into it.
Hebrew Names Version
He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and worked Keruvim thereon.
King James Version
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
English Standard Version
And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and he worked cherubim on it.
New Century Version
He made the curtain of blue, purple, and red thread, and expensive linen, and he put designs of creatures with wings in it.
New English Translation
He made the curtain out of violet, purple, crimson, and white fabrics, and embroidered on it decorative cherubim.
Amplified Bible
He made the veil [between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies] of blue, purple, and crimson colors, and fine linen, and embroidered cherubim on it.
New American Standard Bible
He made the veil of violet, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and he worked cherubim into it.
World English Bible
He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and worked cherubim thereon.
Legacy Standard Bible
And he made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and he ornamented cherubim on it.
Berean Standard Bible
He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.
Contemporary English Version
A curtain was made of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool, and embroidered with designs of winged creatures.
Complete Jewish Bible
He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson material and of fine linen, with a design of k'ruvim worked into it.
Darby Translation
And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and byssus, and made cherubim upon it.
Easy-to-Read Version
He made the curtain from blue, purple, and red materials and expensive linen. There were Cherub angels on the curtain.
George Lamsa Translation
And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson and fine linen, and wrought cherubim on it, and placed the ark in it.
Good News Translation
A curtain for the Most Holy Place was made of linen and of other material, which was dyed blue, purple, and red, with designs of the winged creatures worked into it.
Lexham English Bible
And he made the curtain of blue and purple and crimson and fine linen, and put cherubim on it.
Literal Translation
And he made the veil of violet, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and caused to go on it cherubs.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He made a vayle also of yalow sylke, scarlet, purple and lynworke, and made Cherubins theron.
American Standard Version
And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.
Bible in Basic English
And he made the veil of blue and purple and red, of the best linen, worked with winged ones.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he made a fore hanging of yelow silke, purple, crymosin, and fine white, & caused the pictures of Cherubs to be brodred theron.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.
King James Version (1611)
And he made the vaile of blue and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought Cherubims thereon.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and wove cherubs in it.
English Revised Version
And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also he made a veil of iacynct and purpur, of reed seelk and bijs; and weuyde cherubyns therynne.
Update Bible Version
And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he made the vail [of] blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim upon it.
New King James Version
And he made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and wove cherubim into it.
New Living Translation
Across the entrance of the Most Holy Place he hung a curtain made of fine linen, decorated with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and embroidered with figures of cherubim.
New Life Bible
He made the curtain of blue, purple and red cloth and fine linen. And he worked cherubim on it.
New Revised Standard
And Solomon made the curtain of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and worked cherubim into it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he made a vail, of blue and purple, and crimson and byssus cloth, - and raised thereon cherubim.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk: and wrought in it cherubims.
Revised Standard Version
And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and worked cherubim on it.
Young's Literal Translation
And he maketh the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and causeth cherubs to go up on it.
THE MESSAGE
He fashioned the curtain of violet, purple, and crimson fabric and worked a cherub design into it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He made the veil of violet, purple, crimson and fine linen, and he worked cherubim on it.

Contextual Overview

10 And in the house of the most holy place he made two Cherubims wrought like children, and ouerlayd them with golde. 11 And the winges of the Cherubims were twentie cubites long: the one wing was fiue cubites, reaching to the wall of the house, and the other wing fiue cubites, reaching to the wing of the other Cherub. 12 Likewise the wing of ye other Cherub was fiue cubites, reaching to the wall of the house, & the other wing fiue cubites ioyning to the wing of the other Cherub. 13 The wings of these Cherubims were spread abroade twentie cubites: they stoode on their feete, and their faces were toward the house. 14 He made also the vaile of blew silke & purple, and crimosin, and fine linen, and wrought Cherubims thereon. 15 And he made before the house two pillars of fiue and thirtie cubites hie: and the chapiter that was vpon the top of eche of them, was fiue cubites. 16 He made also chaines for the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars, and made an hundreth pomegranates, and put them among the chaines. 17 And he set vp the pillars before the Temple, one on the right hande and the other on the left, and called that on the right hand Iachin, & that on the left hand Boaz.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the veil: Exodus 26:31-35, Matthew 27:51, Hebrews 9:3, Hebrews 10:20

wrought: Heb. caused to ascend

Reciprocal: Exodus 38:18 - needlework 1 Kings 6:21 - by the chains 1 Kings 6:29 - carved figures Luke 23:45 - and the veil

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Nowe the serpent was more subtill then any beast of the fielde, which the Lord God had made: and he said to the woman, Yea, hath God in deede said, Ye shall not eate of euery tree of the garden?
Genesis 3:15
I wil also put enimitie betweene thee and the woman, and betweene thy seede & her seede. He shall breake thine head, and thou shalt bruise his heele.
Genesis 3:20
(And the man called his wiues name Heuah, because she was the mother of all liuing)
Genesis 9:6
Who so sheadeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God hath he made man.
Leviticus 20:25
Therefore shall ye put difference betweene cleane beastes and vncleane, & betweene vncleane foules and cleane: neither shall ye defile your selues with beastes and foules, nor with any creeping thing, that ye ground bringeth forth, which I haue separated from you as vncleane.
Psalms 72:9
They that dwell in ye wildernes, shall kneele before him, and his enemies shall licke the dust.
Isaiah 29:4
So shalt thou be humbled, and shalt speake out of the ground, and thy speach shalbe as out of the dust: thy voyce also shall be out of the ground like him that hath a spirite of diuination, and thy talking shall whisper out of the dust.
Isaiah 65:25
The wolfe and the lambe shall feede together, and the lyon shall eate strawe like the bullocke: and to the serpent dust shall be his meate. They shall no more hurt nor destroy in all mine holy Mountaine, saith the Lord.
Micah 7:17
They shall licke the dust like a serpent: they shall mooue out of their holes like wormes: they shalbe afraide of the Lord our God, & shall feare because of thee.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is an important addition to the description in Kings, where the veil is not mentioned. It was made of exactly the same colors as the veil of the tabernacle Exodus 26:31.


 
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