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Good News Translation

2 Chronicles 3:10

The king also had his workers make two winged creatures out of metal, cover them with gold, and place them in the Most Holy Place,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cherubim;   Temple;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Gold;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jehoiachin;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Ezekiel, Theology of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cherub, Cherubim;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Azariah;   Chronicles, I;   Solomon;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Cherub;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cherubim (1);   Holy of Holies;   Temple;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cherub;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He made two cherubim of sculptured work, for the most holy place, and he overlaid them with gold.
Hebrew Names Version
In the most holy house he made two Keruvim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.
King James Version
And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.
English Standard Version
In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of wood and overlaid them with gold.
New Century Version
He made two creatures with wings for the Most Holy Place and covered them with gold.
New English Translation
In the most holy place he made two images of cherubim and plated them with gold.
Amplified Bible
And in the Holy of Holies he made two sculptured cherubim, and overlaid them with gold.
New American Standard Bible
Then he made two sculptured cherubim in the room of the Most Holy Place and overlaid them with gold.
World English Bible
In the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And in the house of the most holy place he made two Cherubims wrought like children, and ouerlayd them with golde.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then in the room of the Holy of Holies he made two cherubim of fashioned work and overlaid them with gold.
Berean Standard Bible
In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of sculptured work, and he overlaid them with gold.
Contemporary English Version
Solomon had two statues of winged creatures made to put in the most holy place, and he covered them with gold.
Complete Jewish Bible
Inside the Especially Holy Place he made two k'ruvim of cast metal, and they overlaid them with gold.
Darby Translation
And in the house of the most holy place he made two cherubim of image work, and they overlaid them with gold.
Easy-to-Read Version
He made two Cherub angels to put in the Most Holy Place. The workers covered the Cherub angels with gold.
George Lamsa Translation
In the most holy house he made two cherubim of solid material, and overlaid them with gold.
Lexham English Bible
And he made two sculpted wood cherubim in the most holy place, and he overlaid them with gold.
Literal Translation
And in the Most Holy House he made two cherubs of image work, and he overlaid them with gold.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He made also in the house of the most holy, two Cherubins of carued worke, and ouerlayed them with golde:
American Standard Version
And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.
Bible in Basic English
And in the most holy place he made images of two winged beings, covering them with gold.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And in the house most holy he made two Cherubims of image worke, like children, and ouerlayed them with gold.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And in the most holy place he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.
King James Version (1611)
And in the most holy place hee made two Cherubims of image work, and ouerlaid them with gold.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he made two cherubs in the most holy house, wood-work, and he gilded them with gold.
English Revised Version
And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also he made in the hows of the hooli of hooli thingis twei cherubyns bi the werk of an ymage makere, and hilide hem with gold.
Update Bible Version
And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of molten work; and they overlaid them with gold.
Webster's Bible Translation
And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work, and overlaid them with gold.
New King James Version
In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim, fashioned by carving, and overlaid them with gold.
New Living Translation
He made two figures shaped like cherubim, overlaid them with gold, and placed them in the Most Holy Place.
New Life Bible
Then he made two cherubim of wood in the most holy place, and covered them with gold.
New Revised Standard
In the most holy place he made two carved cherubim and overlaid them with gold.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he made, in the most holy house, two cherubim, of carved work, - and covered them with gold.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He made also in the house of the holy of holies two cherubims of image work: and he overlaid them with gold.
Revised Standard Version
In the most holy place he made two cherubim of wood and overlaid them with gold.
Young's Literal Translation
And he maketh in the most holy house two cherubs, image work, and he overlayeth them with gold;
THE MESSAGE
He made two sculptures of cherubim, gigantic angel-like figures, for the Holy of Holies, both veneered with gold. The combined wingspread of the side-by-side cherubim (each wing measuring seven and a half feet) stretched from wall to wall, thirty feet. They stood erect facing the main hall.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then he made two sculptured cherubim in the room of the holy of holies and overlaid them with gold.

Contextual Overview

10 The king also had his workers make two winged creatures out of metal, cover them with gold, and place them in the Most Holy Place, 11where they stood side by side facing the entrance. Each had two wings, each wing 7½ feet long, which were spread out so that they touched each other in the center of the room and reached to the wall on either side of the room, stretching across the full width of 30 feet. 14 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. 15 The king had two columns made, each one 52 feet tall, and placed them in front of the Temple. Each one had a capital 7½ feet tall. 16 The tops of the columns were decorated with a design of interwoven chains and one hundred bronze pomegranates. 17 The columns were set at the sides of the Temple entrance: the one on the south side was named Jachin and the one on the north side was named Boaz.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

two cherubims: 1 Kings 6:23-28

image work: or, as some think, of movable work

Reciprocal: Exodus 25:20 - cherubims shall Exodus 36:8 - cherubims

Cross-References

Genesis 2:25
The man and the woman were both naked, but they were not embarrassed.
Genesis 3:7
As soon as they had eaten it, they were given understanding and realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and covered themselves.
Genesis 3:17
And he said to the man, "You listened to your wife and ate the fruit which I told you not to eat. Because of what you have done, the ground will be under a curse. You will have to work hard all your life to make it produce enough food for you.
Genesis 3:18
It will produce weeds and thorns, and you will have to eat wild plants.
Exodus 3:6
I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." So Moses covered his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
Exodus 32:25
Moses saw that Aaron had let the people get out of control and make fools of themselves in front of their enemies.
Job 23:15
I tremble with fear before him.
Psalms 119:120
Because of you I am afraid; I am filled with fear because of your judgments.
Isaiah 33:14
The sinful people of Zion are trembling with fright. They say, "God's judgment is like a fire that burns forever. Can any of us survive a fire like that?"
Isaiah 47:3
People will see you naked; they will see you humbled and shamed. I will take vengeance, and no one will stop me."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The word translated “image work,” or, in the margin, “moveable work,” occurs only in this passage, and has not even a Hebrew derivation. Modern Hebraists find an Arabic derivation, and explain the word to mean “carved work.”


 
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