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Myles Coverdale Bible

2 Chronicles 3:6

and ouerlayed the house with precious stones to beutifye it. As for the golde, it was golde of Paruaim.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gold;   Parvaim;   Temple;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Gold;   Precious Stones;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gold;   Parvaim;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Garnish;   House;   Parvaim;   Stones, Precious;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Metals;   Parvaim;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Parvaim;   Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Precious;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Parvaim ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gold;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Parva'im;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Gold;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Garnish;   Parvaim;   Precious;   Temple;   Uphaz;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gems;   Gold;   Metals;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was the gold of Parvaim.
Hebrew Names Version
He garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvayim.
King James Version
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
English Standard Version
He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold of Parvaim.
New Century Version
He decorated the Temple with gems and gold from Parvaim.
New English Translation
He decorated the temple with precious stones; the gold he used came from Parvaim.
Amplified Bible
And he adorned the house with precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.
New American Standard Bible
Further, he overlaid the house with precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.
World English Bible
He garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And hee ouerlayde the house with precious stone for beautie: and the golde was gold of Paruaim.
Legacy Standard Bible
Further, he overlaid the house with precious stones for beauty; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.
Berean Standard Bible
He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim.
Contemporary English Version
He used precious stones to decorate the temple, and he used gold imported from Parvaim
Complete Jewish Bible
He also decorated the building with precious stones and gold from Parvayim,
Darby Translation
And he overlaid the house with precious stones for beauty; and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
Easy-to-Read Version
He put valuable stones in the Temple for beauty. The gold he used was gold from Parvaim.
George Lamsa Translation
And he adorned the house with precious stones for beauty; and he overlaid all of it with fine gold.
Good News Translation
The king decorated the Temple with beautiful precious stones and with gold imported from the land of Parvaim.
Lexham English Bible
Then he overlaid the house with precious stone as decoration. (Now the gold was the gold of Parvaim.)
Literal Translation
And he overlaid the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was gold from Parvaim.
American Standard Version
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
Bible in Basic English
And the house was made beautiful with stones of great value, and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he ouerlayed the house with precious stone beautyfully: And the golde was golde of Paruaim.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty; and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
King James Version (1611)
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beautie, and the gold was gold of Paruaim.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty; and he gilded it with gold of the gold from Pharuim.
English Revised Version
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he arayede the pawment of the temple with most preciouse marble, in myche fairenesse.
Update Bible Version
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold [was] gold of Parvaim.
New King James Version
And he decorated the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was gold from Parvaim.
New Living Translation
He decorated the walls of the Temple with beautiful jewels and with gold from the land of Parvaim.
New Life Bible
He put stones of much worth on the house for beauty. And the gold was from Parvaim.
New Revised Standard
He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold from Parvaim.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he covered the house with precious stones, for beauty, - and, the gold, was gold of Parvaim.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble, of great beauty.
Revised Standard Version
He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold of Parva'im.
Young's Literal Translation
and he overlayeth the house with precious stone for beauty, and the gold [is] gold of Parvaim,
THE MESSAGE
So Solomon broke ground, launched construction of the house of God in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, the place where God had appeared to his father David. The precise site, the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, had been designated by David. He broke ground on the second day in the second month of the fourth year of his rule. These are the dimensions that Solomon set for the construction of the house of God: ninety feet long and thirty feet wide. The porch in front stretched the width of the building, that is, thirty feet; and it was thirty feet high. The interior was gold-plated. He paneled the main hall with cypress and veneered it with fine gold engraved with palm tree and chain designs. He decorated the building with precious stones and gold from Parvaim. Everything was coated with gold veneer: rafters, doorframes, walls, and doors. Cherubim were engraved on the walls. He made the Holy of Holies a cube, thirty feet wide, long, and high. It was veneered with six hundred talents (something over twenty-two tons) of gold. The gold nails weighed fifty shekels (a little over a pound). The upper rooms were also veneered in gold. 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. He fashioned the curtain of violet, purple, and crimson fabric and worked a cherub design into it. He made two huge free-standing pillars, each fifty-two feet tall, their capitals extending another seven and a half feet. The top of each pillar was set off with an elaborate filigree of chains, like necklaces, from which hung a hundred pomegranates. He placed the pillars in front of The Temple, one on the right, and the other on the left. The right pillar he named Jakin (Security) and the left pillar he named Boaz (Stability).
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Further, he adorned the house with precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.

Contextual Overview

1 And Salomon beganne to buylde the house of the LORDE at Ierusalem vpon the mount Moria, that was shewed vnto Dauid his father, which Dauid had prepared for the rowme, vpon the corne floore of Arnan the Iebusite. 2 In the seconde daye of the seconde moneth in the fourth yeare of his reigne begane he to buylde. 3 And so layed Salomon the foundacion to buylde the house of God: first the length thre score cubytes, the bredth twentye cubites 4 and the Porche before the wydenes of the house, was twentye cubites longe, but the height was an hundreth and twentye, and he ouerlayed it on the ynsyde with pure golde. 5 But the greate house syled he with Pyne tre, and ouerlayed it with the best golde, and made palme trees and throwne worke theron, 6 and ouerlayed the house with precious stones to beutifye it. As for the golde, it was golde of Paruaim. 7 And the balkes and postes aboue, and the walles, and the dores of it ouerlayed he with golde, and caused Cherubins to be carued on the walles. 8 He made also the house of the Most holy, whose length was twentye cubites acordinge to the wydenesse of the house: and the bredth of it was twentye cubites likewyse, and he ouerlayed it with the best golde by sixe hundreth talentes. 9 And for nales he gaue fiftye Sicles of golde in weight, and ouerlayed the chambers with golde.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

garnished: Heb. covered

precious: 1 Chronicles 29:2, 1 Chronicles 29:8, Isaiah 54:11, Isaiah 54:12, Revelation 21:18-21

Parvaim: Parvaim is supposed by Calmet to be the same as Sepharvaim in Armenia or Media; Bochart is of opinion that it is Taprobanes, now the island of Ceylon, which he drives from taph, a border, and Parvan, i.e., "the coast of Parvan;" but the late Editor of Calmet thinks it the same as the Parvatoi mountains of Ptolemy, at the head of the Indus.

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Bvt the serpent was sotyller then all the beastes of the felde (which ye LORDE God had made) and sayde vnto the woman: Yee, hath God sayde indede: Ye shall not eate of all maner trees in the garden?
Genesis 3:2
Then sayde the woman vnto the serpent: We eate of the frute of the trees in the garden:
Genesis 3:12
Then sayde Adam: The woman which thou gauest me (to beare me company) gaue me of the tre, and I ate.
Genesis 3:14
Then sayde the LORDE God vnto the serpent: Because thou hast done this, cursed be thou aboue all catell and aboue all beastes of the felde. Vpon thy bely shalt thou go, & earth shalt thou eate all the dayes of thy life.
Genesis 3:15
And I wyll put enemyte betwene the and the woman, and betwene yi sede and hir sede. The same shal treade downe thy heade, and thou shalt treade him on the hele.
Genesis 3:17
And vnto Adam he sayde: For so moch as thou hast herkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, and hast eaten of the tre, wherof I commaunded the, sayenge: thou shalt not eate of it. Cursed be ye earth for thy sake. With sorowe shalt thou eate therof, all the dayes of thy life.
Genesis 3:19
In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate thy bred, tyll thou be turned agayne vnto earth, whece thou art take: for earth thou art, and vnto earth shalt thou be turned agayne.
Genesis 6:2
the children of God sawe the doughters of men, that they were fayre, and toke vnto the wyues soch as they liked.
Genesis 39:7
And it fortuned after these actes, that his masters wife cast hir eyes vpon Ioseph, and sayde: Slepe with me.
Joshua 7:21
I sawe amoge ye spoiles a costly Babilonish garment, and two hudreth Sycles of syluer and a tunge of golde, worth fiftye Sycles in weight, vnto the which I had a lust, and toke it: and beholde, it is hyd in the grounde in my tente, and the syluer vnder it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Precious stones for beauty - Not marbles but gems (compare 1 Chronicles 29:2). The phrase translated “for beauty” means “for its beautification,” “to beautify it.”

Parvaim is probably the name of a place, but what is quite uncertain.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 3:6. Gold of Parvaim. — We know not what this place was; some think it is the same as Sepharvaim, a place in Armenia or Media, conquered by the king of Assyria, 2 Kings 17:24, c. Others, that it is Taprobane, now the island of Ceylon, which Bochart derives from taph, signifying the border, and Parvan, i.e., the coast of Parvan. The rabbins say that it was gold of a blood-red colour, and had its name from פרים parim, heifers, being like to bullocks' blood.

The Vulgate translates the passage thus: Stravit quoque pavimentum templi pretiosissimo marmore, decore multo porro aurum erat probatissimum; "And he made the pavement of the temple of the most precious marble; and moreover the gold was of the best quality," &c.


 
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