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New King James Version

2 Chronicles 3:9

The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold; and he overlaid the upper area 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.
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 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 Now Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord [fn] had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan 2 Samuel 24:16ff">[fn] the Jebusite. 2 And he began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. 3 This is the foundation which Solomon laid for building the house of God: The length was sixty cubits (by cubits according to the former measure) and the width twenty cubits. 4 And the vestibule that was in front of the sanctuary 1 Kings 6:3)">[fn] was twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and the height was one hundred and [fn] twenty. He overlaid the inside with pure gold. 5 The larger room [fn] he paneled with cypress which he overlaid with fine gold, and he carved palm trees and chainwork on it. 6 And he decorated the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was gold from Parvaim. 7 He also overlaid the house--the beams and doorposts, its walls and doors--with gold; and he carved cherubim on the walls. 8 And he made the Most Holy Place. Its length was according to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits. He overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold. 9 The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold; and he overlaid the upper area 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
Then the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
Genesis 3:13
And the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Genesis 3:17
Then to Adam He said, "Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, "You shall not eat of it': "Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return."
Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
Genesis 3:21
Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.
Genesis 4:9
Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
Genesis 11:5
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
Genesis 16:8
And He said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, where have you come from, and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the presence 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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