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2 Chronicles 3:14

He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk: and wrought in it cherubims.

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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He made also the vaile of blew silke & purple, and crimosin, and fine linen, and wrought Cherubims 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.
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 He made also in the house of the holy of holies two cherubims of image work: and he overlaid them with gold. 11 The wings of the cherubims were extended twenty cubits, so that one wing was five cubits long, and reached to the wall of the house: and the other was also five cubits long, and reached to the wing of the other cherub. 12 In like manner the wing of the other cherub, was five cubits long, and reached to the wall: and his other wing was five cubits long, and touched the wing of the other cherub. 13 So the wings of the two cherubims were spread forth, and were extended twenty cubits: and they stood upright on their feet, and their faces were turned toward the house without. 14 He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk: and wrought in it cherubims. 15 He made also before the doors of the temple two pillars, which were five and thirty cubits high: and their chapiters were five cubits. 16 He made also as it were little chains in the oracle, and he put them on the heads of the pillars: and a hundred pomegranates, which he put between the little chains. 17 These pillars he put at the entrance of the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left: that which was on the right hand, he called Jachin: and that on the left hand, Booz.

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
Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?
Genesis 3:15
I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.
Genesis 3:20
And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.
Genesis 9:6
Whosoever shall shed man’s blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.
Leviticus 20:25
Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean. Defile not your souls with beasts, or birds, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shewn you to be unclean:
Psalms 72:9
(71-9) Before him the Ethiopians shall fall down: and his enemies shall lick the ground.
Isaiah 29:4
Thou shalt be brought down, thou shall speak out of the earth, and thy speech shall be heard out of the ground: and thy voice shall be from the earth like that of the python, and out of the earth thy speech shall mutter.
Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion and the ox shall eat straw; and dust shall be the serpent’s food: they shall not hurt nor kill in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
Micah 7:17
They shall lick the dust like serpents, as the creeping things of the earth, they shall be disturbed in their houses: they shall dread the Lord, our God, and shall fear 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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