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2 Chronicles 3:4-6
Evangelical Heritage Version
2 Chronicles 3:4-6
Evangelical Heritage Version
4 The porch[a] that was in front of the temple building was thirty feet wide, the same as the width of the building, and it was thirty feet high.[b]
He overlaid the inside with pure gold. 5 He lined the larger front room of the building with fir paneling,[c] which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains. 6 He beautified the house with dazzling precious stones. The gold was gold of Parvaim.[d]
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- 2 Chronicles 3:4 Or entry hall. It is uncertain if this was an unroofed porch or an enclosed vestibule.
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 The Hebrew text reads one hundred twenty cubits (one hundred eighty feet), but the Greek and Syriac texts and the data concerning the height of the pillars for the porch all support a height of twenty cubits (thirty feet). Perhaps the Hebrew word amwt (cubit) was accidentally changed into the word mawt (hundred) by the inversion of two letters. The account in Kings does not give the height of the porch.
- 2 Chronicles 3:5 According to 1 Kings 6:15, the floor was fir and the walls were cedar. This verse in Chronicles does not mention this distinction.
- 2 Chronicles 3:6 The meaning or location of the Hebrew term Parvaim is unknown.
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