2 Chronicles 3:4-6
New English Translation
4 The porch in front of the main hall was 30 feet long, corresponding to the width of the temple,[a] and its height was 30 feet.[b] He plated the inside with pure gold. 5 He paneled[c] the main hall[d] with boards made from evergreen trees[e] and plated it with fine gold, decorated with palm trees and chains.[f] 6 He decorated the temple with precious stones; the gold he used came from Parvaim.[g]
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- 2 Chronicles 3:4 tc Heb “and the porch which was in front of the length corresponding to the width of the house, 20 cubits.” The phrase הֵיכַל הַבַּיִת (hekhal habbayit, “the main hall of the temple,” which appears in the parallel account in 1 Kgs 6:3) has been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton after עַל־פְּנֵי (’al pene, “in front of”). Note that the following form, הָאֹרֶךְ (haʿorekh, “the length”), also begins with the Hebrew letter he (ה). A scribe’s eye probably jumped from the initial he on הֵיכַל to the initial he on הָאֹרֶךְ, leaving out the intervening letters in the process.
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 tc The Hebrew text has “one hundred and 20 cubits,” i.e., (assuming a cubit of 18 inches) 180 feet (54 m). An ancient Greek witness and the Syriac version read “20 cubits,” i.e., 30 feet (9 m). It is likely that מֵאָה (meʾah, “a hundred”) should be emended to אַמּוֹת (ʾammot, “cubits”).
- 2 Chronicles 3:5 tn Heb “covered.”
- 2 Chronicles 3:5 tn Heb “the large house.”
- 2 Chronicles 3:5 tn Heb “wood of evergreens.”
- 2 Chronicles 3:5 tn Heb “and he put up on it palm trees and chains.”
- 2 Chronicles 3:6 tn Heb “and he plated the house [with] precious stone for beauty, and the gold was the gold of Parvaim.”sn The location of Parvaim, the source of the gold for Solomon’s temple, is uncertain. Some have identified it with modern Farwa in Yemen; others relate it to the Sanskrit parvam and understand it to be a general term for the regions east of Israel.
2 Chronicles 3:4-6
New International Version
4 The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits[a] long across the width of the building and twenty[b] cubits high.
He overlaid the inside with pure gold. 5 He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree(A) and chain designs. 6 He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim.
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 That is, about 30 feet or about 9 meters; also in verses 8, 11 and 13
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 Some Septuagint and Syriac manuscripts; Hebrew and a hundred and twenty
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