2 Chronicles 3:6 KJV — MannaFest

2 Chronicles 3:6

And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

KJV

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ASV

And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

WEB

He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim.

YLT

and he overlayeth the house with precious stone for beauty, and the gold is gold of Parvaim,

DBT

And he overlaid the house with precious stones for beauty; and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

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2 Chronicles — Solomon to the exile — retold through the southern kings only. A priestly history that keeps its lens on the temple, on reform kings, and on the repentance formula (7:14) that will be quoted in a thousand sermons.

Author: The Chronicler (traditional — Ezra)
Date: Post-exilic, c. 450–400 BC

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The TabernacleSolomon's temple — Chronicler's perspective; Mount Moriah named explicitly.

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4 verses on the floor

Revelation 21:18–21
And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
1 Chronicles 29:2
Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
Isaiah 54:11–12
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
1 Chronicles 29:8
And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the Lord, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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It may be, after all, that these were stones with veins of different colors for decorating the walls. This was an ancient and thoroughly Oriental kind of embellishment. There was an under pavement of marble, which was covered with planks of fir.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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