2 Chronicles 3:9 BSB

2 Chronicles 3:9

The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper area with gold.

BSB

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ASV

And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

KJV

And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The upper chambers - Compare 1Ch 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 1Ki 6:2, 1Ki 6:20); others, accepting the height of the porch 120 cubits 2Ch 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 1Ki 6:5-10).

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּמִשְׁקָ֛ל	u.mish.Kal	and [the] weight	H4948 →
לְמִסְמְר֥וֹת	le.mis.me.Rot	of nails	H4548 →
לִשְׁקָלִ֖ים	lish.ka.Lim	to shekels	H8255 →
חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים	cha.mi.Shim	fifty	H2572 →
זָהָ֑ב	za.Hav	gold	H2091 →
וְהָעֲלִיּ֖וֹת	ve.ha.'a.li.Yot	and the upper rooms	H5944 →
חִפָּ֥ה	chi.Pah	he overlaid	H2645 →
זָהָֽב׃	za.Hav	gold	H2091 →

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1 Chronicles 28:11
Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, storehouses, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the mercy seat.
leads to
- 1 Chronicles 28:19
  “All this,” said David, “all the details of this plan, the LORD has made clear to me in writing by His hand upon me.”
- Exodus 25:40
  See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
- 1 Kings 6:3
  The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple.
- Hebrews 8:5
  The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you…
- Exodus 25:17–22
  And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

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