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2 Chronicles 3:7

in 2 Chronicles 3

He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubim on the walls.

KJV

He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 3

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

in the second day of the second month

on 2 Chronicles 3:2-7

Chronicles gives the plan its own vocabulary. Where Kings names only the month, verse two adds the exact day, and the porch's height of a hundred and twenty cubits towers well above Kings' figure for the same building, a difference the bench reads as a copied number gone wrong rather than two towers. Gold of Parvaim and precious stones for beauty at verse six have no parallel in Kings, and the greater house of verses five and seven is this book's own name for the main chamber Kings simply calls the house.

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְחַ֨ףand he overlaid

    vaychafH264512 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הַבַּ֜יִתthe house

    habayitH10042046 times

  • הַקֹּר֧וֹתthe beams

    hakorotH6982

  • הַסִּפִּ֛יםthe thresholds

    hasipimH559232 times

  • וְקִֽירוֹתָ֥יוand walls its

    vekirotavH702375 times

  • וְדַלְתוֹתָ֖יוand doors its

    vedaltotavH181788 times

  • זָהָ֑בgold

    zahavH2091389 times

  • וּפִתַּ֥חand he engraved

    ufitachH6605144 times

  • כְּרוּבִ֖יםcherubim

    keruvimH374291 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • הַקִּירֽוֹת׃ סthe walls

    hakirotH702375 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 7:20

    His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 24:21

      Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of…

    • Jeremiah 7:30

      For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.

    • Isaiah 64:11

      Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

    • Ezekiel 8:7–10

      Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall.

    • Ezekiel 9:7

      Then He told them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.

  • Through

    Exodus 26:1

    “You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 36:8–19

      All the skilled craftsmen among the workmen made the ten curtains for the tabernacle. They were made of finely spun linen, as well as blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with cherubim skillfully worked into…

    • Exodus 26:36

      For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.

    • Exodus 26:31

      Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

Where this verse is studied

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About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament.