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2 Chronicles 3:9

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Nail;   Temple;   Thompson Chain Reference - Nails;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jehoiachin;   Nail;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ceiling;   Nail;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ceilings;   Nail;   Temple;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cherub, Cherubim;   Nail;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Solomon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Nails;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Chamber;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ceiling;   Temple;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Nail;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Nail;   Shekel;   Temple;   Upper Chamber;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Nail;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Now the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also covered the upper rooms with gold.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the wayght of the nayles of golde was fiftie sicles: and he ouerlayed the vpper chambers with golde.
Darby Translation
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he covered the upper chambers with gold.
New King James Version
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold; and he overlaid the upper area with gold.
Literal Translation
and the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold, and he covered the upper rooms with gold.
Easy-to-Read Version
The gold nails weighed 1 1/4 pounds. He covered the upper rooms with gold.
World English Bible
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
King James Version (1611)
And the weight of the nailes was fiftie shekels of gold: and he ouerlaide the vpper chambers with gold.
King James Version
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And for nales he gaue fiftye Sicles of golde in weight, and ouerlayed the chambers with golde.
American Standard Version
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
Bible in Basic English
And fifty shekels weight of gold was used for the nails. He had all the higher rooms plated with gold.
Update Bible Version
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
New English Translation
The gold nails weighed 50 shekels; he also plated the upper areas with gold.
Contemporary English Version
More than a pound of gold was used to cover the heads of the nails. The walls of the small storage rooms were also covered with gold.
Complete Jewish Bible
The weight of the nails was one-and-a-quarter pounds of gold, and he overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the weight of the nayles was fiftie shekels of golde, and hee ouerlayde the chambers with golde.
George Lamsa Translation
And he also overlaid the altar with fine gold.
Hebrew Names Version
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
New Living Translation
The gold nails that were used weighed 20 ounces each. He also overlaid the walls of the upper rooms with gold.
New Life Bible
The nails weighed as much as fifty pieces of gold. He covered the rooms on the second floor with gold also.
New Revised Standard
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the weight of the nails, even the weight of each was fifty shekels of gold: and he gilded the upper chamber with gold.
English Revised Version
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
Berean Standard Bible
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper area with gold.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, the weight of the nails, amounted to fifty shekels of gold, - and, the upper chambers, covered he with gold.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty sicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.
Lexham English Bible
And the weight for the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid its upper rooms with gold.
English Standard Version
The weight of gold for the nails was fifty shekels. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
New American Standard Bible
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
New Century Version
The gold nails weighed over a pound. He also covered the upper rooms with gold.
Good News Translation
twenty ounces of gold were used for making nails, and the walls of the upper rooms were also covered with gold.
Christian Standard Bible®
The weight of the nails was 20 ounces of gold, and he overlaid the ceiling with gold.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But also he made goldun nailis, so that ech nail peiside fifti siclis; and he hilide the solers with gold.
Young's Literal Translation
and the weight of the nails [is] fifty shekels of gold, and the upper chambers he hath covered with gold.
Revised Standard Version
The weight of the nails was one shekel to fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

Contextual Overview

1Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to his father David, in the place that David had prepared, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2Solomon began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. 3Now this is the [measurement of the] foundation which Solomon laid for the house of God: the length in cubits—by the old standard of measure—was sixty cubits (90 ft.), and the width was twenty cubits (30 ft.). 4The porch in front of the house was as long as the width of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was 120 cubits. He overlaid it inside with pure gold. 5He overlaid the main room [the Holy Place] with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and decorated it with palm trees and chains. 6And he adorned the house with precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim. 7He also overlaid the house [the Holy Place] with gold—the beams, the thresholds, and its walls and its doors; and he carved cherubim on the walls. 8Now he made the room of the Holy of Holies: its length equaling the width of the house was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with 600 talents of fine gold. 9The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Exodus 38:20 - the pins 1 Chronicles 28:11 - upper chambers Jeremiah 35:2 - into one Ezekiel 40:7 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
And the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me—she gave me [fruit] from the tree, and I ate it."
Genesis 3:13
Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent beguiled and deceived me, and I ate [from the forbidden tree]."
Genesis 3:17
Then to Adam the LORD God said, "Because you have listened [attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have eaten [fruit] from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it'; The ground is [now] under a curse because of you; In sorrow and toil you shall eat [the fruit] of it All the days of your life.
Genesis 3:19
"By the sweat of your face You will eat bread Until you return to the ground, For from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."
Genesis 3:20
The man named his wife Eve (life spring, life giver), because she was the mother of all the living.
Genesis 3:21
The LORD God made tunics of [animal] skins for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
Genesis 4:9
Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he [lied and] said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
Genesis 11:5
Now the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
Genesis 16:8
And He said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, where did you come from and where are you going?" And she said, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The upper chambers - Compare 1 Chronicles 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 1 Kings 6:2, 1 Kings 6:20); others, accepting the height of the porch 120 cubits 2 Chronicles 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 1 Kings 6:5-10). This would seem to be the simplest and best explanation, though we cannot see any reason for the rich ornamentation of these apartments, or for David’s special directions concerning them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 3:9. The weight of the nails was fifty shekelsBolts must be here intended, as it should be preposterous to suppose nails of nearly two pounds' weight.

The supper chambers — Probably the ceiling is meant.


 
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