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He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>The nave he lined with cypress, covered it with fine gold, and made palms and chains on it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold from Parvaim. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>So he lined the house with gold—its beams, its thresholds, its walls, and its doors; and he carved cherubim on the walls.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>He made the most holy place; its length, corresponding to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits; he overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper chambers with gold.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>In the most holy place he made two carved cherubim and overlaid<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-11240c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> them with gold. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>The wings of the cherubim together extended twenty cubits: one wing of the one, five cubits long, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>and of this cherub, one wing, five cubits long, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, also five cubits long, was joined to the wing of the first cherub. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits; the cherubim<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-11243d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> stood on their feet, facing the nave. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>And Solomon<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-11244e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> made the curtain of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and worked cherubim into it.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>He made encircling<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-11246f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> chains and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right, the other on the left; the one on the right he called Jachin, and the one on the left, Boaz.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Chronicles 3:3">2 Chronicles 3:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Syr: Heb <i>foundations</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Chronicles 3:4">2 Chronicles 3:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Compare 1 Kings 6.3: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Chronicles 3:10">2 Chronicles 3:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>they overlaid</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Chronicles 3:13">2 Chronicles 3:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>they</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Chronicles 3:14">2 Chronicles 3:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>he</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Chronicles 3:16">2 Chronicles 3:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>in the inner sanctuary</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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