2 Chronicles 3:5

World English Bible (2000)

The greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 6:15-17 : 15 He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir. 16 He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls [of the ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place. 17 The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].
  • 1 Kgs 6:21-22 : 21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. 22 The whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 3:6-10
    5 verses
    88%

    6He garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

    7He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and its walls, and its doors, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.

    8He made the most holy house: its length, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

    9The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

    10In the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.

  • 1 Kgs 6:35-36
    2 verses
    83%

    35He carved [thereon] cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.

    36He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams.

  • 1 Kgs 6:28-33
    6 verses
    82%

    28He overlaid the cherubim with gold.

    29He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.

    30The floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and outside.

    31For the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood: the lintel [and] door posts were a fifth part [of the wall].

    32So [he made] two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim, and on the palm trees.

    33So also made he for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part [of the wall];

  • 1 Kgs 6:15-16
    2 verses
    81%

    15He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.

    16He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls [of the ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.

  • 2 Chr 3:4
    80%

    4The porch that was before [the house], its length, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

  • 1 Kgs 6:18-22
    5 verses
    80%

    18There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

    19He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.

    20Within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.

    21So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.

    22The whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold.

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

    10He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

  • 2 Chr 3:14-16
    3 verses
    78%

    14He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim.

    15Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

    16He made chains in the oracle, and put [them] on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

  • 1 Kgs 7:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was one hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

    3It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row.

  • Ezek 41:16-20
    5 verses
    77%

    16the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and [from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),

    17to [the space] above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.

    18It was made with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces;

    19so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. [thus was it] made through all the house all around:

    20from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.

  • Ezek 41:25-26
    2 verses
    76%

    25There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.

    26There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side rooms of the house, and the thresholds.

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    75%

    9even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

  • Exod 36:34
    75%

    34He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

  • 1 Kgs 6:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5Against the wall of the house he built stories all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side rooms all around.

    6The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house all around, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.

  • 1 Kgs 7:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.

    12The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and the porch of the house.

  • Jer 22:14
    74%

    14who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

  • 1 Kgs 10:18
    74%

    18Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

  • Exod 37:11
    74%

    11He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it.

  • 1 Kgs 7:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6He made the porch of pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a threshold before them.

    7He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.

  • 1 Chr 29:4
    73%

    4even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses;

  • Song 1:17
    73%

    17The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs. Beloved

  • 2 Chr 9:17
    73%

    17Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.

  • Ezek 42:5
    73%

    5Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.