King James Version
What Does 2 Chronicles 3:6 Mean?
“And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim. garnished: Heb. covered”
Context
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And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
5
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
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And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim. garnished: Heb. covered
7
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.
8
And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(6) **Garnished.**—*Overlaid* (2Chronicles 3:4) *the chamber.*
**Precious stones.**—See 1Chronicles 29:2; and 1Kings 10:11, which relates that Hiram’s fleet brought “precious stones” from Ophir for Solomon. But no mention of this kind of decoration is made in 1 Kings 6. The Vulgate explains the phrase as meaning a floor of costly marble.
**Gold of Parvaim.***—*Perhaps *Farwâ,* an auriferous region in S. Arabia. Others connect the word with the Sanskrit *pûrva,* “eastern,” and seek Parvaim, like Ophir, in India. The name does not recur in the Old Testament.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
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