2 Chronicles 3:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the house was made beautiful with stones of great value, and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 29:2 : 2 Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more.
  • 1 Chr 29:8 : 8 And those who had stones of great price gave them to the store of the house of the Lord, under the care of Jehiel the Gershonite.
  • Isa 54:11-12 : 11 O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be sapphires. 12 I will make your towers of rubies, and your doors of carbuncles, and the wall round you will be of all sorts of beautiful stones.
  • Rev 21:18-21 : 18 And the building of its wall was of jasper, and the town was clear gold, clear as glass. 19 The bases of the wall of the town had ornaments of all sorts of beautiful stones. The first base was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; 20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. 21 And the twelve doors were twelve pearls; every door was made of one pearl; and the street of the town was clear gold, as clear as glass.

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  • 2 Chr 3:7-10
    4 verses
    88%

    7All the house was plated with gold, the supports, the steps, the walls and the doors; and the walls were ornamented with designs of winged ones.

    8And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.

    9And fifty shekels weight of gold was used for the nails. He had all the higher rooms plated with gold.

    10And in the most holy place he made images of two winged beings, covering them with gold.

  • 2 Chr 3:4-5
    2 verses
    88%

    4And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.

    5And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.

  • 1 Kgs 6:28-32
    5 verses
    82%

    28These winged ones were plated over with gold.

    29And all the walls of the house inside and out were ornamented with forms of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers.

    30And the floor of the house was covered with gold, inside and out.

    31For the way into the inmost room he made doors of olive-wood, the arch and the door supports forming a five-sided opening.

    32On the olive-wood doors were cut designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, all of them, with the doors, plated with gold.

  • 1 Kgs 6:21-22
    2 verses
    79%

    21Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front of the inmost room, which itself was covered with gold.

    22Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely (and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold).

  • 1 Kgs 6:35-36
    2 verses
    78%

    35These were ornamented with designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, plated over with gold.

    36And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.

  • 1 Chr 29:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more.

    3And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;

    4Even three thousand talents of gold of Ophir and seven thousand talents of the best silver, for plating the walls of the house:

  • Exod 36:34
    74%

    34All the boards were plated with gold, and the rings through which the rods went were of gold, and the rods were plated with gold.

  • 1 Kgs 6:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18(All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)

    19And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.

  • Exod 37:2
    74%

    2Plating it inside and out with the best gold, and putting an edge of gold all round it.

  • 1 Kgs 10:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17And he made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold, with three pounds of gold in every cover: and the king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.

    18Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.

  • Song 3:10
    73%

    10He made its pillars of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it of ebony.

  • 2 Chr 9:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16And he made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold, using three hundred shekels of gold for every cover, and the king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.

    17Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.

  • Exod 37:11
    73%

    11Plating it with the best gold and putting a gold edge all round it.

  • 2 Chr 3:14-16
    3 verses
    73%

    14And he made the veil of blue and purple and red, of the best linen, worked with winged ones.

    15And in front of the house he made two pillars, thirty-five cubits high, with crowns on the tops of them, five cubits high.

    16And he made chains, like neck ornaments, and put them on the tops of the pillars, and a hundred apples on the chains.

  • 2 Chr 4:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21The flowers and the vessels for the lights and the instruments used for them, were all of gold; it was the best gold.

    22The scissors and the basins and the spoons and the fire-trays, of the best gold; and the inner doors of the house, opening into the most holy place, and the doors of the Temple, were all of gold.

  • 1 Kgs 6:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood.

    16And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    72%

    9To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.

  • 1 Kgs 7:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.

    12The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.

  • Ezra 6:4
    72%

    4With three lines of great stones and one line of new wood supports; and let the necessary money be given out of the king's store-house;

  • 1 Kgs 6:9
    72%

    9So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.

  • Exod 37:24
    71%

    24A talent of the best gold was used for the making of it and its vessels.

  • Ezek 41:17
    71%

    17And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as the inner house, and to the outside and on the wall all round, inside and outside.

  • 1 Kgs 6:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:

    6The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.

  • 1 Chr 22:14
    71%

    14Now see, poor though I am, I have got ready for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver; and a weight of brass and iron greater than may be measured; and wood and stone have I made ready, and you may put more to it.

  • Exod 36:36
    70%

    36And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with gold: they had hooks of gold and four silver bases.

  • Exod 37:28
    70%

    28The rods he made of the same hard wood, plating them with gold.

  • Esth 1:6
    70%

    6There were fair hangings of white and green and blue, fixed with cords of purple and the best linen to silver rings and pillars of polished stone: the seats were of gold and silver on a floor of red and white and yellow and black stone.

  • Exod 37:26
    70%

    26The top and the sides and the horns were all plated with the best gold; and he put an edge of gold all round it.

  • 2 Chr 2:7
    70%

    7So now send me an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron? in purple and red and blue, and in the cutting of all sorts of ornament, to be with the expert workmen who are here in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom my father David got together.