2 Chronicles 3:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

And the greater house he paneled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    He paneled the main hall with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and he decorated it with palm trees and chains.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And the greater{H1419} house{H1004} he ceiled{H2645} with fir-wood,{H1265} {H6086} which he overlaid{H2645} with fine{H2896} gold,{H2091} and wrought{H5927} thereon palm-trees{H8561} and chains.{H8333}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And the greater{H1419} house{H1004} he cieled{H2645}{(H8765)} with fir{H1265} tree{H6086}, which he overlaid{H2645}{(H8762)} with fine{H2896} gold{H2091}, and set{H5927}{(H8686)} thereon palm trees{H8561} and chains{H8333}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    But the greate house syled he with Pyne tre, and ouerlayed it with the best golde, and made palme trees and throwne worke theron,

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And the greater house he sieled with firre tree which he ouerlayd with good golde, & graued thereon palme trees and chaines.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And the greater house he seeled with firre tree, whiche he ouerlayed with the best golde, and graued thereto paulme trees and chaynes.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

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

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And the large house he hath covered with fir-trees, and he doth cover it with good gold, and causeth to ascend on it palms and chains,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm-trees and chains.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm-trees and chains.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

  • 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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    He paneled the main hall with boards made from evergreen trees and plated it with fine gold, decorated with palm trees and chains.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 6:15-17 : 15 And he built the walls of the house inside with cedar boards, from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling; he covered them on the inside with wood and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. 16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with cedar boards; he even built it inside for the oracle, for the most holy place. 17 And the house, that is, the temple in front, was forty cubits long.
  • 1 Kgs 6:21-22 : 21 So Solomon overlaid the house inside with pure gold, and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle, and he overlaid it with gold. 22 And he overlaid the whole house with gold, until he had finished all the house; also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 3:6-10
    5 verses
    88%

    6 And he adorned the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

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

    8 And he made the most holy house, the length of which was according to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and the width was twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

    9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

    10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

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

    35 And he carved on them cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and covered them with gold laid on the carved work.

    36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.

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

    28 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.

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

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

    31 And for the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood; the lintel and door posts made up a fifth part of the wall.

    32 The two doors were of olive wood, and he carved on them figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread the gold upon the cherubim and upon the palm trees.

    33 So also he made for the door of the temple posts of olive wood, a fourth part of the wall.

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

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

    16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with cedar boards; he even built it inside for the oracle, for the most holy place.

  • 2 Chr 3:4
    80%

    4 And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was one hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

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

    18 And the cedar inside the house was carved with gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, there was no stone seen.

    19 And the oracle he prepared in the house inside, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

    20 And the oracle in the front was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high; and he overlaid it with pure gold, and he covered the altar with cedar.

    21 So Solomon overlaid the house inside with pure gold, and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle, and he overlaid it with gold.

    22 And he overlaid the whole house with gold, until he had finished all the house; also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

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

    10 And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high, and they were supported by cedar timbers.

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

    14 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and worked cherubim on it.

    15 Also, 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.

    16 And he made chains, like in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

  • 1 Kgs 7:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2 He also built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was one hundred cubits, and its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

    3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams that lay on forty-five pillars, fifteen in a row.

  • Ezek 41:16-20
    5 verses
    77%

    16 The doorposts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries around their three stories, opposite the door, paneled with wood all around, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;

    17 To that above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.

    18 And it was made with cherubim and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;

    19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made throughout the house all around.

    20 From the ground up to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.

  • Ezek 41:25-26
    2 verses
    76%

    25 And on the doors of the temple there were cherubim and palm trees made, just as they were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks on the face of the porch outside.

    26 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, with thick planks.

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    75%

    9 To prepare me timber in abundance, for the house which I am about to build shall be exceedingly great.

  • Exod 36:34
    75%

    34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to serve as holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

  • 1 Kgs 6:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made chambers all around.

    6 The lowest chamber was five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide, and the third seven cubits wide; for he made narrowed rests all around outside of the house, so the beams would not be fastened into the walls of the house.

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

    11 And above were costly stones, cut to size, and cedar.

    12 And the great court all around was with three rows of cut stones and a row of cedar beams, for the inner court of the house of the LORD and for the porch of the house.

  • Jer 22:14
    74%

    14 Who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

  • 1 Kgs 10:18
    74%

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

  • Exod 37:11
    74%

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

  • 1 Kgs 7:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 And he made a porch of pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its width thirty cubits. The porch was in front of them, and the other pillars and the thick beam were in front of them.

    7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment, and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.

  • 1 Chr 29:4
    73%

    4 Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses.

  • Song 1:17
    73%

    17 The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

  • 2 Chr 9:17
    73%

    17 The king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

  • Ezek 42:5
    73%

    5 Now the upper chambers were shorter: because the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middle of the building.