2 Chronicles 3:5-9·~1 min

The Temple’s Interior

The main room is lined with cypress, covered with fine gold, and decorated with palms, chains, cherubim, and precious stones. Gold spreads across beams, thresholds, walls, and doors.

H⁵e paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains. ⁶He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim. ⁷He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

The description narrows to the Most Holy Place, a square room overlaid with a vast amount of fine gold. Even the nails and upper rooms are included in the accounting of gold.

⁸Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple— twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold. ⁹The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

Section summaryThe temple’s interior is described as richly paneled, carved, and overlaid with gold, with precious stones added for beauty. The account narrows to the Most Holy Place and lingers on its immense covering of fine gold, down to the weight of the nails.

Role in the chapterThis section moves from the temple’s outer form into its inner richness. It shows the house as carefully adorned in every part, preparing attention for the holiness of its innermost room.