2 Chronicles 3:5
The Temple’s Interior
4The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold. 5He 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.
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Berean Standard Bible
He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with 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
And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.
Douay-Rheims 1899
And the greater house he ceiled with deal boards, and overlaid them with plates of fine gold throughout: and he graved in them palm trees, and like little chains interlaced with one another.
Free Bible Version
He paneled the main room with cypress overlaid with fine gold, with images of palm trees and chains.
Geneva Bible 1599
And the greater house he sieled with firre tree which he ouerlayd with good golde, and graued thereon palme trees and chaines.
King James (Authorized) Version
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
Translation for Translators
Solomon’s workers used panels/boards of pine wood to line the main hall of the temple. Then they covered those panels with very thin sheets of pure gold. Then they decorated the walls with carved images of palm trees and designs that resembled chains.
Unlocked Literal Bible
He fashioned the ceiling of the main hall with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold, and which he carved with palm trees and chains.
Noah Webster Bible
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set on it palm trees and chains.
World English Bible
He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.
Young's Literal Translation
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,