◄ 2 Chronicles 3:9 ►
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Good News Translation
twenty ounces of gold were used for making nails, and the walls of the upper rooms were also covered with gold.

New Revised Standard Version
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

Contemporary English Version
Five hundred and seventy grams of gold was used to cover the heads of the nails. The walls of the small storage rooms were also covered with gold.

New American Bible
The weight of the nails was fifty gold shekels. The upper chambers he likewise overlaid with gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty sicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty sicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.

Context
The Temple's Interior
…8He made also the house of the holy of holies: the length of it according to the breadth of the temple, twenty cubits, and the breadth of it in like manner twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with plates of gold, amounting to about six hundred talents. 9He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty sicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 28:11
And David gave to Solomon his son a description of the porch, and of the temple, and of the treasures, and of the upper floor, and of the inner chambers, and of the house for the mercy seat,

2 Chronicles 3:10
He made also in the house of the holy of holies two cherubims of image work: and he overlaid them with gold.

2 Chronicles 3:8
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