2 Chronicles 3:6
New International Version
He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim.

New Living Translation
He decorated the walls of the Temple with beautiful jewels and with gold from the land of Parvaim.

English Standard Version
He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold of Parvaim.

Berean Standard Bible
He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim.

King James Bible
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

New King James Version
And he decorated the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was gold from Parvaim.

New American Standard Bible
Further, he overlaid the house with precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.

NASB 1995
Further, he adorned the house with precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.

NASB 1977
Further, he adorned the house with precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.

Legacy Standard Bible
Further, he overlaid the house with precious stones for beauty; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.

Amplified Bible
And he adorned the house with precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.

Christian Standard Bible
He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was the gold of Parvaim.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was the gold of Parvaim.

American Standard Version
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he nailed in the house fine seals for glory, and he overlaid all of it with pure gold.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty; and he gilded it with gold of the gold from Pharuim.

Contemporary English Version
He used precious stones to decorate the temple, and he used gold imported from Parvaim

Douay-Rheims Bible
He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble, of great beauty.

English Revised Version
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He covered the building with gems to beautify it and used gold from Parvaim.

Good News Translation
The king decorated the Temple with beautiful precious stones and with gold imported from the land of Parvaim.

International Standard Version
The Temple was adorned with precious stones, including gold from the Orient.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty; and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

Literal Standard Version
and he overlays the house with precious stone for beauty, and the gold [is] gold of Parvaim,

Majority Standard Bible
He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim.

New American Bible
He also covered the house with precious stones for splendor; the gold was from Parvaim.

NET Bible
He decorated the temple with precious stones; the gold he used came from Parvaim.

New Revised Standard Version
He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold from Parvaim.

New Heart English Bible
He garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

World English Bible
He decorated the house with precious stones for beauty. The gold was gold from Parvaim.

Young's Literal Translation
and he overlayeth the house with precious stone for beauty, and the gold is gold of Parvaim,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Temple's Interior
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. 7He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.…

Cross References
2 Chronicles 3:5
He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.

2 Chronicles 3:7
He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.


Treasury of Scripture

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

garnished [heb] covered

1 Chronicles 29:2,8
Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance…

Isaiah 54:11,12
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires…

Revelation 21:18-21
And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass…

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2 Chronicles 3
1. The place and time of building the temple
3. The measure and ornaments of the house
11. The cherubim
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(6) Garnished.--Overlaid (2Chronicles 3:4) the chamber.

Precious stones.--See 1Chronicles 29:2; and 1Kings 10:11, which relates that Hiram's fleet brought "precious stones" from Ophir for Solomon. But no mention of this kind of decoration is made in 1 Kings 6. The Vulgate explains the phrase as meaning a floor of costly marble.

Gold of Parvaim.--Perhaps Farwa, an auriferous region in S. Arabia. Others connect the word with the Sanskrit p-rva, "eastern," and seek Parvaim, like Ophir, in India. The name does not recur in the Old Testament.

Verse 6. - He garnished. The verb employed is (e) of ver. 4, supra (Revelation 21:19). Precious stones. The exact manner in which these were applied or fixed is not stated. What the precious stones were, however, need not be doubtful (1 Chronicles 29:2; the obvious references for which passage, Isaiah 54:11, 12 and Revelation 21:18-21, cannot be forgotten. See also Ezekiel 27:16; Song of Solomon 5:14; Lamentations 4:7). For beauty; i.e. to add beauty to the house. Parvaim. What this word designates, or, if a place, where the place was, is not known. Gesenius ('Lexicon,' sub vet.) would derive it from a Sanskrit word, purva, meaning "oriental." Hitzig suggests another Sanskrit word, paru, meaning "hill," and indicating the "twin hills" of Arabia (Prof., 6:7. § 11) as the derivation. And Knobel suggests that it is a form of Sepharvaim, the Syriac and Jonathan Targum version of Sephar (Genesis 10:30). The word does not occur in any other Bible passage (see Dr. Smith's 'Bible Dictionary,' vol. it. p. 711).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He adorned
וַיְצַ֧ף (way·ṣap̄)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6823: To lay out, lay over

the temple
הַבַּ֛יִת (hab·ba·yiṯ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house

with precious
יְקָרָ֖ה (yə·qā·rāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 3368: Precious, rare, splendid, weighty

stones
אֶ֥בֶן (’e·ḇen)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 68: A stone

for beauty,
לְתִפְאָ֑רֶת (lə·ṯip̄·’ā·reṯ)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8597: Beauty, glory

and its gold
וְהַזָּהָ֖ב (wə·haz·zā·hāḇ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2091: Gold, something gold-colored, as oil, a clear sky

[was]
זְהַ֥ב (zə·haḇ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2091: Gold, something gold-colored, as oil, a clear sky

from Parvaim.
פַּרְוָֽיִם׃ (par·wā·yim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 6516: Parvaim -- a region from which Solomon obtained gold for the temple


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OT History: 2 Chronicles 3:6 He garnished the house with precious stones (2 Chron. 2Ch iiCh ii ch 2 chr 2chr)
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