◄ 2 Chronicles 3:8 ►
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Good News Translation
The inner room, called the Most Holy Place, was 30 feet long and 30 feet wide, which was the full width of the Temple. Twenty-five tons of gold were used to cover the walls of the Most Holy Place;

New Revised Standard Version
He made the most holy place; its length, corresponding to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits; he overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold.

Contemporary English Version
The most holy place was nine meters square, and its walls were covered with over 20 tons of fine gold.

New American Bible
He also made the room of the holy of holies. Its length corresponded to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and its width was also twenty cubits. He overlaid it with fine gold to the amount of six hundred talents.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He 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.

the most holy

Exodus 26:33 And the veil shall be hanged on with rings, and within it thou shalt put the ark of the testimony, and the sanctuary and the holy of the holies shall be divided with it.

1 Kings 6:19,20 And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner part, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord. . . .

Hebrews 9:3,9 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies: . . .

Hebrews 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, a confidence in the entering into the holies by the blood of Christ:

Context
The Temple's Interior
…7And the gold of the plates with which he overlaid the house, and the beams thereof, and the posts, and the walls, and the doors was of the finest: and he graved cherubims on the walls. 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
Exodus 26:33
And the veil shall be hanged on with rings, and within it thou shalt put the ark of the testimony, and the sanctuary and the holy of the holies shall be divided with it.

1 Kings 6:16
And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at the hinder part of the temple, from the floor to the top: and made the inner house of the oracle to be the holy of holies.

2 Chronicles 3:7
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