2 Chronicles 3:5
Good News Translation
The main room was paneled with cedar and overlaid with fine gold, in which were worked designs of palm trees and chain patterns.

New Revised Standard Version
The nave he lined with cypress, covered it with fine gold, and made palms and chains on it.

Contemporary English Version
Solomon had the inside walls of the temple's main room paneled first with pine and then with a layer of gold, and he had them decorated with carvings of palm trees and designs that looked like chains.

New American Bible
The nave he overlaid with cypress wood and overlaid that with fine gold, embossing on it palms and chains.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

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1 Kings 6:15-17,21,22 And he built the walls of the house on the inside, with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the top of the walls, and to the roofs, he covered it with boards of cedar on the inside: and he covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. . . .

Context
The Temple's Interior
5And 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.6He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble, of great beauty.…
Cross References
1 Kings 6:17
And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits long.

2 Chronicles 3:6
He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble, of great beauty.

Songs 1:17


Ezekiel 40:16
And slanting windows in the little chambers, and in their fronts, which were within the gate on every side round about: and in like manner there were also in the porches windows round about within, and before the fronts the representation of palm trees.

Ezekiel 41:18
And there were cherubims and palm trees wrought, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub, and every cherub had two faces.

2 Chronicles 3:4
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