2 Chronicles 3:10
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New International Version (©2011)
For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He made two figures shaped like cherubim, overlaid them with gold, and placed them in the Most Holy Place.

English Standard Version (©2001)
In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of wood and overlaid them with gold.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then he made two sculptured cherubim in the room of the holy of holies and overlaid them with gold.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He made two cherubim of sculptured work, for the most holy place, and he overlaid them with gold.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He crafted two cherubim from wood, overlaid them with gold, and placed them in the Most Holy Place in the Temple.

NET Bible (©2006)
In the most holy place he made two images of cherubim and plated them with gold.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
In the most holy place he made two sculptured angels and covered them with gold.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And in the most holy place he made two cherubim of wood, and overlaid them with gold.

American King James Version
And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

American Standard Version
And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He made also in the house of the holy of holies two cherubims of image work: and he overlaid them with gold.

Darby Bible Translation
And in the house of the most holy place he made two cherubim of image work, and they overlaid them with gold.

English Revised Version
And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.

Webster's Bible Translation
And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

World English Bible
In the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.

Young's Literal Translation
And he maketh in the most holy house two cherubs, image work, and he overlayeth them with gold;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:1-17 The building of the temple. - There is a more particular account of the building of the temple in #1Ki 6". It must be in the place David had prepared, not only which he had purchased, but which he had fixed on by Divine direction. Full instructions enable us to go about our work with certainty and to proceed therein with comfort. Blessed be God, the Scriptures are enough to render the man of God thoroughly furnished for every good work. Let us search the Scriptures daily, beseeching the Lord to enable us to understand, believe, and obey his word, that our work and our way may be made plain, and that all may be begun, continued, and ended in him. Beholding God, in Christ, his true Temple, more glorious than that of Solomon's, may we become a spiritual house, a habitation of God through the Spirit.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 10. - Image work. The word in the Hebrew text (צַעֲצֻעִים) translated thus in our Authorized Version is a word unknown. Gesenius traces it to "an unused" Hebrew root צוַע, of Arabic derivation (meaning "to carry on the trade of a goldsmith"), and offers to translate it "statuary" work with the Vulgate (opus statuarium). The parallel (1 Kings 6:23) gives simply "wood of oil" (not "olive," Nehemiah 8:15), i.e. the oleaster tree wood. It is obvious that some of the characters of these words would go some way to make the other unknown word. But it must be confessed that our text shows no external indications of a corrupt reading.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

10-13. two cherubims—These figures in the tabernacle were of pure gold (Ex 25:1-40) and overshadowed the mercy seat. The two placed in the temple were made of olive wood, overlaid with gold. They were of colossal size, like the Assyrian sculptures; for each, with expanded wings, covered a space of ten cubits in height and length—two wings touched each other, while the other two reached the opposite walls; their faces were inward, that is, towards the most holy house, conformably to their use, which was to veil the ark.

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Dimensions and Materials
…8And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. 9And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. 10And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

Exodus 25:18 And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover.
1 Kings 6:23 For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
2 Chronicles 3:11 The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub.