2 Chronicles 3:5
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New International Version (©2011)
He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree and chain designs.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He paneled the main room of the Temple with cypress wood, overlaid it with fine gold, and decorated it with carvings of palm trees and chains.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The nave he lined with cypress and covered it with fine gold and made palms and chains on it.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He overlaid the main room with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The larger room he paneled with cypress wood, overlaid with fine gold, and decorated with palm trees and chains.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The main room of the Temple was trimmed with a wainscoting composed of cypress wood, overlaid with fine gold ornamented with palm trees and chains.

NET Bible (©2006)
He paneled the main hall with boards made from evergreen trees and plated it with fine gold, decorated with palm trees and chains.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He paneled the larger building with cypress, overlaid it with fine gold, and decorated it with [designs in the form of] palm trees and chains.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the greater room he lined with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

American King James Version
And the greater house he paneled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

American Standard Version
And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm-trees 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.

Darby Bible Translation
And the greater house he boarded with cypress-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set on it palm-trees and chains.

English Revised Version
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm trees and chains:

Webster's Bible Translation
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set on it palm trees and chains.

World English Bible
The greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.

Young's Literal Translation
And the large house he hath covered with fir-trees, and he doth cover it with good gold, and causeth to ascend on it palms and chains,

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 5. - The greater house; i.e. the holy place. He ceiled. This rendering is wrong. The verb is

(a) given above (ver. 4). It is repeated in the next clause of this very verse as "overlaid," as also in vers. 7, 8, 9. The generic word "covered" would serve all the occasions on which the word occurs here. From a comparison of the parallel it becomes plain that the meaning is that the crone structure of floor and walls was covered over with wood (1 Kings 6:7, 15, 18). That wood for the floor was fir (1 Kings 6:15), probably slim for the walls, which must depend partly on the translation of this ver. 15. It would seem to say that (beside the stone) there was an inner stratum, both to walls and floor, of cedar (reason for which would be easy of conjecture). But another translation obviates the necessity of this inner stratum supposition, rendering "from the floor to the top of the wall." According to this, while the overlaying gold was on cedar for walls and ceiling (1 Kings 6:9), it was on fir for the floor, which does not seem what our present verse purports, unless, according to the suggestion of some, "fir" be interpreted to include cedar. Set thereon palm trees and chains. These were, of course, carvings. The chains, not mentioned in the parallel (1 Kings 6:29; but see 1 Kings 7:17), were probably wreaths of chain design or pattern. Easier modern English would read "put thereon."

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. the greater house—that is, the holy places, the front or outer chamber (see 1Ki 6:17).

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Dimensions and Materials
3Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was three score cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. 4And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold. 5And the greater house he paneled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains. …

1 Kings 6:17 The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
2 Chronicles 3:6 He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim.
Song of Solomon 1:17 The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are firs.
Ezekiel 40:16 The alcoves and the projecting walls inside the gateway were surmounted by narrow parapet openings all around, as was the portico; the openings all around faced inward. The faces of the projecting walls were decorated with palm trees.
Ezekiel 41:18 were carved cherubim and palm trees. Palm trees alternated with cherubim. Each cherub had two faces: