2 Chronicles 3:9
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New International Version (©2011)
The gold nails weighed fifty shekels. He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The gold nails that were used weighed 20 ounces each. He also overlaid the walls of the upper rooms with gold.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The weight of gold for the nails was fifty shekels. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The weight of the nails was 20 ounces of gold, and he overlaid the ceiling with gold.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The gold nails weighed 50 shekels. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

NET Bible (©2006)
The gold nails weighed 50 shekels; he also plated the upper areas with gold.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The gold nails weighed 20 ounces. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

American King James Version
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

American Standard Version
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty sicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.

Darby Bible Translation
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he covered the upper chambers with gold.

English Revised Version
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

World English Bible
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

Young's Literal Translation
and the weight of the nails is fifty shekels of gold, and the upper chambers he hath covered 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 9. - The weight of the nails, fifty shekels of gold. According to the above scale, therefore, this weight would be a twelve-thousandth part for the nails of all the weight of the overlaying plates of gold. The upper chambers. This is the first mention of these "chambers" in the present description, but they have been alluded to by the Chronicle writer before, in 1 Chronicles 28:11. What or where they were is as yet not certainly ascertained. Presumably they were the highest tier of those chambers which surrounded three sides of the main building. But some think they were a superstructure to the holy of holies; others, high chambers in the supposed very lofty superstructure of the porch. Both of these suppositions seem to us of the unlikeliest. It would, however, be much more satisfactory, considering that all the subject before and after treats of the most holy place, to be able to connect this expression in some way with it, nor is there any reason evident for overlaying richly with gold the aforesaid chambers (2 Chronicles 9:4 compared with 2 Chronicles 22:11) of the third tier.

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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.

1 Chronicles 28:11 Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, its storerooms, its upper parts, its inner rooms and the place of atonement.
2 Chronicles 3:10 For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold.