2 Chronicles 3:9
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He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty sicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.

Context
The Temple's Interior
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
1 Chronicles 28:11
And David gave to Solomon his son a description of the porch, and of the temple, and of the treasures, and of the upper floor, and of the inner chambers, and of the house for the mercy seat,

2 Chronicles 3:10
He made also in the house of the holy of holies two cherubims of image work: and he overlaid them with gold.

Lexicon
The weight
וּמִשְׁקָ֛ל (ū·miš·qāl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4948: Weight, weighing

of the nails
לְמִסְמְר֥וֹת (lə·mis·mə·rō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4548: A nail

was fifty
חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים (ḥă·miš·šîm)
Number - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2572: Fifty

shekels
לִשְׁקָלִ֖ים (liš·qā·lîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8255: A weight, a commercial standard

of gold.
זָהָ֑ב (zā·hāḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2091: Gold, something gold-colored, as oil, a clear sky

He also overlaid
חִפָּ֥ה (ḥip·pāh)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2645: To cover, to veil, to encase, protect

the upper area
וְהָעֲלִיּ֖וֹת (wə·hā·‘ă·lî·yō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5944: Something lofty, a stair-way, a second-story room, the sky

with gold.
זָהָֽב׃ (zā·hāḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2091: Gold, something gold-colored, as oil, a clear sky


Additional Translations
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper area with gold.And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

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

And the weight of the nails, even the weight of each was fifty shekels of gold: and he gilded the upper chamber with gold.

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

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

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

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

and the weight of the nails is fifty shekels of gold, and the upper chambers he hath covered with gold.
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