He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim.
Parallel translations
- WEB He decorated the house with precious stones for beauty. The gold was gold from Parvaim.
- KJV And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
- NKJV And he decorated the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was gold from Parvaim.
- NASB Further, he overlaid the house with precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.
- NLT He decorated the walls of the Temple with beautiful jewels and with gold from the land of Parvaim.
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Quick answer
Solomon adorns the house with precious stones and gold from Parvaim. He spares no expense for beauty.
Overview
The jeweled and gold-laden decoration further displays the temple's glory and the value placed on honoring God. The finest materials from distant places are gathered for his house. Such splendor reflects the worth of the One worshiped there and foreshadows the jeweled glory of the New Jerusalem.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 54:11–12“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.
- 1 Chr 29:2Now with all my ability I have made provision for the house of my God—gold for the gold articles, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood for the wood, as well as onyx for the settings, turquoise, stones of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and slabs of marble—all in abundance.
- Rev 21:18–21The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass.
- 1 Chr 29:8Whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the LORD, under the care of Jehiel the Gershonite.
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