2nd Chronicles Chapter 3 verse 5 Holy Bible
And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm-trees and chains.
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And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.
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And the greater house he boarded with cypress-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set on it palm-trees and chains.
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And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
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And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set on it palm trees and chains.
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The greater house he made a ceiling with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and worked thereon palm trees and chains.
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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,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) The greater house.--Or, the great chamber, i.e. the Holy Place, or nave. (Comp. 1Chronicles 28:11.)He cieled with fir tree.--He covered with planks of fir; or, panelled with fir. To ciel, or rather seel (from syle or cyll, a canopy: Skeat, Etymol. Dict. s.v.) a room, meant in old English to wainscot or panel it. (Comp. 1Kings 6:15-16.)Which he overlaid with fine gold.--And covered it (the chamber) with good gold. The cypress wainscoting was plated with gold.And set thereon palm trees and chains.--Brought up on it (i.e., carved upon it) palms and chain-work (1Kings 7:17). (For the palms, see 1Kings 6:29; Ezekiel 41:18.) The chain-work must have consisted of garland-like carvings on the fir panels. 1Kings 6:18 omits mention of it; LXX., "carved on it palms and chains"; Syriac, "figured on it the likeness of palms and lilies"; Vulgate, "graved on it palms and as it were chainlets intertwining." . . .
