2nd Chronicles Chapter 3 verse 6 Holy Bible
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
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And the house was made beautiful with stones of great value, and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
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And he overlaid the house with precious stones for beauty; and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
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And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
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And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
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He garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
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and he overlayeth the house with precious stone for beauty, and the gold `is' gold of Parvaim,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - He garnished. The verb employed is (e) of ver. 4, supra (Revelation 21:19). Precious stones. The exact manner in which these were applied or fixed is not stated. What the precious stones were, however, need not be doubtful (1 Chronicles 29:2; the obvious references for which passage, Isaiah 54:11, 12 and Revelation 21:18-21, cannot be forgotten. See also Ezekiel 27:16; Song of Solomon 5:14; Lamentations 4:7). For beauty; i.e. to add beauty to the house. Parvaim. What this word designates, or, if a place, where the place was, is not known. Gesenius ('Lexicon,' sub vet.) would derive it from a Sanskrit word, purva, meaning "oriental." Hitzig suggests another Sanskrit word, paru, meaning "hill," and indicating the "twin hills" of Arabia (Prof., 6:7. ยง 11) as the derivation. And Knobel suggests that it is a form of Sepharvaim, the Syriac and Jonathan Targum version of Sephar (Genesis 10:30). The word does not occur in any other Bible passage (see Dr. Smith's 'Bible Dictionary,' vol. it. p. 711).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) Garnished.--Overlaid (2Chronicles 3:4) the chamber.Precious stones.--See 1Chronicles 29:2; and 1Kings 10:11, which relates that Hiram's fleet brought "precious stones" from Ophir for Solomon. But no mention of this kind of decoration is made in 1 Kings 6. The Vulgate explains the phrase as meaning a floor of costly marble.Gold of Parvaim.--Perhaps Farwa, an auriferous region in S. Arabia. Others connect the word with the Sanskrit p-rva, "eastern," and seek Parvaim, like Ophir, in India. The name does not recur in the Old Testament.
