2 Chronicles 3:9

Nails — Each of the nails, screws, or pins, by which the golden plates were fastened to the walls, weighed, or rather was worth, fifty shekels, workmanship and all. Upper chambers — Rather, the roof.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The upper chambers - Compare 1 Chronicles 28:11 . Their position is uncertain. Some place them above the holy of holies, which was ten cubits, o...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Chronicles 3:1 to 2 Chronicles 5:1 . The Building of the Temple and its Equipment (see notes on 1 Kings 6, 1 Kings 7:13-51 ). What was said i...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

weight of the nails. These small and simple things not excluded. They held all together; and, though out of sight, are remembered and named by God....
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 - Bo...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The upper chambers— This would have been rendered more properly here, the ceiling, the upper part of the house.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. No JFB commentary on this verse.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Particulars relating to the Temple This and the following chapter abbreviate what is recorded in 1 Kings 6:7 .
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. — Literally, And a weight for nails for shekels — fifty in gold. The LXX. and Vulg. take t...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

SOLOMON THE chronicler's history of Solomon is constructed on the same principles as that of David, and for similar reasons. The builder of the fi...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this and the following chapter we have the account of the building and furnishing of the Temple. In all fundamental essentials it was on the patte...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I have no doubt but that some interesting things are included in the dimensions, extent, and ornament. But all that we can speak of these things is,...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Chronicles 3:1 .
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. Ver. 9. And he overlaid the upper chambers....
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Fine gold amounting to six hundred talents That is, upward of three millions forty-five thousand pounds sterling. This vast sum was expended on the...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE (vv.1-17) We are reminded that the site of the temple was Mount Moriah, on property bought by David from Oman the Jeb...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Temple Built. B. C. 1012. 1 Then S...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Of the nails, i.e. of each of the nails or heads of those nails whereby the plates were fastened to the boards. The upper chambers; of which See...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] In two Chapter s is narrated the building of the temple, which correspond with 1 Kings 6 , 7. Here greater fulness of description...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Chronicles 3:1 . Mount Moriah, or the land of vision; the place which the rabbins generally allow to be the same where Abraham offered up his so...
The Biblical Illustrator

Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem. The surpassing beauty of the temple I. That God did not need this lavish expend...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Sanctuary Proper
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold, these nails being used to fasten the gold plate to the wooden lining of the walls. And he ove...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 9:8 ; 2 Chronicles 3:5 ; 2 Chronicles 7:21 ; Genesis 1:26 ; Joel 2:26

⁹ And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

Related Commentaries of 2 Chronicles 3:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 3:9