2 Chronicles 3:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

The most holy house. It was a perfect cube (cf. 1 Kings 6:20).

Overlaid it with ... gold, amounting to six hundred talents - at 4 British pounds per oz., equal 3,600,000 pounds sterling.

2 Chronicles 3:8

8 And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.