2 Chronicles 3:5-17
boards <01419> [the greater.]
decorated <06823> [garnished. Heb. covered. precious.]
Parvaim <06516> [Parvaim.]
Parvaim is supposed by Calmet to be the same as Sepharvaim in Armenia or Media; Bochart is of opinion that it is Taprobanes, now the island of Ceylon, which he drives from {taph,} a border, and Parvan, i.e., "the coast of Parvan;" but the late Editor of Calmet thinks it the same as the Parvatoi mountains of Ptolemy, at the head of the Indus.
overlaid <02645> [overlaid.]
decorative cherubim <03742 06605> [graved cherubims.]
most holy place <06944> [the most holy.]
two .... cherubim <08147 03742> [two cherubims.]
made ... images <04639 06816> [image work. or, as some think, of movable work.]
inward <01004> [inward. or, toward the house.]
curtain <06532> [the vail.]
embroidered <05927> [wrought. Heb. caused to ascend.]
two pillars <08147 05982> [two pillars.]
52½ feet <07970> [thirty.]
The Syriac and Arabic have, agreeably to the parallel passage, "eighteen cubits high;" but the Septuagint, Chaldee, and Vulgate have "thirty and five cubits high." See the Note on 1 Ki 7:15.
length <0753> [high. Heb. long.]
ornamental chains ...................... chains <08333> [chains.]
one hundred <03967> [an hundred.]
set up <06965> [reared up.]
Jachin <03199> [Jachin. that is, He shall establish. Boaz. that is, In it is strength.]
