8 And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.
And you are to put up the veil under the hooks, and put inside it the ark of the law: the veil is to be a division between the holy place and the most holy.
And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.
And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord. And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold.
And inside the second veil was the place which is named the Holy of holies;
And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,
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Commentary on 2 Chronicles 3 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 3
It was a much larger and more particular account of the building of the temple which we had in the book of Kings than is here in this book of Chronicles. In this chapter we have,
Of all this we have already and an account, 1 Ki. 6, 7.
2Ch 3:1-9
Here is,
2Ch 3:10-17
Here is an account of