10 For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold.

Other Translations of 2 Chronicles 3:10

King James Version

10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image image...: or, (as some think) of moveable work work, and overlaid them with gold.

English Standard Version

10 In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of woodSeptuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain and overlaidHebrew they overlaid them with gold.

The Message

10 He made two sculptures of cherubim, gigantic angel-like figures, for the Holy of Holies, both veneered with gold.

New King James Version

10 In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim, fashioned by carving, and overlaid them with gold.

New Living Translation

10 He made two figures shaped like cherubim, overlaid them with gold, and placed them in the Most Holy Place.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Chronicles 3:10

Chapter Contents

The building of the temple.

There is a more particular account of the building of the temple in 1 Kings 6. It must be in the place David had prepared, not only which he had purchased, but which he had fixed on by Divine direction. Full instructions enable us to go about our work with certainty and to proceed therein with comfort. Blessed be God, the Scriptures are enough to render the man of God thoroughly furnished for every good work. Let us search the Scriptures daily, beseeching the Lord to enable us to understand, believe, and obey his word, that our work and our way may be made plain, and that all may be begun, continued, and ended in him. Beholding God, in Christ, his true Temple, more glorious than that of Solomon's, may we become a spiritual house, a habitation of God through the Spirit.