2 Tawarikh 3:5-7

3:5 He paneled ¹  the main hall ²  with boards made from evergreen trees ³  and plated it with fine gold, decorated with palm trees and chains. ⁴  3:6 He decorated the temple with precious stones; the gold he used came from Parvaim. ⁵  3:7 He overlaid the temple’s rafters, thresholds, walls and doors with gold; he carved decorative cherubim on the walls.

[3:5]  ¹ tn Heb “covered.”

[3:5]  ² tn Heb “the large house.”

[3:5]  ³ tn Heb “wood of evergreens.”

[3:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he put up on it palm trees and chains.”

[3:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he plated the house [with] precious stone for beauty, and the gold was the gold of Parvaim.”

[3:6]  sn The location of Parvaim, the source of the gold for Solomon’s temple, is uncertain. Some have identified it with modern Farwa in Yemen; others relate it to the Sanskrit parvam and understand it to be a general term for the regions east of Palestine.