Scripture · Old Testament
2 Chronicles 3:9
2 Chronicles 3:9 is verse 9 of 2 Chronicles chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper area with gold.
50 shekels is approximately 1.26 pounds or 569.8 grams of gold.
King James Version
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
World English Bible
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 50 shekels was about 0.5 kilograms or about 16 Troy ounces.
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2 Chronicles 3:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
7 He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.
8 Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.
9 The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper area with gold.
10 In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of sculptured work, and he overlaid them with gold.
11 The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the wall of the temple, and its other wing was five cubits long and touched the wing of the other cherub.
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