2 Chronicles 3:6 - Exposition

He garnished . The verb employed is (e) of 2 Chronicles 3:4 , supra ( Revelation 21:19 ). Precious stones . The exact manner in which these were applied or fixed is not stated. What the precious stones were, however, need not be doubtful ( 1 Chronicles 29:2 ; the obvious references for which passage, Isaiah 54:11 , Isaiah 54:12 and Revelation 21:18-21 , cannot be forgotten. See also Ezekiel 27:16 ; So Ezekiel 5:14 ; Lamentations 4:7 ). For beauty ; i.e. to add beauty to the house. Parvaim . What this word designates, or, if a place, where the place was, is not known. Gesenius ('Lexicon,' sub vet. ) would derive it from a Sanskrit word, purva, meaning "oriental." Hitzig suggests another Sanskrit word, paru, meaning "hill," and indicating the "twin hills" of Arabia (Prof; 6.7. § 11) as the derivation. And Knobel suggests that it is a form of Sepharvaim, the Syriac and Jonathan Targum version of Sephar ( Genesis 10:30 ). The word does not occur in any other Bible passage.