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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Parvaim
Solomon got gold from Parvaim to overlay the temple, and nobody is sure where that was. Guesses run from Arabia to India. Some think the word just means the east.
Solomon got gold from Parvaim to overlay the temple, and nobody is sure where that was. Guesses run from Arabia to India. Some think the word just means the east.
A region of uncertain location from which Solomon obtained gold for overlaying the temple (2 Chronicles 3:6). Suggested locations range from Arabia to India, and some scholars think the word may simply be a general term for "eastern lands" rather than a specific place name, similar to the uncertainty surrounding the gold-source Ophir elsewhere in the Old Testament.
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- 2 Chronicles 3:6
