Treasury of Scripture
garnished [heb] covered
precious
1 Chronicles 29:2,8 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver...
Isaiah 54:11,12 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors...
Revelation 21:18-21 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like to clear glass...
Parvaim Parvaim is supposed by Calmet to be the same as Sepharvaim in Armenia or Media; Bochart is of opinion that it is Taprobanes, now the island of Ceylon, which he drives from taph, a border, and Parvan, i.e, `the coast of Parvan;' but the late Editor Calmet thinks it the same as the Parvatoi mountains of Ptolemy, at the head of the Indus.