Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Chronicles 3:6

"And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim." — 2 Chronicles 3:6 (ASV)

Garnished. — Overlaid (2 Chronicles 3:4) the chamber.

Precious stones. — See 1 Chronicles 29:2 and 1 Kings 10:11, which relates that Hiram’s fleet brought precious stones from Ophir for Solomon. But no mention of this kind of decoration is made in 1 Kings 6. The Vulgate explains the phrase as meaning a floor of costly marble.

Gold of Parvaim. — Perhaps Farwâ, a gold-bearing region in South Arabia. Others connect the word with the Sanskrit pûrva, “eastern,” and seek Parvaim, like Ophir, in India. The name does not recur in the Old Testament.