Verse 21
1 Kings 6:21
Free Bible Version
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He had all the Temple walls, both the inner and outer sanctuaries, carved with designs of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יְצַ֨ף שְׁלֹמֹ֧ה אֶת הַ/בַּ֛יִת מִ/פְּנִ֖ימָה זָהָ֣ב סָג֑וּר וַ/יְעַבֵּ֞ר ב/רתיקות בְּ/רַתּוּק֤וֹת זָהָב֙ לִ/פְנֵ֣י הַ/דְּבִ֔יר וַ/יְצַפֵּ֖/הוּ זָהָֽב
English Translation
And Solomon overlaid the house with pure gold inside, and he made chains of gold across the front of the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid the inner sanctuary with gold.
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Chapter 6 Context
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Four hundred and eighty years after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of King Solomon's...
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The entrance room at the front of the Temple was twenty cubits wide. It ran the whole width of the T...
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He also had a structure built against the outer wall of the Temple, both the outer and the inner san...
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The ground floor measured five cubits wide, the first floor six cubits, and the second floor seven c...
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When the Temple was built the stones were finished at the quarry so that no noise from any hammer, a...
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The entrance to the ground floor was on the south side of the Temple. Stairs led to the first floor,...
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So Solomon finished building the Temple, covering it with a roof made of cedar rafters and planks.
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He built the external structure along the whole of the Temple. It was five cubits high, joined to th...
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The Lord sent this message to Solomon, telling him,
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“About this Temple you are building: if you follow what I have said, fulfilling my requirements and...
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I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon Israel, my people.”
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12
He sectioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the Temple with boards of cedar from floor to ceiling,...
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The cedar panels inside the Temple were decorated with carvings of gourds and open flowers. Everythi...
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The inner sanctuary measured twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He had...
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Solomon had the whole of the inside of the Temple covered with pure gold, He had gold chains stretch...
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He covered the whole inside of the Temple with a coating of gold until it was all finished. He also...
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He had two cherubim made out of olive wood for the inner sanctuary, each one ten cubits tall.
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Both wings of the cherub measured five cubits, making a total wingspan of ten cubits.
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The other cherub was also ten cubits tall, since they were identical both in size and shape.
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He had the cherubim placed inside the inner sanctuary of the Temple. Since their wings were fully sp...
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He had all the Temple walls, both the inner and outer sanctuaries, carved with designs of cherubim,...
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He also had the floor of the Temple covered with gold, both the inner and outer sanctuaries.
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He had doors of olive wood made for the entrance to the inner sanctuary, together with a lintel and...
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These olive wood double doors had carved into them designs of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers...
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Its doors were made of cypress wood, each with two hinged panels.
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He had them carved with designs of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and covered them with gol...
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The foundation of the Lord's Temple was laid in the fourth year of Solomon's reign, in the month of...
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The Temple was finished exactly as specified and planned in Solomon's eleventh year, in the eighth m...
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