21 So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold. He stretched gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.

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14 And he made the (A)veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and wove cherubim into it.

15 Also he made in front of the [a]temple (B)two pillars [b]thirty-five cubits [c]high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. 16 He made wreaths of chainwork, as in the inner sanctuary, and put them on top of the pillars; and he made (C)one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the wreaths of chainwork.

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He also overlaid the house—the beams and doorposts, its walls and doors—with gold; and he carved cherubim on the walls.

And he made the (A)Most Holy Place. Its length was according to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits. He overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold. The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold; and he overlaid the upper (B)area with gold.

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Against the wall of the [a]temple he built (A)chambers all around, against the walls of the temple, all around the sanctuary (B)and the [b]inner sanctuary. Thus he made side chambers all around it.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:5 Lit. house
  2. 1 Kings 6:5 Heb. debir; here the inner room of the temple; elsewhere called the Most Holy Place, v. 16

34 He overlaid the boards with gold, made their rings of gold to be holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

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32 You shall hang it upon the four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold. Their hooks shall be gold, upon four sockets of silver. 33 And you shall hang the veil from the clasps. Then you shall bring (A)the ark of the Testimony in there, behind the veil. The veil shall be a divider for you between (B)the holy place and the Most Holy.

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29 You shall overlay the boards with gold, make their rings of gold as holders for the bars, and overlay the bars with gold.

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