1 Kings 6:16

14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.

17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
KJV
And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
WEB
He built twenty cubits of the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built this within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.
ASV
And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor unto the walls [of the ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.
DARBY
And he built twenty cubits of the innermost part of the house, both floor and walls, with boards of cedar; and he built [them] for it within, to [be] the oracle, the most holy place.
BLB
And he built the twenty cubits at the rear of the house with cedar boards from floor to ceiling, and he built [it] inside, as the inner sanctuary, for the Holy of Holies.
ÅB
Tyve alen fra husets bakside satte han en vegg av sederbord fra gulvet og opp til loftsbjelkene, og rommet innenfor innredet han til kor - det var det Aller-helligste.
OTB
Han bygde også en del av tjue alen bakerst i huset med planker av sedertre fra gulvet til taket; han bygde dem på innsiden som et innerste rom, kjent som Det Aller Helligste.
B1930
Tyve alen fra husets bakside satte han en vegg av sederbord fra gulvet og op til loftsbjelkene, og rummet innenfor innredet han til kor - det var det Aller-helligste.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Kings 8:6

    And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.

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  • 2 Chronicles 3:8

    And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

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  • Hebrews 9:3

    And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;

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  • Leviticus 16:2

    And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.

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  • Ezekiel 45:3

    And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.

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  • Exodus 26:33–34

    And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.

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  • 1 Kings 6:19–20

    And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

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  • Exodus 26:23

    And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

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