1 Kings 6:19
17 And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
18 The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.
Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
20 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
21 So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.
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
- Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
- KJV
- And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
- WEB
- He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of the LORD’s covenant there.
- ASV
- And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.
- DARBY
- And he prepared the oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.
- BLB
- And the inner sanctuary in the midst of the house on the inside, he prepared to set there the ark of the covenant of YHWH.
- ÅB
- Innerst i huset innredet han et kor til å sette Herrens pakts-ark i.
- OTB
- Så forberedte han et innerste rom i huset for å plassere Herrens paktsark.
- B1930
- Innerst i huset innredet han et kor til å sette Herrens pakts-ark i.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Chronicles 5:7
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
Read in contextExodus 40:20–21
Moses took the Testimony and placed it in the ark, attaching the poles to the ark; and he set the mercy seat atop the ark.
Read in context1 Kings 6:16
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.
Read in contextPsalms 28:2
Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
Read in context1 Kings 6:5
Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
Read in contextHebrews 9:3–4
Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,
Read in context1 Kings 8:6–10
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
Read in context2 Chronicles 4:20
the lampstands of pure gold and their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;
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