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1 Kings 6:21

So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold. He drew chains of gold across before the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold. He drew chains of gold across before the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.

  • KJV King James Version

    So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold; and he drew chains of gold across the wall before the Sanctuary; and he overlaid it with gold.

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Cross-references (6)

Passages linked to 1 Kings 6:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Exodus 26:29 You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars. You shall overlay the bars with gold.
  • Exodus 26:32-33 You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver. You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the covenant in there within the veil. The veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.
  • Exodus 36:34 He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold as places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
  • 1 Kings 6:5 Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around.
  • 2 Chronicles 3:7-9 He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls. He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
  • 2 Chronicles 3:14-16 He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim. Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits height, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. He made chains in the inner sanctuary, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

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Explain this verse (13 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, he drew through chains of gold before.

Hebrew, he drew through chains of gold before.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 6:21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The house, or, that house, to wit, the oracle.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the whole house he overlaid with gold,.... Both…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain House - Or, that house, the oracle. Partition -…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Ki 6:21. So Solomon overlaid the house within with…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The house - i. e., the main chamber.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Before, ver. 17. The holy and the most holy…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 21. The house within — The interior, or most…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 21. with pure gold] The adjective, or rather participle,…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (21) He made a partition by (the) chains of…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain So Heb. And. The ornamentation of the holy place…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Solomon overlaid ... he placed ... He overlaid ...…

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