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1 Kings 6:21

1 Kings 6:21 is verse 21 of 1 Kings chapter 6, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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.

Or made gold chains to draw (the curtains)

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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.

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.

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1 Kings 6:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible

19 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.

22 So he overlaid with gold the whole interior of the temple, until everything was completely finished. He also overlaid with gold the entire altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.

23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.

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Hebrew words

וַיְצַ֨ףand he overlaid שְׁלֹמֹ֧הSolomon אֶת<obj.>הַבַּ֛יִתthe house מִפְּנִ֖ימָהfrom within זָהָ֣בgold סָג֑וּרgold plate וַיְעַבֵּ֞רand he made pass בְּרַתּוּק֤וֹתwith chains of זָהָב֙gold לִפְנֵ֣י<to> before הַדְּבִ֔ירthe innermost room וַיְצַפֵּ֖הוּand he overlaid it זָהָֽבgold

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Exodus 26:29
Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.

Exodus 26:32
Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood, overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.

Exodus 36:34
And he overlaid the frames with gold and made gold rings to hold the crossbars. He also overlaid the crossbars with gold.

2 Chronicles 3:7
He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

2 Chronicles 3:8
Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.

2 Chronicles 3:9
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper area with gold.

1 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.

Exodus 26:33
And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

2 Chronicles 3:14
He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.

2 Chronicles 3:15
In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits.

2 Chronicles 3:16
He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork.

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