1 Kings 6:16 BSB — MannaFest

1 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.

BSB

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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.

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.

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Commentary

4 voices

Bede

Of the Temple of Solomon 1.9.2 (735)

He calls the east side of the temple the rear; for the temple had its entrance on the east and its inner house, that is, the Holy of Holies, on the west. The fact that he says that the board partitions that separated the inner …

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

House - That is, the most holy place, which contained in length twenty cubits, which may be said to be on the sides Of the house, because this part took off twenty cubits in length from each side of the house, and was also twenty cubits from side to side, so it was twenty cubits every way.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The meaning is, that at the distance of 20 cubits, measured along the side walls of the house from the end wall, Solomon constructed a partition, which reached from the floor to the ceiling and had a doorway in it. He thus made within the house, a sanctuary for a holy of holies.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The cedar-wood was beautifully embellished with figures in relievo, representing clusters of foliage, open flowers, cherubims, and palm trees. The whole interior was overlaid with gold, so that neither wood nor stone was seen; nothing met the eye but pure gold, either plain or richly chased.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּבֶן֩	vai.yi.Ven	and he built	H1129 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
עֶשְׂרִ֨ים	'es.Rim	twenty	H6242 →
אַמָּ֜ה	'a.Mah	cubit[s]	H520 →
מִֽיַּרְכְּתֵ֤י	mi.yar.ko.tei	from [the] innermost parts of	H3411 →
הַבַּ֙יִת֙	ha.Ba.yit	the house	H1004 →
בְּצַלְע֣וֹת	be.tzal.'ot	with boards of	H6763 →
אֲרָזִ֔ים	'a.ra.Zim	cedar<s>	H730 →
מִן־	min-	from	H4480 →
הַקַּרְקַ֖ע	ha.kar.Ka'	the floor	H7172 →
עַד־	'ad-	to	H5704 →
הַקִּיר֑וֹת	ha.ki.Rot	the walls	H7023 →
וַיִּ֤בֶן	vai.Yi.ven	and he built	H1129 →
לוֹ֙	lo	for <the> it
מִבַּ֣יִת	mi.Ba.yit	from inside	H1004 →
לִדְבִ֔יר	lid.Vir	to an innermost room	H1687 →
לְקֹ֖דֶשׁ	le.Ko.desh	to [the] holy place of	H6944 →
הַקֳּדָשִֽׁים׃	ha.ko.da.Shim	the holy places	H6944 →

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Through
Leviticus 16:2
And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he…
leads to
- Exodus 30:10
  Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your generations he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. The altar…
- 1 Kings 8:10–12
  And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD
- Hebrews 10:19–20
  Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
- Hebrews 9:25
  Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.
- Hebrews 9:7–8
  But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
Through
Hebrews 9:3
Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,
leads to
- Exodus 26:31–33
  Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
- Exodus 40:3
  Put the ark of the Testimony in it and screen off the ark with the veil.
Through
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.
leads to
- 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.

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Where the connections lead

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06About 1 Kings

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About 1 Kings