1 Kings 6:28
in 1 Kings 6He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
KJV
And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
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This verse in 1 Kings 6
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThe two cherubim can also stand for the two Testaments. These cherubim, no doubt, were made in the oracle because in the design of God's providence, which is, of course, inaccessible and incomprehensible to us, it was arranged before the world began, when and how …
This site's exposition
two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood
on 1 Kings 6:23-28
The two cherubim of olive wood stand ten cubits high, with wings of five cubits each. The tabernacle’s cherubim were a small pair of gold worked into the mercy seat at Exodus 25:18-20. These stand free, carved of wood, overlaid with gold, and built to the room’s scale.
This site's exposition
He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.
John Gill reads the gold overlaid on the olive wood cherubim as the purity of angels. He also reads it as the gifts of the Spirit to the witnesses of Christ. Bede reads the two cherubim as the two Testaments.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And he overlaid the cherubim with gold. Which may denote the purity and excellency of angels; or the precious gifts and graces of the Spirit, with which the witnesses of Christ are adorned.
The words behind it
4 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיְצַ֥ף | vaytzaf | and he overlaid | H6823 → | 47 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַכְּרוּבִ֖ים | hakeruvim | the cherubim | H3742 → | 91 times |
| זָהָֽב׃ | zahav | gold | H2091 → | 389 times |
וַיְצַ֥ףand he overlaid
vaytzafH6823 →47 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַכְּרוּבִ֖יםthe cherubim
hakeruvimH3742 →91 times
זָהָֽב׃gold
zahavH2091 →389 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Kings
This page draws on Bede, Of the Temple of Solomon 1.13.7-8; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil, The Books of the Kings.