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1 Kings 6:21

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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.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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.

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This verse in 1 Kings 6

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

A commentator

Bede

Of the Temple of Solomon 1.12.4 · Written before 735.

The gold leaf with which the house was covered is the manifold works of piety that pure love exhibits in the service either of its Creator or of a brother's need. The gold nails with which the gold leaf was attached are the very precepts …

This site's exposition

built the house, and finished it

on 1 Kings 6:14-22

The oracle Solomon builds within the house is a perfect cube, twenty cubits in length, breadth and height, overlaid inside with pure gold along with the altar of cedar standing before it. Commentators have long set that cube beside the New Jerusalem of Revelation 21:16, the only other cube given equal length, breadth and height in Scripture, reading the innermost room where God dwelt with Israel as a small pattern of where God will dwell with his people at the end. Between the cube and the outer walls the whole house is overlaid with gold, floor to ceiling, until Solomon had finished all the house.

This site's exposition

he extended gold chains

The gold chains ran across the front of the inner sanctuary, and Albert Barnes reads them as a barrier between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. John Wesley places the veil at the same partition. Matthew Henry notes that such plenty of gold lessened its worth.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Before the oracle - In the outward part of the wall, or partition, which was erected between the oracle and the holy place; which is properly said to be before the oracle, there the veil was hung; and there the chains or bars, or whatsoever it was which fastened the doors of the oracle, were placed.
So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Gold was under foot there, as it should be in all the living temples: the abundance of it lessened its worth. The oracle, or speaking-place (for so the word signifies), the holy of holies, so called because thence God spoke to Moses, and perhaps to the high priest, when he consulted with the breast-plate of judgment. In this place the ark of the covenant was to be set,

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

The house - i. e., the main chamber. The chains of gold - Omit “the.” Their object was to form a barrier between the holy place and the holy of holies.

A commentator

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.

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיְצַ֨ףand he overlaid

    vaytzafH6823 →47 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֧הSolomon

    shelomohH8010 →291 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַבַּ֛יִתthe house

    habayitH1004 →2046 times

  • מִפְּנִ֖ימָהfrom within

    mipenimahH6441 →13 times

  • זָהָ֣בgold

    zahavH2091 →389 times

  • סָג֑וּרgold plate

    sagurH5462 →91 times

  • וַיְעַבֵּ֞רand he made pass

    vayaberH5674 →556 times

  • בְּרַתּוּק֤וֹתwith chains of

    beratikotH7569 →

  • זָהָב֙gold

    zahavH2091 →389 times

  • לִפְנֵ֣י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • הַדְּבִ֔ירthe innermost room

    hadevirH1687 →16 times

  • וַיְצַפֵּ֖הוּand he overlaid it

    vaytzapehuH6823 →47 times

  • זָהָֽב׃gold

    zahavH2091 →389 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

7 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Exodus 26:29Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.2 works1 Kings 6:5Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.2 worksExodus 36:34And he overlaid the frames with gold and made gold rings to hold the crossbars. He also overlaid the crossbars with gold.2 worksExodus 26:32–33Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood, overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.2 works2 Chronicles 3:14–16He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.2 works2 Chronicles 3:7–9He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Chronicles 3:16He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork.2 works

The walk

6 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • 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.

    • 1 Kings 6:19–21

      Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.

    • Psalms 28:2

      Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

    • 2 Chronicles 5:9

      The poles of the ark extended far enough that their ends were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.

    • 2 Chronicles 4:20

      the lampstands of pure gold and their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;

  • Through

    Exodus 26:29

    Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 25:11–12

      Overlay it with pure gold both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
1 Kings: the study guide →Read 1 Kings 6 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Of the Temple of Solomon 1.12.4; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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