1 Kings 6:30
in 1 Kings 6And he overlaid the temple floor with gold in both the inner and outer sanctuaries.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
KJV
And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
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This verse in 1 Kings 6
Commentary
4 notes on this verseInside and outside mean in the oracle and in the temple itself. Now we have said above that the evenness of the floor denoted the humble harmony of the holy brotherhood where, though there are Jews and Gentiles, barbarians and Scythians, freeborn and slaves, highborn …
This site's exposition
carved figures of cherubims and palm trees
on 1 Kings 6:29-30
Cherubims, palm trees and open flowers are carved into every wall of the house, within and without, and the floor itself is overlaid with gold. Commentators read the combination as a deliberate echo of Eden, the cherubim who guarded the way to the tree of life at Genesis 3:24 now carved into the walls of the place where God again dwells among his people. Garden imagery, not the tabernacle's plainer forms, covers the sanctuary's every visible surface.
This site's exposition
he overlaid the temple floor with gold
Gold covered the floor of both the inner and outer sanctuaries, and John Gill sets it beside the street of pure gold in the New Jerusalem at Revelation 21:21. Bede reads the level floor as the harmony of believers, Jew and Gentile. Priests walked on gold.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold within and without. Both the floor of the holy place, and of the holy of holies; so the street of the new Jerusalem is said to be pure gold, Rev 21:21; this expresses the purity and magnificence of it, particularly the holy conversation of them that dwell in the church, in heaven, signified hereby.
The words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| קַרְקַ֥ע | karka' | [the] floor of | H7172 → | 8 times |
| הַבַּ֖יִת | habayit | the house | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| צִפָּ֣ה | tzipah | he overlaid | H6823 → | 47 times |
| זָהָ֑ב | zahav | gold | H2091 → | 389 times |
| לִפְנִ֖ימָה | lifnimah | to within | H6441 → | 13 times |
| וְלַחִיצֽוֹן׃ | velachitzon | and to the outer | H2435 → |
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
קַרְקַ֥ע[the] floor of
karka'H7172 →8 times
הַבַּ֖יִתthe house
habayitH1004 →2046 times
צִפָּ֣הhe overlaid
tzipahH6823 →47 times
זָהָ֑בgold
zahavH2091 →389 times
לִפְנִ֖ימָהto within
lifnimahH6441 →13 times
וְלַחִיצֽוֹן׃and to the outer
velachitzonH2435 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach 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
Isaiah 60:17Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness…
it leads to
- Hebrews 11:40
God had planned something better for us, so that together with us they would be made perfect.
- Isaiah 30:26
The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds…
- Isaiah 1:26
I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”
- Zechariah 12:8
On that day the LORD will defend the people of Jerusalem, so that the weakest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of…
- 1 Kings 10:21–27
All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the…
- Hebrews 11:40
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Kings
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Bede, Of the Temple of Solomon 1.14.3; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil, The Books of the Kings.