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1 Kings 6:31

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For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon constructed doors of olive wood with five-sided doorposts.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And for the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive-wood: the lintel and door-posts were a fifth part of the wall.

KJV

And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.

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Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Bede

Of the Temple of Solomon 1.15 · Written before 735.

As regards the first part of his statement, namely, "he made little doors of olive wood," he seems to have wanted to explain this more clearly when he added "and two doors of olive wood." For there was one entrance to the oracle. But this …

This site's exposition

a fifth part of the wall

on 1 Kings 6:31-35

The doors into the oracle are olive tree, a fifth of the wall's width, carved with the same cherubims, palm trees and open flowers as the walls and then gilded; the outer doors into the temple proper are fir, a fourth of the wall's width, carved the same way. Every threshold in the house repeats the same three carved figures, so a worshipper passing from the temple into the oracle meets no change of vocabulary, only a change of degree. The measurements differ enough to mark two separate doors and nothing more.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree,.... The door of the holy of holies was a two leaved or folding door, made of olive wood; typical of Christ, the door into the church above and below, the way to heaven and eternal life, the true olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall; four cubits, twenty cubits being the breadth of the oracle; or the lintel was four cubits, twenty being the height of it also, 1Ki 6:20.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A fifth part - Better than the margin. The meaning seems to be that the lintel was one-fifth of the width of the wall, and each door-post one-fifth of its height. Thus the opening was a square of four cubits, or of six feet.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

for the entering of the oracle--The door of the most holy place was made of solid olive tree and adorned with figures. The door of the holy place was made of cypress wood, the sides being of olive wood.

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The words behind it

10 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.

  • וְאֵת֙and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • פֶּ֣תַח[the] entrance of

    petachH6607 →164 times

  • הַדְּבִ֔ירthe innermost room

    hadevirH1687 →16 times

  • עָשָׂ֖הhe made

    ʾasahH6213 →2628 times

  • דַּלְת֣וֹתdoors of

    daltotH1817 →88 times

  • עֲצֵי־wood<s> of

    ʾatzei-H6086 →328 times

  • שָׁ֑מֶןolive

    shamenH8081 →193 times

  • הָאַ֥יִלthe pillar

    haayilH352 →

  • מְזוּז֖וֹתdoorposts of

    mezuzotH4201 →19 times

  • חֲמִשִֽׁית׃fifth

    chamishitH2549 →

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

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The walk

8 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

    John 14:6

    Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

    it leads to

    • Ephesians 2:18

      For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Acts 4:12

      Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”

    • John 10:9

      I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.

    • John 11:25–26

      Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

    • John 1:4

      In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

  • Through

    John 10:9

    I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.

    it leads to

    • John 14:6

      Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

    • John 10:7

      So He said to them again, “Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.

  • Through

    Ephesians 3:18

    will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth

    it leads to

    • Psalms 103:11–12

      For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.

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 Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Of the Temple of Solomon 1.15; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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