1 Kings 6:17

And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.

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And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

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16And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

18(All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)

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Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 6:16-38

15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. 16 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. 17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long. 18 And the cedar of the… Read the whole commentary →

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