1 Kings 6:22

Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely (and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold).

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.

In Context

21Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front of the inmost room, which itself was covered with gold.

23In the inmost room he made two winged beings of olive-wood, ten cubits high;

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Cross References

Exodus 26:29And the boards are to be plated with gold, having gold rings for the rods to go through: and the rods are to be plated with gold.

Exodus 30:3It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it.

1 Kings 6:20And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold.

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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