1 Kings 6:27
These were placed inside the inner house, their outstretched wings touching the walls of the house, one touching one wall and one the other, while their other wings were touching in the middle.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
26The two of them were ten cubits high.
28These winged ones were plated over with gold.
Cross References
Exodus 37:9And their wings were stretched out over the cover; the faces of the winged ones were opposite one another and facing the cover.
1 Kings 8:7For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods.
2 Chronicles 5:8For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods.
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 →