1 Kings 6:31

For the way into the inmost room he made doors of olive-wood, the arch and the door supports forming a five-sided opening.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

30And the floor of the house was covered with gold, inside and out.

32On the olive-wood doors were cut designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, all of them, with the doors, plated with gold.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 4:22The scissors and the basins and the spoons and the fire-trays, of the best gold; and the inner doors of the house, opening into the most holy place, and the doors of the Temple, were all of gold.

John 10:9I am the door: if any man goes in through me he will have salvation, and will go in and go out, and will get food.

Ephesians 3:18May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is,

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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