1 Kings 6:27
They put those statues next to each other in the Very Holy Place so that the wing of the one touched the one wing of the other in the center of the room, and the outer wings touched the walls.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
28They covered the statues with very thin sheets of gold.
Cross References
Exodus 37:9He placed the winged creatures facing each other so that their wings touched each other and spread out over the lid.
1 Kings 8:7The wings of those statues spread out over the Sacred Chest and over the poles by which it was carried.
2 Chronicles 5:8The wings of those statues spread out over the Sacred Chest and over the poles by which it was carried.
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 →