1 Kings 6:31

And, the entrance of the shrine, made he with doors, of wild olive-wood, the pillars and posts being a fifth.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

30Even the floor of the house, overlaid he with gold,—within and without.

32The two doors, also were of olive-wood, and he carved upon them carvings of cherubim, and palm-trees, and festoons of flowers, and overlaid them with gold,—yea he spread out, over the cherubim and over the palm-trees, the gold.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 4:22and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and the censers, of purified gold,—and the entrance of the house, the inner doors thereof for the holy of holies, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.

John 10:9I, am the door: through me, if anyone enter, he shall be saved, and shall come in and go out, and, pasture, shall find.

Ephesians 3:18In order that ye may be mighty enough to grasp firmly, with all the saints,—what is the breadth and length and depth and height,

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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