1 Kings 6:31

And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive wood: the lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall.

Revised Version 1895

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 he overlaid with gold, within and without.

32So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold upon the cherubim, and upon the palm trees.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 4:22and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the firepans, of pure gold: and as for the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple, were of gold.

John 10:9I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and go out, and shall find pasture.

Ephesians 3:18may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

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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