1 Kings 6:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front of the inmost room, which itself was covered with gold.

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  • Exod 26:29 : 29 And the boards are to be plated with gold, having gold rings for the rods to go through: and the rods are to be plated with gold.
  • Exod 26:32-33 : 32 Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases. 33 And you are to put up the veil under the hooks, and put inside it the ark of the law: the veil is to be a division between the holy place and the most holy.
  • Exod 36:34 : 34 All the boards were plated with gold, and the rings through which the rods went were of gold, and the rods were plated with gold.
  • 1 Kgs 6:5 : 5 And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:
  • 2 Chr 3:7-9 : 7 All the house was plated with gold, the supports, the steps, the walls and the doors; and the walls were ornamented with designs of winged ones. 8 And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it. 9 And fifty shekels weight of gold was used for the nails. He had all the higher rooms plated with gold.
  • 2 Chr 3:14-16 : 14 And he made the veil of blue and purple and red, of the best linen, worked with winged ones. 15 And in front of the house he made two pillars, thirty-five cubits high, with crowns on the tops of them, five cubits high. 16 And he made chains, like neck ornaments, and put them on the tops of the pillars, and a hundred apples on the chains.

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  • 90%

    22 Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely (and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold).

    23 In the inmost room he made two winged beings of olive-wood, ten cubits high;

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    19 And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.

    20 And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold.

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    28 These winged ones were plated over with gold.

    29 And all the walls of the house inside and out were ornamented with forms of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers.

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

    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.

    32 On 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.

  • 2 Chr 3:4-10
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    4 And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.

    5 And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.

    6 And the house was made beautiful with stones of great value, and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

    7 All the house was plated with gold, the supports, the steps, the walls and the doors; and the walls were ornamented with designs of winged ones.

    8 And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.

    9 And fifty shekels weight of gold was used for the nails. He had all the higher rooms plated with gold.

    10 And in the most holy place he made images of two winged beings, covering them with gold.

  • 34 All the boards were plated with gold, and the rings through which the rods went were of gold, and the rods were plated with gold.

  • 2 Plating it inside and out with the best gold, and putting an edge of gold all round it.

  • 11 Plating it with the best gold and putting a gold edge all round it.

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    20 And the supports for the lights with their lights, to be burning in the regular way in front of the inmost room, of the best gold;

    21 The flowers and the vessels for the lights and the instruments used for them, were all of gold; it was the best gold.

    22 The 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.

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    14 So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)

    15 The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood.

    16 And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

    17 And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.

  • 11 It is to be plated inside and out with the best gold, with an edge of gold all round it

  • 35 These were ornamented with designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, plated over with gold.

  • 16 And he made chains, like neck ornaments, and put them on the tops of the pillars, and a hundred apples on the chains.

  • 26 The top and the sides and the horns were all plated with the best gold; and he put an edge of gold all round it.

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    48 And Solomon had all the vessels made for use in the house of the Lord: the altar of gold and the gold table on which the holy bread was placed;

    49 And the supports for the lights, five on the right side and five on the left before the inmost room, of clear gold; and the flowers and the lights and all the instruments of gold;

    50 And the cups and the scissors and the basins and the spoons and the fire-trays, all of gold; and the pins on which the doors were turned, the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and the doors of the Temple, all of gold.

    51 So all the work King Solomon had done in the house of the Lord was complete. Then Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 6:5-6
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    5 And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:

    6 The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.

  • 29 And the boards are to be plated with gold, having gold rings for the rods to go through: and the rods are to be plated with gold.

  • 1 So all the work which Solomon did for the house of the Lord was complete. And Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of God.

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    17 And he made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold, with three pounds of gold in every cover: and the king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.

    18 Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.

  • 1 Kgs 6:2-3
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    2 The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

    3 The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.

  • 17 Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.

  • 24 Plated with the best gold, with a gold edge all round it;

  • 21 And all King Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the Woods of Lebanon were of the best gold; not one was of silver, for no one gave a thought to silver in the days of King Solomon.

  • 36 And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with gold: they had hooks of gold and four silver bases.

  • 26 And he put the gold altar in the Tent of meeting, in front of the veil:

  • 11 (And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

  • 24 A talent of the best gold was used for the making of it and its vessels.

  • 17 And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as the inner house, and to the outside and on the wall all round, inside and outside.