1 Kings 6:5

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He built a structure against the wall of the house, enclosing the walls of the house around the main hall and the inner sanctuary, and he made side chambers all around.

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  • 1 Kgs 6:16 : 16 He built twenty cubits at the rear of the house with cedar boards, from the floor to the walls, to form the inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
  • 1 Kgs 6:19-21 : 19 He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the house to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there. 20 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the altar with cedar. 21 Solomon overlaid the interior of the house with pure gold, and he placed gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which he also overlaid with gold.
  • 1 Kgs 6:31 : 31 For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood; the doorposts formed a pentagon.
  • 2 Chr 4:20 : 20 the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary according to the prescribed regulations.
  • 2 Chr 5:7 : 7 The priests brought the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and placed it beneath the wings of the cherubim.
  • 2 Chr 5:9 : 9 The poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from the outside. They remain there to this day.
  • Ps 28:2 : 2 Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry out to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy sanctuary.
  • Song 1:4 : 4 Take me away with you—let us run! The king has brought me into his chambers. We will rejoice and be glad in you; we will celebrate your love more than wine. Rightly do they love you.
  • Jer 35:4 : 4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was near the chamber of the officials, above the chamber of Maaseiah, son of Shallum, the gatekeeper.
  • Ezek 40:44 : 44 Outside the inner gate, in the inner courtyard, were chambers for the singers, by the side of the north gate facing south, and one by the side of the east gate facing north.
  • Ezek 41:5-9 : 5 Then he measured the wall of the temple, which was six cubits thick, and the width of the side rooms surrounding the temple was four cubits. 6 The side rooms were arranged one above the other in three stories, with thirty chambers per story. They were supported by wall offsets in the temple, so that they were not fastened into the wall of the temple itself. 7 The side rooms became wider as they went higher, because the temple walls narrowed at each upward level. A stairway allowed access from the lower story to the upper story through the middle story. 8 I also saw that the temple had a raised base all around it. This foundation for the side chambers was six cubits high. 9 The outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits thick, and there was a free space of open ground around the temple. 10 There was a space of twenty cubits between the side chambers and the outer chambers, all around the temple. 11 The entrances to the side chambers opened into the free space, with one entrance facing north and another facing south. The width of the open area was five cubits all around.
  • Ezek 42:3-9 : 3 It faced the twenty cubits belonging to the inner court and the pavement belonging to the outer court, with a gallery facing a gallery, set in three tiers. 4 Opposite the chambers was a walkway ten cubits wide and one cubit long, and their entrances faced the north. 5 The upper chambers were shorter because the galleries took away space from them, compared to the lower and middle tiers of the building. 6 These chambers were arranged in three tiers, but they did not have columns like the columns of the courts. Therefore, they were set back from the lower and middle tiers, starting from the ground. 7 There was a wall on the outside beside the chambers, parallel to the outer court—a wall fifty cubits long. 8 For the length of the chambers belonging to the outer court was fifty cubits, whereas those that faced the temple were one hundred cubits long. 9 Underneath these chambers was the entrance from the east, which one could use when coming into them from the outer court. 10 On the width of the wall of the courtyard, facing the separated area and the building, on the east side, were chambers. 11 The passageway in front of them matched the appearance of the chambers on the north; they had the same length and width, with identical exits, designs, and entrances. 12 Just like the entrances of the chambers facing south, there was an entrance at the head of the way that ran before the wall, directly eastward as one approached them.
  • Exod 25:22 : 22 I will meet with you there and speak with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, about everything I will command you regarding the Israelites.
  • Lev 16:2 : 2 The LORD said to Moses, "Tell your brother Aaron that he must not come at any time into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain, in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the atonement cover.
  • Num 7:89 : 89 Whenever Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the atonement cover that was on the ark of the covenant, between the two cherubim. And the LORD spoke to him.
  • 2 Chr 31:11 : 11 Hezekiah gave orders to prepare storerooms in the house of the Lord, and they prepared them.
  • Neh 10:37 : 37 We agreed to bring the firstborn of our sons and of our livestock, as written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests ministering there.
  • Neh 12:44 : 44 On that day, men were appointed to oversee the storerooms for contributions, firstfruits, and tithes. They gathered the portions assigned for the priests and Levites from the fields around the towns, because Judah rejoiced over the priests and Levites who stood in service.
  • Neh 13:5-9 : 5 He had provided Tobiah with a large room, where previously they had stored the grain offerings, incense, temple articles, tithes of grain, new wine, and oil, which were prescribed for the Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests. 6 While all of this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Some time later, I asked the king for permission to leave. 7 I returned to Jerusalem and understood the evil thing that Eliashib had done for Tobiah by providing him a room in the courts of the house of God. 8 I was greatly displeased, and I threw all of Tobiah’s household belongings out of the room. 9 Then I ordered the rooms to be purified, and I brought back the articles of the house of God, along with the grain offerings and the incense.
  • 1 Chr 9:26 : 26 For these four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the chambers and the treasuries of the house of God because of their faithfulness.
  • 1 Chr 23:28 : 28 Their job was to assist the descendants of Aaron in the service of the house of the Lord, overseeing the courtyards, the rooms, the ceremonial cleansing of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God.
  • 1 Chr 28:11 : 11 Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, its storerooms, its upper rooms, its inner rooms, and the room for the mercy seat.

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  • 1 Kgs 6:6
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    6The lowest side chamber was five cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide. For around the outside of the house, he made offsets on the wall so that the beams would not be embedded in the walls of the house.

  • 1 Kgs 6:15-21
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    15He built the walls of the house on the inside with cedar boards, from the floor of the house to the ceiling, overlaying the interior with wood, and he covered the floor of the house with cypress planks.

    16He built twenty cubits at the rear of the house with cedar boards, from the floor to the walls, to form the inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

    17The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was forty cubits long.

    18The cedar within the house was carved with gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone could be seen.

    19He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the house to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.

    20The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the altar with cedar.

    21Solomon overlaid the interior of the house with pure gold, and he placed gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which he also overlaid with gold.

  • Ezek 41:5-12
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    5Then he measured the wall of the temple, which was six cubits thick, and the width of the side rooms surrounding the temple was four cubits.

    6The side rooms were arranged one above the other in three stories, with thirty chambers per story. They were supported by wall offsets in the temple, so that they were not fastened into the wall of the temple itself.

    7The side rooms became wider as they went higher, because the temple walls narrowed at each upward level. A stairway allowed access from the lower story to the upper story through the middle story.

    8I also saw that the temple had a raised base all around it. This foundation for the side chambers was six cubits high.

    9The outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits thick, and there was a free space of open ground around the temple.

    10There was a space of twenty cubits between the side chambers and the outer chambers, all around the temple.

    11The entrances to the side chambers opened into the free space, with one entrance facing north and another facing south. The width of the open area was five cubits all around.

    12The building facing the courtyard on the west side was seventy cubits wide, and its wall was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.

  • 1 Kgs 6:2-4
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    2The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

    3The vestibule in front of the main hall of the house was twenty cubits long, extending along the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.

    4He made windows with recessed frames for the house.

  • 1 Kgs 6:8-10
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    8The entrance to the lowest side chamber was on the south side of the house, with stairs going up to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.

    9So he built the house and finished it, and he covered the house with beams and rows of cedar boards.

    10He also built the annex against the entire house, five cubits high, and it was attached to the house with cedar beams.

  • 1 Kgs 6:36
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    36He built the inner courtyard with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.

  • Ezek 41:15-17
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    15He measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the back, along with its galleries on either side, which were one hundred cubits. The interior of the temple and the porches of the courtyard were also measured.

    16The thresholds, the closed windows, and the galleries around the three sides opposite the threshold were paneled with wood all around, completely surrounding from the ground up to the windows, which were covered.

    17From above the entrance to the inner house and on the outside, and on all the walls all around, both inside and out, there were measurements.

  • 1 Kgs 6:29-31
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    29He decorated the walls of the house all around with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, both in the inner and outer rooms.

    30He also overlaid the floor of the house with gold, both the inner and the outer rooms.

    31For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood; the doorposts formed a pentagon.

  • Ezek 42:5-8
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    5The upper chambers were shorter because the galleries took away space from them, compared to the lower and middle tiers of the building.

    6These chambers were arranged in three tiers, but they did not have columns like the columns of the courts. Therefore, they were set back from the lower and middle tiers, starting from the ground.

    7There was a wall on the outside beside the chambers, parallel to the outer court—a wall fifty cubits long.

    8For the length of the chambers belonging to the outer court was fifty cubits, whereas those that faced the temple were one hundred cubits long.

  • Ezek 42:10
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    10On the width of the wall of the courtyard, facing the separated area and the building, on the east side, were chambers.

  • 1 Kgs 7:5-6
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    5All the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames, with openings placed directly opposite each other in three tiers.

    6He made the Hall of Pillars, which was fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of the pillars and a canopy above them.

  • Ezek 40:36
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    36Its guardrooms, posts, and porches matched the measurements of the others. Windows were all around. The length of the gate was fifty cubits, and the width was twenty-five cubits.

  • Ezek 40:12
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    12There was a border of one cubit in front of the guardrooms on either side, and each guardroom was six cubits square on both sides.

  • Ezek 42:3
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    3It faced the twenty cubits belonging to the inner court and the pavement belonging to the outer court, with a gallery facing a gallery, set in three tiers.

  • 2 Chr 3:7-8
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    7He overlaid the beams, thresholds, walls, and doors of the house with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

    8He made the Most Holy Place in the inner sanctuary. Its length was twenty cubits, corresponding to the width of the house, and its width was twenty cubits. He overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

  • Ezek 40:29-30
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    29Its guardrooms, posts, and porches had the same measurements as the others. The gate and its porches had windows all around, fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

    30The porches stretched all around, with a length of twenty-five cubits and a width of five cubits.

  • 2 Chr 3:3-5
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    3These are the measurements that Solomon laid for building the house of God: sixty cubits long, according to the old standard, and twenty cubits wide.

    4The porch in front of the house was twenty cubits long, corresponding to the width of the house, and its height was one hundred and twenty cubits. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

    5He paneled the main hall with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and he decorated it with palm trees and chains.

  • 1 Kgs 7:12
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    12The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of hewn stone and one row of cedar beams, similar in design to the inner courtyard of the Lord's house and its portico.

  • 2 Chr 31:11
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    11Hezekiah gave orders to prepare storerooms in the house of the Lord, and they prepared them.

  • Ezek 40:33
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    33Its guardrooms, posts, and porches had the same measurements as the others. Windows were all around the gate and its porches. The total length was fifty cubits, and the width was twenty-five cubits.

  • 1 Kgs 6:38
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    38In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul (the eighth month), the house was completed in every detail according to its specifications. Solomon built it in seven years.