1 Kings 6:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Solomon plated the inside of the temple with gold. He hung golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary and plated the inner sanctuary with gold.

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  • Exod 26:29 : 29 You are to overlay the frames with gold and make their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and you are to overlay the bars with gold.
  • Exod 26:32-33 : 32 You are to hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold, set in four silver bases. 33 You are to hang this curtain under the clasps and bring the ark of the testimony in there behind the curtain. The curtain will make a division for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place.
  • Exod 36:34 : 34 He overlaid the frames with gold and made their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and he overlaid the bars with gold.
  • 1 Kgs 6:5 : 5 He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it.
  • 2 Chr 3:7-9 : 7 He overlaid the temple’s rafters, thresholds, walls and doors with gold; he carved decorative cherubim on the walls. 8 He made the most holy place; its length was 30 feet, corresponding to the width of the temple, and its width 30 feet. He plated it with 600 talents of fine gold. 9 The gold nails weighed 50 shekels; he also plated the upper areas with gold.
  • 2 Chr 3:14-16 : 14 He made the curtain out of blue, purple, crimson, and white fabrics, and embroidered on it decorative cherubim. 15 In front of the temple he made two pillars which had a combined length of 52½ feet, with each having a plated capital seven and one-half feet high. 16 He made ornamental chains and put them on top of the pillars. He also made one hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments and arranged them within the chains.

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  • 1 Kgs 6:22-23
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    22He plated the entire inside of the temple with gold, as well as the altar inside the inner sanctuary.

    23In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood; each stood 15 feet high.

  • 1 Kgs 6:19-20
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    19He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the LORD could be placed there.

    20The inner sanctuary was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He plated it with gold, as well as the cedar altar.

  • 1 Kgs 6:28-32
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    28He plated the cherubim with gold.

    29On all the walls around the temple, inside and out, he carved cherubim, palm trees, and flowers in bloom.

    30He plated the floor of the temple with gold, inside and out.

    31He made doors of olive wood at the entrance to the inner sanctuary; the pillar on each doorpost was five-sided.

    32On the two doors made of olive wood he carved cherubim, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold. He plated the cherubim and the palm trees with hammered gold.

  • 2 Chr 3:4-10
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    4The porch in front of the main hall was 30 feet long, corresponding to the width of the temple, and its height was 30 feet. He plated the inside with pure gold.

    5He paneled the main hall with boards made from evergreen trees and plated it with fine gold, decorated with palm trees and chains.

    6He decorated the temple with precious stones; the gold he used came from Parvaim.

    7He overlaid the temple’s rafters, thresholds, walls and doors with gold; he carved decorative cherubim on the walls.

    8He made the most holy place; its length was 30 feet, corresponding to the width of the temple, and its width 30 feet. He plated it with 600 talents of fine gold.

    9The gold nails weighed 50 shekels; he also plated the upper areas with gold.

    10In the most holy place he made two images of cherubim and plated them with gold.

  • Exod 36:34
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    34He overlaid the frames with gold and made their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and he overlaid the bars with gold.

  • Exod 37:2
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    2He overlaid it with pure gold, inside and out, and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.

  • Exod 37:11
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    11He overlaid it with pure gold, and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.

  • 2 Chr 4:20-22
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    20the pure gold lampstands and their lamps which burned as specified at the entrance to the inner sanctuary,

    21the pure gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs,

    22the pure gold trimming shears, basins, pans, and censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary(the most holy place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

  • 1 Kgs 6:14-17
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    14So Solomon finished building the temple.

    15He constructed the walls inside the temple with cedar planks; he paneled the inside with wood from the floor of the temple to the rafters of the ceiling. He covered the temple floor with boards made from the wood of evergreens.

    16He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters.

    17The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long.

  • Exod 25:11
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    11You are to overlay it with pure gold– both inside and outside you must overlay it, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold over it.

  • 1 Kgs 6:35
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    35He carved cherubim, palm trees, and flowers in bloom and plated them with gold, leveled out over the carvings.

  • 2 Chr 3:16
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    16He made ornamental chains and put them on top of the pillars. He also made one hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments and arranged them within the chains.

  • Exod 37:26
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    26He overlaid it with pure gold– its top, its four walls, and its horns– and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.

  • 1 Kgs 7:48-51
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    48Solomon also made all these items for the LORD’s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence,

    49the pure gold lampstands at the entrance to the inner sanctuary(five on the right and five on the left), the gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs,

    50the pure gold bowls, trimming shears, basins, pans, and censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary(the most holy place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

    51When King Solomon finished constructing the LORD’s temple, he put the holy items that belonged to his father David(the silver, gold, and other articles) in the treasuries of the LORD’s temple.

  • 1 Kgs 6:5-6
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    5He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it.

    6The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet wide, the middle floor nine feet wide, and the third floor ten and a half feet wide. He made ledges on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls.

  • Exod 26:29
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    29You are to overlay the frames with gold and make their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and you are to overlay the bars with gold.

  • 2 Chr 5:1
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    1When Solomon had finished constructing the LORD’s temple, he put the holy items that belonged to his father David(the silver, gold, and all the other articles) in the treasuries of God’s temple.

  • 1 Kgs 10:17-18
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    17He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold were used for each of these shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest.

    18The king made a large throne decorated with ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

  • 1 Kgs 6:2-3
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    2The temple King Solomon built for the LORD was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

    3The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet wide, extending out from the front of the temple.

  • 2 Chr 9:17
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    17The king made a large throne decorated with ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

  • Exod 25:24
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    24You are to overlay it with pure gold, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for it.

  • 1 Kgs 10:21
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    21All of King Solomon’s cups were made of gold, and all the household items in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest were made of pure gold. There were no silver items, for silver was not considered very valuable in Solomon’s time.

  • Exod 36:36
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    36He made for it four posts of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, with gold hooks, and he cast for them four silver bases.

  • Exod 40:26
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    26And he put the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the curtain,

  • 1 Kgs 6:11
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    11The LORD’s message came to Solomon:

  • Exod 37:24
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    24He made the lampstand and all its accessories with seventy-five pounds of pure gold.

  • Ezek 41:17
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    17to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement.