1 Kings 6:16

World English Bible (2000)

He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls [of the ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 8:6 : 6 The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.
  • 2 Chr 3:8 : 8 He made the most holy house: its length, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
  • Heb 9:3 : 3 After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,
  • Lev 16:2 : 2 and Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
  • Ezek 45:3 : 3 Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy.
  • 1 Kgs 6:5 : 5 Against the wall of the house he built stories all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side rooms all around.
  • 1 Kgs 6:19-20 : 19 He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. 20 Within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.
  • Exod 25:21-22 : 21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you. 22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
  • Exod 26:23 : 23 You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.
  • Exod 26:33-34 : 33 You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: and the veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you. 34 You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 6:14-15
    2 verses
    88%

    14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

    15 He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.

  • 1 Kgs 6:17-23
    7 verses
    87%

    17 The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].

    18 There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

    19 He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.

    20 Within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.

    21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.

    22 The whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold.

    23 In the oracle he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

  • 1 Kgs 6:2-6
    5 verses
    85%

    2 The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, its length was sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty [cubits], and its height thirty cubits.

    3 The porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was its length, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits was its breadth before the house.

    4 For the house he made windows of fixed lattice work.

    5 Against the wall of the house he built stories all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side rooms all around.

    6 The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house all around, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.

  • 1 Kgs 6:8-10
    3 verses
    84%

    8 The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third.

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

    10 He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

  • 1 Kgs 6:35-36
    2 verses
    83%

    35 He carved [thereon] cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.

    36 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams.

  • 1 Kgs 6:29-33
    5 verses
    80%

    29 He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.

    30 The floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and outside.

    31 For the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood: the lintel [and] door posts were a fifth part [of the wall].

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

    33 So also made he for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part [of the wall];

  • 2 Chr 3:7-8
    2 verses
    79%

    7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and its walls, and its doors, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.

    8 He made the most holy house: its length, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

  • 1 Kgs 7:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

    2 For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was one hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

    3 It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row.

  • Ezek 41:3-6
    4 verses
    78%

    3 Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits.

    4 He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.

    5 Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side.

    6 The side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might have hold [therein], and not have hold in the wall of the house.

  • 2 Chr 3:3-5
    3 verses
    78%

    3 Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

    4 The porch that was before [the house], its length, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

    5 The greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.

  • Ezek 41:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    15 He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

    16 the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and [from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),

    17 to [the space] above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.

  • 1 Kgs 7:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6 He made the porch of pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a threshold before them.

    7 He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.

  • Ezek 41:8-10
    3 verses
    77%

    8 I saw also that the house had a raised base all around: the foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits.

    9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side rooms, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house.

    10 Between the rooms was a breadth of twenty cubits around the house on every side.

  • Ezek 41:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    12 The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

    13 So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long;

  • 1 Kgs 7:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11 Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.

    12 The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and the porch of the house.

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    74%

    9 even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

  • 1 Kgs 6:38
    73%

    38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its fashion. So was he seven years in building it.

  • Ezek 41:20
    73%

    20 from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.