1 Kings 6:23

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Exod 37:7-9 : 7 He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten work, at the two ends of the mercy seat; 8 one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. He made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends. 9 The cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.
  • 2 Chr 3:10-13 : 10 In the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold. 11 The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one [cherub] was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was [likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. 12 The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits [also], joining to the wing of the other cherub. 13 The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.
  • Ps 18:10 : 10 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
  • Ps 80:1 : 1 Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.
  • Isa 37:16 : 16 "Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
  • Ezek 10:2-9 : 2 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling [wheels], even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched. 3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. 4 The glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub, [and stood] over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh's glory. 5 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks. 6 It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel. 7 The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took [of it], and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out. 8 There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings. 9 I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone. 10 As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel. 11 When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they didn't turn as they went. 12 Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, [even] the wheels that the four of them had. 13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling [wheels]. 14 Every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. 15 The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar. 16 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn't turn from beside them. 17 When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them. 18 The glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim. 19 The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. 20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim. 21 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. 22 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.
  • Heb 1:14 : 14 Aren't they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
  • 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
  • Gen 3:24 : 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
  • Exod 25:18-22 : 18 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. 19 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat. 20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat. 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 6:24-35
    12 verses
    87%

    24Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing to the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

    25The other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.

    26The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

    27He set the cherubim within the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.

    28He overlaid the cherubim with gold.

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

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

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

    32So [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.

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

    34and two doors of fir wood: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

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

  • 2 Chr 3:10-15
    6 verses
    85%

    10In the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.

    11The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one [cherub] was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was [likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

    12The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits [also], joining to the wing of the other cherub.

    13The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.

    14He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim.

    15Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

  • 1 Kgs 6:16-20
    5 verses
    81%

    16He 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.

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

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

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

    20Within 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 37:6-10
    5 verses
    78%

    6He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

    7He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten work, at the two ends of the mercy seat;

    8one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. He made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.

    9The cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.

    10He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, and its breadth was a cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half.

  • Ezek 41:18
    77%

    18It was made with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces;

  • Exod 25:17-20
    4 verses
    77%

    17You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

    18You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.

    19Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.

    20The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.

  • 2 Chr 3:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

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

    8He 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.

  • Ezek 41:20
    76%

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

  • 1 Kgs 6:22
    75%

    22The 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.

  • 1 Kgs 7:36
    74%

    36On the plates of its stays, and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths all around.

  • 1 Kgs 7:6
    74%

    6He 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.

  • 1 Kgs 8:7
    74%

    7For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.

  • Exod 37:1
    74%

    1Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two and a half cubits, and its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

  • 1 Kgs 6:10
    74%

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

  • Exod 30:2
    73%

    2Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.

  • Exod 25:23
    73%

    23"You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.

  • Ezek 41:25
    73%

    25There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.

  • Exod 36:35
    73%

    35He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman.

  • 2 Chr 3:4
    73%

    4The 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.

  • 1 Kgs 6:6
    73%

    6The 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.

  • Exod 25:10
    73%

    10"They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

  • Ezek 41:3
    73%

    3Then 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.