1 Kings 6:5

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • 1 Kgs 6:16 : 16 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.
  • 1 Kgs 6:19-21 : 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.
  • 1 Kgs 6:31 : 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].
  • 2 Chr 4:20 : 20 and the lampstands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;
  • 2 Chr 5:7 : 7 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 5:9 : 9 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there it is to this day.
  • Ps 28:2 : 2 Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
  • Song 1:4 : 4 Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are right to love you.
  • Jer 35:4 : 4 and I brought them into the house of Yahweh, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.
  • Ezek 40:44 : 44 Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south; one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.
  • Ezek 41:5-9 : 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. 7 The side rooms were broader as they encompassed [the house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher around the house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward; and so one went up [from] the lowest [room] to the highest by the middle [room]. 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. 11 The doors of the side rooms were toward [the place] that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits all around.
  • Ezek 42:3-9 : 3 Over against the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story. 4 Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north. 5 Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building. 6 For they were in three stories, and they didn't have pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the uppermost] was straitened more than the lowest and the middle from the ground. 7 The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, its length was fifty cubits. 8 For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits. 9 From under these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court. 10 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were rooms. 11 The way before them was like the appearance of [the way of] the rooms which were toward the north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. 12 According to the doors of the rooms that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.
  • Exod 25:22 : 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.
  • 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.
  • Num 7:89 : 89 When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Yahweh, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim: and he spoke to him.
  • 2 Chr 31:11 : 11 Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in the house of Yahweh; and they prepared them.
  • Neh 10:37 : 37 and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our wave offerings, and the fruit of all kinds of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
  • Neh 12:44 : 44 On that day were men appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who waited.
  • Neh 13:5-9 : 5 had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the wave offerings for the priests. 6 But in all this [time] I was not at Jerusalem; for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king: and after certain days asked I leave of the king, 7 and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a room in the courts of the house of God. 8 It grieved me severely: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the room. 9 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the rooms: and there brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meal offerings and the frankincense.
  • 1 Chr 9:26 : 26 for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in the house of God.
  • 1 Chr 23:28 : 28 For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of Yahweh, in the courts, and in the rooms, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God;
  • 1 Chr 28:11 : 11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch [of the temple], and of its houses, and of its treasuries, and of the upper rooms of it, and of the inner rooms of it, and of the place of the mercy seat;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 6:6
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    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 6:15-21
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    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.

    16 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.

    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.

  • Ezek 41:5-12
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    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.

    7 The side rooms were broader as they encompassed [the house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher around the house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward; and so one went up [from] the lowest [room] to the highest by the middle [room].

    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.

    11 The doors of the side rooms were toward [the place] that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits all around.

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 6:2-4
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    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.

  • 1 Kgs 6:8-10
    3 verses
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    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 6:36
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    36 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams.

  • Ezek 41:15-17
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    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 6:29-31
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    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].

  • Ezek 42:5-8
    4 verses
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    5 Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.

    6 For they were in three stories, and they didn't have pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the uppermost] was straitened more than the lowest and the middle from the ground.

    7 The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, its length was fifty cubits.

    8 For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.

  • Ezek 42:10
    79%

    10 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were rooms.

  • 1 Kgs 7:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5 All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks.

    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.

  • Ezek 40:36
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    36 its lodges, its posts, and its arches: and there were windows therein all around; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.

  • Ezek 40:12
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    12 and a border before the lodges, one cubit [on this side], and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.

  • Ezek 42:3
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    3 Over against the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.

  • 2 Chr 3:7-8
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    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.

  • Ezek 40:29-30
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    29 and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in its arches all around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.

    30 There were arches all around, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits broad.

  • 2 Chr 3:3-5
    3 verses
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    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.

  • 1 Kgs 7:12
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    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 31:11
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    11 Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in the house of Yahweh; and they prepared them.

  • Ezek 40:33
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    33 and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in its arches all around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.

  • 1 Kgs 6:38
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    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.