They built a room 20 cubits [40] long deep inside the back part of the temple. They covered the walls in this room with cedar boards. The cedar boards went from the floor to the ceiling. This room was called the Most Holy Place.
1 Kings 6:17 - Easy To Read Version In front of the Most Holy Place, was the main part of the temple. This room was 40 cubits [41] long. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The [rest of the] house, that is, the temple in front of the Holy of Holies, was forty cubits long. American Standard Version (1901) And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle, was forty cubits long. Common English Bible In front of this, the main hall was sixty feet. Catholic Public Domain Version And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the temple itself before the doors of the oracle was forty cubits long. |
They built a room 20 cubits [40] long deep inside the back part of the temple. They covered the walls in this room with cedar boards. The cedar boards went from the floor to the ceiling. This room was called the Most Holy Place.
They covered the walls in this room with cedar boards—none of the stones in the walls could be seen. They carved pictures of flowers and gourds [42] into the cedar.
Solomon put panels made of cypress wood on the walls of the larger room. Then he put pure gold over the cypress panels. And he put pictures of palm trees and chains on the pure gold.
The door was 10 cubits {\cf2\super [361]} wide. The sides of the doorway were 5 cubits {\cf2\super [362]} on each side. The man measured that room. It was 40 cubits {\cf2\super [363]} long, and 20 cubits {\cf2\super [364]} wide.