The Temple’s Interior
1 Kings 6:21
In 11 translations
- BSB
- So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.Or made gold chains to draw (the curtains)
- KJV
- So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
- WEB
- So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold. He drew chains of gold across before the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.
- ASV
- 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.
- LSV
- And Solomon overlays the house within with gold refined, and causes [it] to pass over in chains of gold before the oracle, and overlays it with gold.
- YLT
- And Solomon overlayeth the house within with gold refined, and causeth [it] to pass over in chains of gold before the oracle, and overlayeth it with gold.
- DBY
- and Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold, and shut off the oracle in front with chains of gold, and overlaid it with gold.
- DRC
- And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of gold.
- GNV
- So Salomon couered the house within with pure golde: and he shut the place of the oracle with chaines of gold, and couered it with golde.
- JPS
- So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold; and he drew chains of gold across the wall before the Sanctuary; and he overlaid it with gold.
- LXXE
- in front of the oracle, and covered it with gold.
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- Written (Ketiv): בְּרַתִּיקוֹת (“with chains of”). Read aloud (Qere): בְּרַתּוּק֤וֹת (“with chains of”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
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- Leningrad Codex reads בְּרַתּיּק֤וֹת; read aloud (Qere) reads בְּרַתּוּק֤וֹת (“with chains of”).
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַיְצַ֨ף שְׁלֹמֹ֧ה אֶת־הַבַּ֛יִת מִפְּנִ֖ימָה זָהָ֣ב סָג֑וּר וַיְעַבֵּ֞ר ברתיקות זָהָב֙ לִפְנֵ֣י הַדְּבִ֔יר וַיְצַפֵּ֖הוּ זָהָֽב׃Read aloud as (qere): בְּרַתּוּק֤וֹת
- LXX-Br
- κατὰ πρόσωπον τοῦ δαβὶρ, καὶ περιέσχεν αὐτὸ χρυσίῳ.
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- Exodus 36:34And he overlaid the frames with gold and made gold rings to hold the crossbars. He also overlaid the crossbars with gold.
- 2 Chronicles 3:14–16He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it. In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top…
- 2 Chronicles 3:7–9He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls. Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty…
- Exodus 26:29Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.
- 1 Kings 6:5Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
- Exodus 26:32–33Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood, overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases. And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will…
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