1 Kings 6:21
Good News Translation
The inside of the Temple was covered with gold, and gold chains were placed across the entrance of the inner room, which was also covered with gold.

New Revised Standard Version
Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold, then he drew chains of gold across, in front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.

New American Bible
Solomon covered the interior of the house with pure gold, and he drew golden chains across in front of the inner sanctuary, and covered it with gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of gold.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of gold.

overlaid

Exodus 26:29,32 The boards also themselves thou shalt overlay with gold, and shalt cast rings of gold to be set upon them, for places for the bars to hold together the boardwork: which bars thou shalt cover with plates of gold. . . .

Exodus 36:34 And the boards themselves he overlaid with gold casting for them sockets of silver. And their rings he made of gold, through which the bars might be drawn: and he covered the bars themselves with plates of gold.

2 Chronicles 3:7-9 And the gold of the plates with which he overlaid the house, and the beams thereof, and the posts, and the walls, and the doors was of the finest: and he graved cherubims on the walls. . . .

by the chains

1 Kings 6:5 And upon the wall of the temple, he built floors round about, in the walls of the house, round about the temple and the oracle, and he made chambers in the sides round about.

Exodus 26:32,33 And thou shalt hang it up before four pillars of setim wood, which themselves also shall be overlaid with gold, and shall have heads of gold, but sockets of silver. . . .

2 Chronicles 3:14-16 He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk: and wrought in it cherubims. . . .

Context
The Temple's Interior
20Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered it, and overlaid it with most pure gold. And the altar also he covered with cedar. 21And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of gold.22And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with gold: the whole altar of the oracle he covered also with gold.…
Cross References
1 Kings 6:20
Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered it, and overlaid it with most pure gold. And the altar also he covered with cedar.

1 Kings 6:22
And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with gold: the whole altar of the oracle he covered also with gold.

1 Kings 6:20
Top of Page
Top of Page