Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
And he built twenty cubits, at the hinder part of the house, with boards of cedar, from the floor as far as the cross-beams, - and he built it within, for a shrine, even for the holy of holies;
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
Holman Bible
Then he lined 30 feet
International Standard Version
He lined 20 cubits of the rear part of the Temple from floor to ceiling with cedar boards specially constructed for the inside to serve as the Most Holy Place.
A Conservative Version
And 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 inside, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.
American Standard Version
And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor unto the walls of the ceiling : he built them for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.
Amplified
He built twenty cubits on the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling; he built its interior as the [inner] sanctuary, the Holy of Holies.
Bible in Basic English
And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.
Darby Translation
And he built twenty cubits of the innermost part of the house, both floor and walls, with boards of cedar; and he built them for it within, to be the oracle, the most holy place.
Julia Smith Translation
And he will build twenty cubits from the thighs of the house with ribs of cedars, from the bottom even to the walls: and he will build for it from within for the oracle to the holy of holies.
King James 2000
And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it inside, even for the inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He built twenty cubits from the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor up to the ceiling, and he built for it an inner sanctuary on the inside, as the {most holy place}.
Modern King James verseion
And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar. He even built them for it inside, for the sanctuary, for the Holy of Holies.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And he sealed twenty cubits in the end of the temple, both floor and walls, with Cedar, and dressed it within to be the quyre and place most holy.
NET Bible
He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters.
New Heart English Bible
He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling: he built them for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.
Webster
And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
And he buildeth the twenty cubits on the sides of the house with ribs of cedar, from the floor unto the walls; and he buildeth for it within, for the oracle, for the holy of holies.
Themes
Holy of holies » Was called the » Oracle
Kings » Who reigned over all israel » Solomon
Temple » Solomon's » Description of
The First Temple » The oracle or most holy place » Was twenty cubits every way
Interlinear
Banah
Banah
Bayith
Qodesh
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Kings 6:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Solomon Builds The Temple For Yahweh
15 and he built the walls of the house on the inside, with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house, unto the cross-beams of the ceiling, he overlaid it with wood, on the inside, - and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of fir. 16 And he built twenty cubits, at the hinder part of the house, with boards of cedar, from the floor as far as the cross-beams, - and he built it within, for a shrine, even for the holy of holies; 17 but, forty cubits, was the house itself, - the same, was the temple, before the oracle.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:6
So the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh into its place, into the shrine of the house, into the holy of holies, - under the wings of the cherubim.
2 Chronicles 3:8
And he made the most holy house, the length whereof, was, according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and, the breadth thereof, twenty cubits, - and he covered it with fine gold, to the number of six hundred talents;
Leviticus 16:2
And Yahweh said unto Moses - Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he do not come at all times into the holy place, within the veil, - into the presence of the propitiatory, which is upon the ark, so shall he not die, for, in the cloud, will I appear upon the propitiatory.
Hebrews 9:3
But, after the second veil, a tent, that which is called Most Holy:
Ezekiel 45:3
And out of this measure, shalt thou measure, a length of five and twenty thousand and a breadth of ten thousand, - and therein, shall be the sanctuary, the holy of holies:
Exodus 25:21-22
And thou shalt put the propitiatory upon the ark above, - and in the ark, shalt thou put the testimony, which I will give unto thee.
Exodus 26:23
And, two boards, shalt thou make, for the comers of the habitation, - in the hinderpart:
Exodus 26:33-34
And thou shalt hang up the veil under the clasps, - and shalt bring in thither, within the veil the ark of the testimony; and the veil shall make a division for you between the holy place and the most holy.
1 Kings 6:5
And he built - by the wall of the house - a gallery, round about, against the walls of the house, round about, both to the temple, and to the shrine, - and he made side chambers round about.
1 Kings 6:19-20
And, the shrine in the midst of the house within, made he ready, - for placing there, the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.