15 And built the walls of the house within, with boards of Cedar tree from the pavement of the house unto [a]the walls of the ceiling, and within he covered them with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

16 And he built twenty cubits in the sides of the house with boards of Cedar, from the floor to the walls, and he prepared a place within it for the oracle, even the most holy place.

17 But the [b]house, that is, the Temple before it, was forty cubits long.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:15 Meaning, unto the roof which was also ceiled.
  2. 1 Kings 6:17 For when he spake of the house in the first verse, he meant both the Oracle, and the Temple.

15 He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling,(A) and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper.(B) 16 He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.(C) 17 The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits[a] long.

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  1. 1 Kings 6:17 That is, about 60 feet or about 18 meters