15 Then he (A)built the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the [a]ceiling he overlaid the walls on the inside with wood, and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress. 16 (B)He built twenty cubits on the rear part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the [b]ceiling; he built them for it on the inside as an inner sanctuary, even as (C)the most holy place. 17 The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty [c]cubits long.

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  1. 1 Kings 6:15 Lit walls of ceiling
  2. 1 Kings 6:16 Lit walls
  3. 1 Kings 6:17 I.e. One cubit equals approx 18 in.

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