1 Kings 6:19

6:19 He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord could be placed there.

1 Kings 6:23

6:23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubs of olive wood; each stood 15 feet ¹  high.

1 Kings 6:31

6:31 He made doors of olive wood at the entrance to the inner sanctuary; the pillar on each doorpost was five-sided. ² 

1 Kings 6:5

6:5 He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it. ³ 

1 Kings 6:16

6:16 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. ⁴  He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters. ⁵ 

1 Kings 6:20-22

6:20 The inner sanctuary was 30 feet ⁶  long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He plated it with gold, ⁷  as well as the cedar altar. ⁸  6:21 Solomon plated the inside of the temple with gold. ⁹  He hung golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary and plated the inner sanctuary ¹⁰  with gold. 6:22 He plated the entire inside of the temple with gold, as well as the altar inside the inner sanctuary. ¹¹ 

1 Kings 7:49

7:49 the pure gold lampstands at the entrance to the inner sanctuary (five on the right and five on the left), the gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs,

1 Kings 8:6

8:6 The priests brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its assigned ¹²  place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubs.

1 Kings 8:8

8:8 The poles were so long their ends were visible from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point. ¹³  They have remained there to this very day.

[6:23]  ¹ tn Heb “ten cubits” (a cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm).

[6:31]  ¹ tn Heb “the pillar, doorposts, a fifth part” (the precise meaning of this description is uncertain).

[6:5]  ¹ tn Heb “and he built on the wall of the temple an extension all around, the walls of the temple all around, for the main hall and for the holy place, and he made side rooms all around.”

[6:16]  ¹ tn Heb “He built twenty cubits from the rear areas of the temple with cedar planks from the floor to the walls, and he built it on the inside for an inner sanctuary, for a holy place of holy places.”

[6:16]  ² tc The MT has קְלָעִים (qÿla’im, “curtains”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.

[6:20]  ¹ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (this measurement occurs three times in this verse).

[6:20]  ² tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).

[6:20]  ³ tn Heb “he plated [the] altar of cedar.”

[6:21]  ¹ tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).

[6:21]  ² tn Heb “it.”

[6:22]  ¹ tn Heb “all the temple he plated with gold until all the temple was finished; and the whole altar which was in the inner sanctuary he plated with gold.”

[8:6]  ¹ tn The word “assigned” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[8:8]  ¹ tn Heb “they could not be seen outside.”