1 Kings 6:28
Context6:28 He plated the cherubs with gold.
1 Kings 6:20-22
Context6:20 The inner sanctuary was 30 feet 1 long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He plated it with gold, 2 as well as the cedar altar. 3 6:21 Solomon plated the inside of the temple with gold. 4 He hung golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary and plated the inner sanctuary 5 with gold. 6:22 He plated the entire inside of the temple with gold, as well as the altar inside the inner sanctuary. 6
1 Kings 6:30
Context6:30 He plated the floor of the temple with gold, inside and out. 7
1 Kings 10:18
Context10:18 The king made a large throne decorated with ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
1 Kings 6:35
Context6:35 He carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom and plated them with gold, leveled out over the carvings.
1 Kings 6:15
Context6:15 He constructed the walls inside the temple with cedar planks; he paneled the inside with wood from the floor of the temple to the rafters 8 of the ceiling. He covered the temple floor with boards made from the wood of evergreens.
1 Kings 6:32
Context6:32 On the two doors made of olive wood he carved 9 cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold. 10 He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold. 11


[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”).
[6:22] 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.”
[6:30] 1 sn Inside and out probably refers to the inner and outer rooms within the building.
[6:15] 1 tc The MT reads קִירוֹת (qirot, “walls”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.
[6:32] 1 tn Heb “carved carvings of.”
[6:32] 2 tn Heb “he plated [with] gold” (the precise object is not stated).
[6:32] 3 tn Heb “and he hammered out the gold on the cherubs and the palm trees.”