1 Kings 6:28

The Darby Translation

And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

Hebrew Names Version
He overlaid the Keruvim with gold.

King James Version
And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.

English Standard Version
And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.

New Century Version
These two creatures were covered with gold.

New English Translation
He plated the cherubim with gold.

Amplified Bible
Solomon also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

New American Standard Bible
He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he ouerlaied the Cherubims with golde.

Legacy Standard Bible
He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

Contemporary English Version
The creatures were also covered with gold.

Complete Jewish Bible
He overlaid the k'ruvim with gold.

Easy-to-Read Version
The two Cherub angels were covered with gold.

George Lamsa Translation
And he overlaid the cherubim with pure gold.

Good News Translation
The two winged creatures were covered with gold.

Lexham English Bible
He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

Literal Translation
And he overlaid the cherubs with gold.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he ouerlayed the Cherubins with golde.

American Standard Version
And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.

Bible in Basic English
These winged ones were plated over with gold.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he ouerlayde the Cherubs with golde.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.

King James Version (1611)
And he ouerlayd the Cherubims with golde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And this work of the bases was formed with a border the them, and there was a border between the ledges.

English Revised Version
And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.

Berean Standard Bible
He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he hilide the cherubyns with gold,

Young's Literal Translation
and he overlayeth the cherubs with gold,

Update Bible Version
And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.

World English Bible
He overlaid the cherubim with gold.

New King James Version
Also he overlaid the cherubim with gold.

New Living Translation
He overlaid the two cherubim with gold.

New Life Bible
He covered the cherubim with gold.

New Revised Standard
He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.

Revised Standard Version
And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the walls of the roof; he overlaid [them] on the inside with wood, and overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress. ¹⁶ 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. ¹⁷ And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits [long]. ¹⁸ And the cedar of the house within was carved with colocynths and half-open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. ¹⁹ And he prepared the oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah. ²⁰ And the oracle within was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he overlaid the cedar-wood altar— ²¹ and Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold, and shut off the oracle in front with chains of gold, and overlaid it with gold. ²² And the whole house he overlaid with gold, the whole house entirely; also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold. ²³ And he made in the oracle two cherubim of olive-wood, ten cubits high; ²⁴ and one wing of the cherub was five cubits, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub, ten cubits from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing;

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he overlaid the cherubim with gold. Which may denote the purity and excellency of angels; or the precious gifts and graces of the Spirit, with which the witnesses of Christ are adorned.