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1 Kings 6:19

And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner part, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Altar;   Temple;   Thompson Chain Reference - Holy;   Solomon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Oracle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Temple, Solomon's;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Porch;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Jerusalem;   Palm Tree;   Solomon;   Temple;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Oracle;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ark of the Covenant;   Temple;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Engraving and Engravers;   Solomon;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple to put the ark of the Lord’s covenant there.
Hebrew Names Version
He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
King James Version
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord .
English Standard Version
The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord .
New Century Version
Solomon prepared the inner room at the back of the Temple to keep the Ark of the Agreement with the Lord .
New English Translation
He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord could be placed there.
Amplified Bible
Then he prepared the Holy of Holies within the house in order to put the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
New American Standard Bible
Then he prepared an inner sanctuary inside the house in order to place there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also he prepared the place of the oracle in the mids of the house within, to set the Arke of the couenant of the Lord there.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then he prepared an inner sanctuary within the house in order to place there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.
Contemporary English Version
The sacred chest was kept in the most holy place.
Complete Jewish Bible
In the inner part of the house he set up the sanctuary, so that the ark for the covenant of Adonai could be placed there.
Darby Translation
And he prepared the oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Solomon finished the inner room in the back part of the Temple. This room was for the Box of the Lord 's Agreement.
George Lamsa Translation
And the holy place he made in the inner part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
Good News Translation
In the rear of the Temple an inner room was built, where the Lord 's Covenant Box was to be placed.
Lexham English Bible
Now in the inner sanctuary in the middle of the temple he prepared the inside to place the ark of the covenant of Yahweh there.
Literal Translation
And he prepared the Holy of Holies in the midst of the house, to place the ark of the covenant of Jehovah there.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for the quere, he prepared it on the ynsyde of the house, that the Arke of the couenaunt of the LORDE might be set therin.
American Standard Version
And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the quier that was within the temple he prepared, to set there the arke of the appoyntment of the Lorde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he prepared the Sanctuary in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
And the Oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And on the heads of the pillars he made lily-work against the porch, of four cubits,
English Revised Version
And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Salomon made Goddis answeryng place in the myddis of the hows, in the ynnere part, that he schulde sette there the arke of boond of pees of the Lord.
Young's Literal Translation
And the oracle in the midst of the house within he hath prepared, to put there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.
Update Bible Version
And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house inside, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
World English Bible
He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.
New King James Version
And he prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple, to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
New Living Translation
He prepared the inner sanctuary at the far end of the Temple, where the Ark of the Lord 's Covenant would be placed.
New Life Bible
Then he built the most holy place inside the house, in which to put the special box of the agreement.
New Revised Standard
The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the shrine in the midst of the house within, made he ready, - for placing there, the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.
Revised Standard Version
The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
THE MESSAGE
The Inner Sanctuary within The Temple was for housing the Chest of the Covenant of God. This Inner Sanctuary was a cube, thirty feet each way, all plated with gold. The Altar of cedar was also gold-plated. Everywhere you looked there was pure gold: gold chains strung in front of the gold-plated Inner Sanctuary—gold everywhere—walls, ceiling, floor, and Altar. Dazzling!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then he prepared an inner sanctuary within the house in order to place there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

Contextual Overview

15 And he built the walls of the house on the inside, with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the top of the walls, and to the roofs, he covered it with boards of cedar on the inside: and he covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. 16 And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at the hinder part of the temple, from the floor to the top: and made the inner house of the oracle to be the holy of holies. 17 And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits long. 18 And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought, and carvings projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could be seen in the wall at all. 19 And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner part, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord. 20 Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered it, and overlaid it with most pure gold. And the altar also he covered with cedar. 21 And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of gold. 22 And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with gold: the whole altar of the oracle he covered also with gold. 23 And he made in the oracle two cherubims of olive tree, of ten cubits in height. 24 One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the cherub was five cubits: that is, in all ten cubits, from the extremity of one wing to the extremity of the other wing.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the oracle: 1 Kings 6:5, 1 Kings 6:16, 2 Chronicles 4:20, Psalms 28:2

to set: 1 Kings 8:6-10, Exodus 40:20, Exodus 40:21, 2 Chronicles 5:7, Hebrews 9:3, Hebrews 9:4

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 28:11 - the place 2 Chronicles 3:8 - the most holy 2 Chronicles 29:16 - the inner part

Cross-References

Genesis 6:2
The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.
Genesis 6:3
And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:8
But Noe found grace before the Lord.
Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God.
Genesis 6:15
And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Genesis 6:16
Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish the top of it: and the door of the ark thou shalt set in the side: with lower, middle chambers, and third stories shalt thou make it.
Genesis 8:17
All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply upon it.
Psalms 36:6
(35-7) Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great deep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the oracle he prepared in the house within,.... In the innermost part of the house he fitted up the oracle, or speaking place, from whence the Lord spake and gave answer, to receive what was to be put into it: particularly

to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord; even the very same that Moses made, Exodus 37:1, for which David had pitched a tent in Zion, 1 Chronicles 15:1, and where it now was; for Solomon made no new ark.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 6:19. The oracle he prepared — See the description of the temple at the end of this chapter. 1 Kings 6:38.


 
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