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1 Kings 6:17

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And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

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  1. 1 Kings 6:15

    And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

  2. 1 Kings 6:16

    And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.

  3. 1 Kings 6:18

    And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

  4. 1 Kings 6:19

    And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.