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1 Kings 6:19

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

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  1. 1 Kings 6:17

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

  2. 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.

  3. 1 Kings 6:20

    And the oracle in the forepart 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 so covered the altar which was of cedar.

  4. 1 Kings 6:21

    So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.

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