King James Version
1 Kings 6:19 in the King James Version says “And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.”
1 Kings 6:19 · KJV
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. knops: or, gourds open: Heb. openings of
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
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. pure: Heb. shut up
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“he prepared”
H3559properly, to be erect (i.e., stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix,
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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