Parallel Verses English Standard Version The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub. King James Bible The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. American Standard Version The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. Douay-Rheims Bible That is to say, one cherub was ten cubits high, and in like manner the other cherub. English Revised Version The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. Webster's Bible Translation The hight of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. 1 Kings 6:26 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament"And the interior of the hinder room was twenty cubits the length, twenty cubits the breadth, and twenty cubits its height." The word לפני I agree with Kimchi in regarding as the construct state of the noun לפנים, which occurs again in 1 Kings 6:29 in the sense of the inner part or interior, as is evident from the antithesis לחיצום (on the outside). "And he overlaid it with fine gold." סגוּר זהב ( equals סגור equals ( ז in Job 28:15) unquestionably signifies fine or costly gold, although the derivation of this meaning is still questionable; viz., whether it is derived from סגר in the sense of to shut up, i.e., gold shut up or carefully preserved, after the analogy of כּתם; or is used in the sense of taking out or selecting, i.e., gold selected or pure; or in the sense of closed, i.e., gold selected or pure; or in the sense of closed, i.e., gold condensed or unadulterated (Frst and Delitzsch on Job 28:15). The Most Holy Place had therefore the form of a perfect cube in the temple as well as in the tabernacle, only on an enlarged scale. Now, as the internal elevation of the house, i.e., of the whole of the temple-house, the hinder portion of which formed the Most Holy Place, was thirty cubits, there was a space of about ten cubits in height above the Most Holy Place and below the roof of the temple-house for the upper rooms mentioned in 2 Chronicles 3:9, on the nature and purpose of which nothing is said in the two accounts. (Note: This upper room does not presuppose, however, that the party wall, which follows as a matter of course from 1 Kings 6:16, was not merely a cedar wall, but a wall two cubits thick. The supposed difficulty of setting up a cedar wall thirty cubits high is not so great as to necessitate assumptions opposed to the text. For we cannot possibly see why it could not have been made secure "without injuring the temple wall." The wood panelling must have been nailed firmly to the wall without injuring the wall itself; and therefore this could be done just as well in the case of the cedar beams or boards of the party wall.) "And he overlaid (clothed) the altar with cedar wood." There is something very striking in the allusion to the altar in this passage, since the verse itself treats simply of the Most Holy Place; and still more striking is the expression לדּביר אשׁר המּזבּח, "the altar belonging to the Debir," in 1 Kings 6:22, since there was no altar in the Most Holy Place. We cannot remove the strangeness of these sentences by such alterations as Thenius and Bttcher propose, because the alterations suggested are much too complicated to appear admissible. The allusion to the altar in both these verses is rather to be explained from the statements in the Pentateuch as to the position of the altar of incense; viz., Exodus 30:6, "Thou shalt place it before the curtain, which is above the ark of the testimony before the capporeth over the testimony;" and Exodus 40:5, "before the ark of the testimony;" whereby this altar, although actually standing "before the inner curtain," i.e., in the Holy Place, according to Exodus 40:26, was placed in a closer relation to the Most Holy Place than the other two things which were in the Holy Place. The clothing of the altar with cedar presupposes that it had a heart of stone; and the omission of the article before מזבּח may be explained on the ground that it is mentioned here for the first time, just as in 1 Kings 6:16, where דּביר was first mentioned, it had no article. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Cross References 1 Kings 6:25 The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form. 1 Kings 6:27 He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house. And the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house. Jump to Previous Cherub Cubit Cubits Height High Hight Second TenJump to Next Cherub Cubit Cubits Height High Hight Second TenLinks 1 Kings 6:26 NIV1 Kings 6:26 NLT 1 Kings 6:26 ESV 1 Kings 6:26 NASB 1 Kings 6:26 KJV 1 Kings 6:26 Bible Apps 1 Kings 6:26 Biblia Paralela 1 Kings 6:26 Chinese Bible 1 Kings 6:26 French Bible 1 Kings 6:26 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |