World English Bible
1 Kings 6:19
“He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 6
17
The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].
18
There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
19
He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.
20
Within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.
21
So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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