1 Kings 6:20 meaning and explanation
The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
1 Kings 6:20, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator describes Solomon’s construction of the temple in the fourth year of his reign, and here measures the inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place, as a perfect cube of twenty cubits. This innermost room would house the ark of the covenant, and the gold overlay marked it as the most sacred space, set apart for the presence of God.
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