Holy Scripture

1 Kings 6:34

A church father on this verse
“Just as the entrance to the inner sanctuary by which one reached the ark of the Lord and the cherubim signifies the entrance to the kingdom of heaven whereby we hope and desire to be introduced to the vision of our Creator and the heavenly citizens, so the entrance into the temple shows in type the beginnings of our l…”
Bede, 8th c. — Of the Temple of Solomon 1.16.4

Source: Septuagint

Original

34In both the doors were planks of fir; the one door had two leaves and their hinges, and the other door had two leaves and turned on hinges,

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— 1 Kings 6:34 —

35being carved with cherubs, and there were palm trees and open flower leaves, and it was overlaid with gold gilded upon the engraving.

36And he built the inner court, three rows of hewn stones, and a row of wrought cedar round about, a and he made the curtain of the court of the porch of the house that was in front of the temple.

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