John Gill's Exposition on 1 Kings 6:21

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold, etc.] The inside of the holy of holies with fine gold, which gold amounted to six hundred talents, (<140308>2 Chronicles 3:8); and these to 7,332,000 ducats of gold, or 3,045,000 pounds sterling: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; between the holy and the most holy, and were instead of a vail in the tabernacle of Moses between them; here was also a vail beside the partition made by chains of gold across the oracle; for the partition was a wall of the thickness of a cubit, as Maimonides f102 says; and in (<140314>2 Chronicles 3:14) express mention is made of a vail of blue, etc. and in imitation of this had the Heathens their deities within vails f103: and he overlaid it with gold; the partition wall.

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