Discovery Box1 Kings 6:15-17 
Context6:15 He constructed the walls inside the temple with cedar planks; he paneled the inside with wood from the floor of the temple to the rafters 1 of the ceiling. He covered the temple floor with boards made from the wood of evergreens. 6:16 He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. 2 He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters. 3 6:17 The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long. 4
1 Kings 6:21-22
Context6:21 Solomon plated the inside of the temple with gold. 5 He hung golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary and plated the inner sanctuary 6 with gold. 6:22 He plated the entire inside of the temple with gold, as well as the altar inside the inner sanctuary. 7
1 tc The MT reads קִירוֹת (qirot, “walls”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.
2 tn Heb “He built twenty cubits from the rear areas of the temple with cedar planks from the floor to the walls, and he built it on the inside for an inner sanctuary, for a holy place of holy places.”
3 tc The MT has קְלָעִים (qÿla’im, “curtains”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.
4 tn Heb “and the house was forty cubits, that is, the main hall before it.”
5 tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).
6 tn Heb “it.”
7 tn Heb “all the temple he plated with gold until all the temple was finished; and the whole altar which was in the inner sanctuary he plated with gold.”
