---
title: "1 Kings 6:16-17 KJV - \"And he built twenty cubits on the side...\" | Real Bible Believers"
description: "\"And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it\" — Read 1 Kings 6:16-17 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon."
image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg"
url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-kings/6/16-17"
---

[ Read](/kjv/1-kings/6)[ Commentary](/study/1-kings/6)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/1-kings/6) Audio

## 1 Kings 6:16-17 in Context (Verses 13–20 KJV)
 
 [13 ](/kjv/1-kings/6/13) And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/1-kings/6/14) So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/1-kings/6/15) And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: *and* he covered *them* on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.*
 
 [16 ](/kjv/1-kings/6/16) And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built *them* for it within, *even* for the oracle, *even* for the most holy *place*.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/1-kings/6/17) And the house, that *is*, the temple before it, was forty cubits *long*.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/1-kings/6/18) And the cedar of the house within *was* carved with knops and open flowers: all *was* cedar; there was no stone seen.**
 
 [19 ](/kjv/1-kings/6/19) And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/1-kings/6/20) And the oracle in the forepart *was* twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and *so* covered the altar *which was of* cedar.*
 
[1 Kings 5](/kjv/1-kings/5) [1 Kings 7](/kjv/1-kings/7)

```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-kings/6/16-17#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-kings/6/16-17#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-kings/6/16-17","name":"1 Kings 6:16-17 KJV - \"And he built twenty cubits on the side...\" | Real Bible Believers","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-kings/6/16-17#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"\"And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it\" — Read 1 Kings 6:16-17 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-kings/6/16-17#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-kings/6/16-17"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-kings/6/16-17#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv","name":"KJV Bible"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-kings","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-kings","name":"1 Kings"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-kings/6","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-kings/6","name":"6"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-kings/6/16-17","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-kings/6/16-17","name":"Verse 16-17"}}]},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","width":512,"height":512},"logo":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo"},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/RBiblebeliever","https://www.facebook.com/RBibleBelievers"]}]}
```