| Verse | Translation | Text |
| 1Ki 6:22 | Strong Concordance | And the whole house [01004] he overlaid [06823] with gold [02091], until he had finished [08552] all the house [01004]: also the whole altar [04196] that was by the oracle [01687] he overlaid [06823] with gold [02091]. |
| King James | And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The lavish use of the precious metals in ornamentation was a special feature if early Oriental architecture. Recent researches have given reason to believe that two stages of the great temple at Borsippa - now known as the Bits Nimrud - had respectively a gold and a silver coating. |