1 Kings 6:21

So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold ,.... The inside of the holy of holies with fine gold, which gold amounted to six hundred talents, 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 F2 Hilchot Beth Habechirah, c. 4. sect. 2. says; and in 2 Chronicles 3:14 express mention is made of a vail of blue, &c.; and in imitation of this had the Heathens their deities within vails F3 Apulei Metamorph. l. xi. p. 176. :

and he overlaid it with gold ; the partition wall.