1 Kings 6:22

And the whole house he overlaid with gold [This no mere repetition, more Hebraico, as Bähr and Keil would have us think. Something additional must surely be referred to, and 2 Chronicles 3:4 warrants us in understanding this statement to include the porch, the interior of which was gilded. Because the porch is elsewhere ( 2 Chronicles 3:3 ) distinguished from the "house," it does not follow that it can never be comprehended under that term] until he had finished all the house: also [Heb. and ]. the altar that was by [Heb. to . See on verse 20] the oracle he overlaid with gold.