Kings I 6:17

17 And these the golden emerods which the lords of the Philistines gave as a trespass-offering to the Lord; for Azotus one, for Gaza one, for Ascalon one, for Geth one, for Accaron one.

Kings I 6:17 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 6:17

And the house, that [is], the temple before it
The holy place, which was before the of holies:

was forty cubits [long];
and which, with the most holy place, being twenty cubits, as in the preceding verse, made the length of the whole house sixty cubits, as in ( 1 Kings 6:2 ) .

Kings I 6:17 In-Context

15 And the Levites brought up the ark of the Lord, and the coffer with it, and the golden articles upon it, and placed them on the great stone, and the men of Baethsamys offered whole-burnt-offerings and meat offerings on that day to the Lord.

16 And the five lords of the Philistines saw, and returned to Ascalon in that day.

17 And these the golden emerods which the lords of the Philistines gave as a trespass-offering to the Lord; for Azotus one, for Gaza one, for Ascalon one, for Geth one, for Accaron one.

18 And the golden mice according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines, belonging to the five lords, from the fenced city to the village of the Pherezite, and to the great stone, on which they placed the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that was in the field of Osee the Baethsamysite.

19 And the sons of Jechonias were not pleased with the men of Baethsamys, because they saw the ark of the Lord; and smote among them seventy men, and fifty thousand men: and the people mourned, because the Lord had inflicted on the people, a very great plague.