Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The meaning is, that at the distance of 20 cubits, measured along the side walls of the house from the end wall, Solomon constructed a partition, which reached from the floor to the ceiling and had a doorway in it. He thus made within the house, a sanctuary for a holy of holies.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 6:16:
1 Kings 6:9
1 Kings 6:15
Psalms 28:2
Ezekiel 41:16
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