John Gill Commentary 1 Kings 6:21

"So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold." — 1 Kings 6:21 (ASV)

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 says; and in (2 Chronicles 3:14) express mention is made of a vail of blue and in imitation of this had the Heathens their deities within vails ^F3 :

and he overlaid it with gold ;
the partition wall.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F2: Hilchot Beth Habechirah, c. 4. sect. 2.
• F3: Apulei Metamorph. l. xi. p. 176.