Rujukan Talmud untuk 1 Raja-raja 6:20: Jerusalem Talmud Bava Batra & Megillah

Rav Hamnuna the scribe asked Rebbi Ḥanina: One verse says, “its height thirty cubits,⁴⁵1K. 6:2.” and another verse says, “its height twenty cubits.⁴⁶1K. 6:20.” He had never heard this and they could not answer him anything. He asked Rebbi Jeremiah, who told him, from the ground up thirty cubits, from the inner room up twenty cubits. Rebbi Abbahu said, destroy the inner room⁴⁷The explanation given by R. Jeremiah is impossible; the inner room (the Holiest of Holies) was level with the Temple hall.! The inner room was standing from the ground to the beams, as it is written, “covered with cedar from the ground to the beams.⁴⁸There is no such verse. A close verse is 1K. 7:7, “covered with cedar from ground to ground,” but it refers to Solomon’s court, not the Temple. Possibly the reference is to 1K. 6:16: “He built twenty cubits from the side of the Temple cedar siding from the ground to the walls,” meaning that walls were constructed differently above and below twenty cubits’ height.” But from the ground up thirty cubits, from the Cherub up twenty cubits. Rebbi Tanḥuma said, it is an aggadic tradition that the space in the inner room not be counted. Rebbi Levi said, the space occupied by the Ark is not counted⁴⁹What he wants to say is that the bodies of the Cherubim were not counted since v. 24 states that each wing of the Cherubim was 5 cubits, and v. 27 that the total span from one extreme wingtip to the other was 20 cubits, leaving no room for the bodies of the Cherubim.. Rebbi Levi said, and it was stated in the name of Rebbi Jehudah ben Rebbi Illai, the Ark stands in the middle and divides the room, ten cubits in every direction of the compass.

It was also taught: The ark that Moses made had round it an [empty] space of ten cubits on every side. And it is written, “And in front of the Sanctuary was twenty cubits in length [and twenty cubits in breadth],” (I Kings 6:20) and it is also written, “And the wing of the one cherub was ten cubits and the wing of the other cherub was ten cubits” (based on I Kings 6:24-25). Where then was the ark itself? Rather derive from this that it stood [without occupying any room].